Anyone using storj as aws S3 alternative

WhiteRoseG

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@sillycat said:

@WhiteRoseG said: Because of the egress

Wasabi has no fees for egress.

Don't they have a weird system where you can egress up to the amount you have stored?

Yeah this exactly what I mean they have Al this kind of special things were you have to pay, if you need storage just buy a dedicated server if you need save storage buy 2

At a certain point I agree with this, likely at least 100TB of data (on B2 this would cost $500/mo with 300TB egress + transactions). Beyond that, the cost of buying dedis and maintaining your own storage probably becomes worth it, but potentially not depending on your business.

But for me, yeah, 100TB+, I'd be setting up a SeaweedFS cluster (maybe with super important stuff on tiered storage backed by a S3 provider). At that point you can scale by just adding storage nodes.

My current use case doesn't use lots of storage but does use lots of transactions, hence caching with the data actually being stored in B2.

Yeah this is a nice config. No me neither to be honest I still use my Google business account for cloud storage with rclone works still like a charm.

faleddo

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

But then you have to setup raid, so you lose some space there, have the hassle of losing disks and the hassle of scaling once you've used all the space

I I really don't trust alot of those S3 company's I think if something breaks down your data is gone, see it Manny times on forums.

Curious to know which companies. I'd avoid Wasabi, Storj, DO Spaces and the other random ones, especially contabo. S3, B2 and R2 are likely okay.

Yeah I think you know what I mean also the performance is not that great I have used E2 from a known company I forget the name

Ah yeah, I wouldn't use iDrive E2 either lol

iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.

WhiteRoseG

@faleddo said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

But then you have to setup raid, so you lose some space there, have the hassle of losing disks and the hassle of scaling once you've used all the space

I I really don't trust alot of those S3 company's I think if something breaks down your data is gone, see it Manny times on forums.

Curious to know which companies. I'd avoid Wasabi, Storj, DO Spaces and the other random ones, especially contabo. S3, B2 and R2 are likely okay.

Yeah I think you know what I mean also the performance is not that great I have used E2 from a known company I forget the name

Ah yeah, I wouldn't use iDrive E2 either lol

iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.

Yes, but the others are not cheaper then going dedicated. So I really don't understand why people would buy it. Maybe someone can explain.

bgerard

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

But then you have to setup raid, so you lose some space there, have the hassle of losing disks and the hassle of scaling once you've used all the space

I I really don't trust alot of those S3 company's I think if something breaks down your data is gone, see it Manny times on forums.

Curious to know which companies. I'd avoid Wasabi, Storj, DO Spaces and the other random ones, especially contabo. S3, B2 and R2 are likely okay.

Yeah I think you know what I mean also the performance is not that great I have used E2 from a known company I forget the name

Ah yeah, I wouldn't use iDrive E2 either lol

iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.

Yes, but the others are not cheaper then going dedicated. So I really don't understand why people would buy it. Maybe someone can explain.

Because the cost of doing dedicated properly at scale is quite high. Think how much devops professionals cost. Therefore the point at which it's worth rolling your own does not intersect most peoples use cases. $5/tb for storage isn't that expensive, the real costs are egress and transactions which can be mitigated with caching layers, which is way easier to spin up and maintain. Also allows you to grow without provisioning new hardware.

Compute is cheap, people aren't.

Unless of course you're storing Linux ISOs

WhiteRoseG

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

But then you have to setup raid, so you lose some space there, have the hassle of losing disks and the hassle of scaling once you've used all the space

I I really don't trust alot of those S3 company's I think if something breaks down your data is gone, see it Manny times on forums.

Curious to know which companies. I'd avoid Wasabi, Storj, DO Spaces and the other random ones, especially contabo. S3, B2 and R2 are likely okay.

Yeah I think you know what I mean also the performance is not that great I have used E2 from a known company I forget the name

Ah yeah, I wouldn't use iDrive E2 either lol

iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.

Yes, but the others are not cheaper then going dedicated. So I really don't understand why people would buy it. Maybe someone can explain.

Because the cost of doing dedicated properly at scale is quite high. Think how much devops professionals cost. Therefore the point at which it's worth rolling your own does not intersect most peoples use cases. $5/tb for storage isn't that expensive, the real costs are egress and transactions which can be mitigated with caching layers, which is way easier to spin up and maintain. Also allows you to grow without provisioning new hardware.

Compute is cheap, people aren't.

