MinIO is now in maintenance-mode • Hacker News Board

A lot of them actually. Ceph personally I've used. But there's a ton, some open source, some paid. Backblaze has a product Buckets or something. Dell powerscale. Cloudian has one. Nutanix has one.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by bananapub » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:30 PM UTC

for those looking for a simple and reliable self hosted S3 thing, check out Garage . it's much simpler - no web ui, no fancy RS coding, no VC-backed AI company, just some french nerds making a very solid tool.

fwiw while they do produce Docker containers for it, it's also extremely simple to run without that - it's a single binary and running it with systemd is unsurprisingly simple[1].

0: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

1: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/cookbook/system...

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by snickell » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:34 PM UTC

Any efforts to consolidate around a community fork yet?

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by 0x073 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:36 PM UTC

ecshafer wrote: post #5

Is this just the open source portion? Minio is now a fully paid product then?

"For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO AIStor."

Probably yes.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by Dachande663 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:36 PM UTC

Does anyone have any recommendations for a simple S3-wrapper to a standard dir? I've got a few apps/services that can send data to S3 (or S3 compatible services) that I want to point to a local server I have, but they don't support SFTP or any of the more "primitive" solutions. I did use a python local-s3 thing, but it was... not good.

Re: MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

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Post by ocdtrekkie » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 4:37 PM UTC

Havoc wrote: post #9

I thought they were pivoting towards close it and trying to monetize this? That got backlash so now it’s just getting dropped entirely? People get to do whatever they want but bit jarring to go from this is worth something people will pay for to maintenance mode in quick succession

They cite a proprietary alternative they offer for enterprises. So yes they pivoted to a monetized offering and are just dropping the open source one.