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Mounting S3 as a filesystem in your VPS for unlimited cheap storage (roettgers.co)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Own hardware is always cheaper in the long run

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

True, but S3 offers you extremely high availability and security for a quite fair price, and not everyone wants to immediately self host on their own hardware.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Cheaper to use Backblaze b2

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Indeed, the article was written with Backblaze B2 as the S3-compatible storage used.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Or Wasabi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I stick data I will almost certainly never access again on glacier deep archive. Dirt cheap. Good place to escrow data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Wasabi have similar pricing to glacier, but without the limitation

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you do if your hardware is housed at home with crappy residential upload speeds?

It’s a genuine question because I’ve settled for hosting on Storj, but because my friends and family can’t be bothered to connect via its client I’m running a WebDAV rclone proxy on a VPS over Tailscale. So not only am I paying for the storage itself, I’m also paying for transferring the data and on top of all that, it defeats the point of Storj being P2P from and end-user perspective.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I got downvoted for this? 😂