Unless of course you're storing Linux ISOs

But it's not so hard to set this up yourself why would I hire DevOps if I can do it myself ?

bgerard

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

But then you have to setup raid, so you lose some space there, have the hassle of losing disks and the hassle of scaling once you've used all the space

I I really don't trust alot of those S3 company's I think if something breaks down your data is gone, see it Manny times on forums.

Curious to know which companies. I'd avoid Wasabi, Storj, DO Spaces and the other random ones, especially contabo. S3, B2 and R2 are likely okay.

Yeah I think you know what I mean also the performance is not that great I have used E2 from a known company I forget the name

Ah yeah, I wouldn't use iDrive E2 either lol

iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.

Yes, but the others are not cheaper then going dedicated. So I really don't understand why people would buy it. Maybe someone can explain.

Because the cost of doing dedicated properly at scale is quite high. Think how much devops professionals cost. Therefore the point at which it's worth rolling your own does not intersect most peoples use cases. $5/tb for storage isn't that expensive, the real costs are egress and transactions which can be mitigated with caching layers, which is way easier to spin up and maintain. Also allows you to grow without provisioning new hardware.

Compute is cheap, people aren't.

Unless of course you're storing Linux ISOs

But it's not so hard to set this up yourself why would I hire DevOps if I can do it myself ?

You would if you were a business. People need to be on top of security updates, ensuring the system is running smoothly, handle provisioning of new hardware (what if you spike in load and need an additional 20, 30, 40 tb of storage?), handling edge cases not seen under small use cases.

Personal use cases, sure why not, do whatever. But managing HA clusters of storage machines with an S3 layer on top isn't a "I can do it myself" instead of hiring professionals kind of thing. Unless your business is so so tiny that you may as well use an S3 provider or has such little free cash that you'll likely fail anyway. Remember I'm speaking about hundreds of TB of data here, potentially PBs of data.

WhiteRoseG

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

But then you have to setup raid, so you lose some space there, have the hassle of losing disks and the hassle of scaling once you've used all the space

I I really don't trust alot of those S3 company's I think if something breaks down your data is gone, see it Manny times on forums.

Curious to know which companies. I'd avoid Wasabi, Storj, DO Spaces and the other random ones, especially contabo. S3, B2 and R2 are likely okay.

Yeah I think you know what I mean also the performance is not that great I have used E2 from a known company I forget the name

Ah yeah, I wouldn't use iDrive E2 either lol

iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.

Yes, but the others are not cheaper then going dedicated. So I really don't understand why people would buy it. Maybe someone can explain.

Because the cost of doing dedicated properly at scale is quite high. Think how much devops professionals cost. Therefore the point at which it's worth rolling your own does not intersect most peoples use cases. $5/tb for storage isn't that expensive, the real costs are egress and transactions which can be mitigated with caching layers, which is way easier to spin up and maintain. Also allows you to grow without provisioning new hardware.

Compute is cheap, people aren't.

Unless of course you're storing Linux ISOs

But it's not so hard to set this up yourself why would I hire DevOps if I can do it myself ?

You would if you were a business. People need to be on top of security updates, ensuring the system is running smoothly, handle provisioning of new hardware (what if you spike in load and need an additional 20, 30, 40 tb of storage?), handling edge cases not seen under small use cases.

Personal use cases, sure why not, do whatever. But managing HA clusters of storage machines with an S3 layer on top isn't a "I can do it myself" instead of hiring professionals kind of thing. Unless your business is so so tiny that you may as well use an S3 provider or has such little free cash that you'll likely fail anyway. Remember I'm speaking about hundreds of TB of data here, potentially PBs of data.

I think what you are referring to are not the people on low-end

bgerard

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@bgerard said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

But then you have to setup raid, so you lose some space there, have the hassle of losing disks and the hassle of scaling once you've used all the space

I I really don't trust alot of those S3 company's I think if something breaks down your data is gone, see it Manny times on forums.

Curious to know which companies. I'd avoid Wasabi, Storj, DO Spaces and the other random ones, especially contabo. S3, B2 and R2 are likely okay.

Yeah I think you know what I mean also the performance is not that great I have used E2 from a known company I forget the name

Ah yeah, I wouldn't use iDrive E2 either lol

iDrive E2 is very very slow even in same region. its very recommended. to avoid.

Yes, but the others are not cheaper then going dedicated. So I really don't understand why people would buy it. Maybe someone can explain.

Because the cost of doing dedicated properly at scale is quite high. Think how much devops professionals cost. Therefore the point at which it's worth rolling your own does not intersect most peoples use cases. $5/tb for storage isn't that expensive, the real costs are egress and transactions which can be mitigated with caching layers, which is way easier to spin up and maintain. Also allows you to grow without provisioning new hardware.

Compute is cheap, people aren't.

Unless of course you're storing Linux ISOs

But it's not so hard to set this up yourself why would I hire DevOps if I can do it myself ?

You would if you were a business. People need to be on top of security updates, ensuring the system is running smoothly, handle provisioning of new hardware (what if you spike in load and need an additional 20, 30, 40 tb of storage?), handling edge cases not seen under small use cases.

Personal use cases, sure why not, do whatever. But managing HA clusters of storage machines with an S3 layer on top isn't a "I can do it myself" instead of hiring professionals kind of thing. Unless your business is so so tiny that you may as well use an S3 provider or has such little free cash that you'll likely fail anyway. Remember I'm speaking about hundreds of TB of data here, potentially PBs of data.

I think what you are referring to are not the people on low-end

Yes, indeed.

Why do people use S3 services on lowend? They don't store much data and can therefore benefit from keeping data off their servers, making it easier to switch compute between lowend deals.

Why do people use S3 services on highend? Because it makes financial sense up until a point.

hcea520

@faleddo said:

@shruub said:
I've used it as both backup storage and "CDN" aka just a fediverse file storage. It works pretty well, but, at least for me, the encryption stuff (on the web ui, that is) are really wierd. I use the correct stuff copied from my password manager but it just shows some or none data.

Files are encrypted by passphrase. If you upload files under a passphrase, the files will only show up when you use the same passphrase. The problem is when we forgot the passphrase, then we cant access our files anymore and they dont have “reset passphrase” feature like reset password.

Yeah. But the exact passphrase sometimes doesn't work ¯_(ツ)_/¯

hampered

I have been using Scaleway, but their recent product changes and the removal of a free tier have led me to look elsewhere. I've switched over to Storj and I'm happy. I don't like any object storage providers that charge transactions as I've been burnt with B2 and rclone I think it was in the past, I don't want my backup software running some scan that costs me $$$. I find it annoying to login and then also put an encryption key, but that's the only downside.

owais16

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

bgerard

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

I'm not sure you can actually get a 40tb server for $55. I can see 4x10tb machines on auction for $76 though

lewellyn

I'm actually vaguely curious about this as well: That's the price point where I expect Hetzner to only give 16TB or so.

ehab

@bgerard said:

how is SeaweedFS performance? did you use it for > 3 months with moderate usage?

bgerard

@ehab said:

@bgerard said:

how is SeaweedFS performance? did you use it for > 3 months with moderate usage?

Unfortunately I haven't used it long enough or with enough load to comment. I'd recommend reading their github readme though, it does talk about performance https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

AXYZE

@ehab said:

@bgerard said:

how is SeaweedFS performance? did you use it for > 3 months with moderate usage?

I've used JuiceFS (similar thing to SeaweedFS) long time and its perfect.
https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs

Here's a comparison (It's by JuiceFS so they can ignore some of their drawbacks, but I didnt saw any drawbacks with mixed content - JPEGs, MP4s etc.)
https://juicefs.com/en/blog/engineering/similarities-and-differences-between-seaweedfs-and-juicefs-structures

ehab

@AXYZE said:

never heard of JuiceFS, i will definitely check it.

Thank you and have a nice day
ehab

WhiteRoseG

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

You can filter in the auction server:

€60.70 monthly

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lewellyn

@WhiteRoseG said:

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

You can filter in the auction server:

€60.70 monthly

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But that's 60 euro... Higher than the amount stated earlier in the thread. 60 is a large enough difference to invalidate some of the comparisons made, honestly.

WhiteRoseG

@lewellyn said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

You can filter in the auction server:

€60.70 monthly

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But that's 60 euro... Higher than the amount stated earlier in the thread. 60 is a large enough difference to invalidate some of the comparisons made, honestly.

The prices change daily, so you have to check them on different time thats why its called auction. i see them as low of 45 this is the cheapest now, keep on eye on it.

owais16

@WhiteRoseG said:

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

You can filter in the auction server:

€60.70 monthly

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thanks ill keep it eye on it

lewellyn

@WhiteRoseG said:

@lewellyn said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

You can filter in the auction server:

€60.70 monthly

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But that's 60 euro... Higher than the amount stated earlier in the thread. 60 is a large enough difference to invalidate some of the comparisons made, honestly.

The prices change daily, so you have to check them on different time thats why its called auction. i see them as low of 45 this is the cheapest now, keep on eye on it.

I would posit such variable pricing would make it automatically not-a-contender for many people looking for bulk storage that may need more added in the future.

WhiteRoseG

@lewellyn said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@lewellyn said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

You can filter in the auction server:

€60.70 monthly

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But that's 60 euro... Higher than the amount stated earlier in the thread. 60 is a large enough difference to invalidate some of the comparisons made, honestly.

The prices change daily, so you have to check them on different time thats why its called auction. i see them as low of 45 this is the cheapest now, keep on eye on it.

I would posit such variable pricing would make it automatically not-a-contender for many people looking for bulk storage that may need more added in the future.

You can buy more servers, if you know a place were to buy 40tb for max 60 euros please let me know.

DataMan2024

I've been reviewing this post over the last few days, I have tested many of these services, AWS, backblaze, wasabi, but I have found idrive e2 to work very well and perform with speed, I am not sure what others are saying about it, but works for me.

bgerard

@WhiteRoseG said:

@lewellyn said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@lewellyn said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@owais16 said:

@WhiteRoseG said:

@faleddo said:

@WhiteRoseG said:
S3 expensive, take server or Hetzner storage box

S3 frozen storage is cheap. Its about 1$ for a TB.

You can buy a 40tb server at Hetzner for 55 bucks

can u give me the link which 40tb server at hetzner is avaliable

You can filter in the auction server:

€60.70 monthly

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But that's 60 euro... Higher than the amount stated earlier in the thread. 60 is a large enough difference to invalidate some of the comparisons made, honestly.

The prices change daily, so you have to check them on different time thats why its called auction. i see them as low of 45 this is the cheapest now, keep on eye on it.

I would posit such variable pricing would make it automatically not-a-contender for many people looking for bulk storage that may need more added in the future.

You can buy more servers, if you know a place were to buy 40tb for max 60 euros please let me know.

Gorillaservers will get you a cheaper price per TB but that's buying huge servers, 192TB+. Not sure anyone could beat hetzner auctions except basement hosts on sub 100TB deployments tbh

muddy

@DataMan2024 said:
I've been reviewing this post over the last few days, I have tested many of these services, AWS, backblaze, wasabi, but I have found idrive e2 to work very well and perform with speed, I am not sure what others are saying about it, but works for me.

I have been using iDrive e2 since September of 2023. I use it as a remote backup location for several types of backup files. No issues in my usage so far. I think the complaints that I've seen relate to the fact that it doesn't appear there is any redundancy or other protection in place by iDrive e2 in terms of each individual endpoint. They are likely just large storage servers with some sort of S3 compatible interface. There has been some significant downtime with a few of the locations and iDrive didn't communicate those very well.

In my case, I backup my e2 buckets to a local NAS in my house every 5 minutes, so even if my buckets were to go down, I could spin up new buckets in a different region and upload everything, update my scripts, and could be up and running in a couple of hours.

Their pricing at the time I signed up was quite good (5tb for $100/yr). I think that has increased since then. But, hard to beat, for my needs, at that price.

Moopah

@muddy said:

@DataMan2024 said:
I've been reviewing this post over the last few days, I have tested many of these services, AWS, backblaze, wasabi, but I have found idrive e2 to work very well and perform with speed, I am not sure what others are saying about it, but works for me.

I have been using iDrive e2 since September of 2023. I use it as a remote backup location for several types of backup files. No issues in my usage so far. I think the complaints that I've seen relate to the fact that it doesn't appear there is any redundancy or other protection in place by iDrive e2 in terms of each individual endpoint. They are likely just large storage servers with some sort of S3 compatible interface. There has been some significant downtime with a few of the locations and iDrive didn't communicate those very well.

In my case, I backup my e2 buckets to a local NAS in my house every 5 minutes, so even if my buckets were to go down, I could spin up new buckets in a different region and upload everything, update my scripts, and could be up and running in a couple of hours.

Their pricing at the time I signed up was quite good (5tb for $100/yr). I think that has increased since then. But, hard to beat, for my needs, at that price.

The 5TB for $100/year has increased, you will want to check your renewal price to make sure your next renewal price has not increased.

They are running Minio as the backend