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I've decided to use it as my main storage for my project.
But honestly I wouldn't know, my project involves storing (in awhile) hundreds of thousands of PDF documents. They're like half a MB each.
Actually, @huymike00 - here's a discord with some Cloudflare folks hanging around with chats for the different products, ask there and you'll get a correct answer: https://discord.gg/cloudflaredev
1. It’s very very rarely
2. And/or you’d then only need to restore some smaller specific files
You're right, if it's for backups and you have a good setup (the need to restore is very unlikely) or for backups of backups, S3 DG can be way cheaper than Scaleway, and it data is replicated in 3 DC as I understand it, vs only one with Scaleway (but their setup seems pretty solid).
Yep, but these can be pretty cheap with S3 if you use the right software for your backups (that way you don't upload many small files).
Understand the issue here... I don't need lage storage but need hugh BW and CPU. As long as Im using s3 it's ok so far. But when I shifted to dedicated server my server gets overloads.. I even used server with 96GB RAM and results slow speed to completly no downloading.. That's why I moved to s3 in the first place.
Thanks, @emgh .
Fully agree.
No problem!
contabo offers $12 for 1TB.
Im talking ti Terrahost if they allow me some discounts I may move.
Don't bother with contabo object storage, it's really bad
You downloading enough to justify such a high price compared to like B2?
You should check contabo object storage limit at https://docs.contabo.com/docs/products/Object-Storage/technical-description/
Dumb question i am sure but is S3 only used for backups or do businesses use it for live files, etc? If so - what client is run on the desktop and I assume nothing is stored locally? I use S3 alot but it's always for backups but then it occurred to me perhaps people use this for shared data access somehow although I don't understand how locking/collisions/etc are handled if it's used in this manner.
I've used StorJ, idrive, S3, Minio but it never once occured to me to use this in a file explorer type manner.
Thanks
Why only backups? You can use S3 for anything. User uploads, image storage, video storage, linux iso storage, you can store basically anything on S3 & easily retrieve it again.
Yep, S3 is highly reliable and performant. I've seen custom databases built on top of it & APIs backed by data stored in S3 (user makes request, file is read from S3, munged and data returned by the user).
It's less common for businesses to use it as a file sharing mechanism I'd say. Nextcloud backed via S3, google drive, dropbox, sharepoint, onedrive, etc are more likely to be used for sharing documents.
Just treat it like a piece of infrastructure, like you would a database, load balancer, etc
I am using storj since 6months+ but with s3, uploading files 1gb+ per file without issues, S3 is a pretty good tool to sync, upload and control files easily.
Edit: Oh no! just noticed they have changed their free tier limit from 150/150 to 25/25
thanks - is there client software you recommend?
rclone's S3 backend is useful, you can mount S3 locally, clone things, etc. Other than that, lots of software comes with s3 configurations already, which you can use.
what is icloud e2?
thx
Possibly meant idrive e2.
I've been using them for about 5 months for my object storage for mastodon instance. Works nicely so far for the price.
It seems the answer to OP's question is iDrive e2 for kind of hot storage. They cost $4/TB when paid monthly and $3.33/TB when paid yearly, first year being $0.33/TB.
There doesn’t seem to be anything that beats their pricing in the market right now. It's awfully cheap tbh. Almost as cheap as cold storage. Although their egress policy makes it more like a cold storage actually since you can’t download much and there’s no option to pay for egress if I'm not mistaken.
I wonder if they’re making any profit with these pricing.
Would you guys prefer something that is as cheap as $4/TB but you can only download what you uploaded and no ability to download more even if you're willing to pay for it
OR would you prefer something between $5-7/TB but you have the ability to download as much as you want as long as you pay the same amount per TB or maybe even a little less in egress fees
OR another option is to pay $7-10/TB with unlimited ingress/egress? (this last option is imaginary at this moment since there's no provider like that)
If your use case exceeds the guidelines of our free egress policy, we reserve the right to charge $0.01/GB/Month.Oh I didn’t see that. It doesn’t look too bad after all I guess.
https://www.idrive.com/object-storage-e2/faq-account-management#egress-policy
Great for backup, cheap and fast.
Well, I just read this and honestly, it is great for everything. Seems like nothing beats their pricing and download limit of thrice the stored data is extremely generous.
Great for everything? that's great! and how about backblaze b2?
B2 is also a great option but at this point I don’t see a reason to use them over e2 while you can get the same performance for less money.
Whats your CF rules? please share
Also if anyone wants to use an Object Storage as a CDN or with unlimited egress, you can use Scaleway’s S3 with reverse proxy.
They have a tutorial here; https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/tutorials/setup-nginx-reverse-proxy-s3/
This basically gives unlimited egress for free but you’re limited to cloud instance’s bandwidth which is 100mbps on their cheapest plan. It is unlimited though.
Nothing major.
I don't think these rules are too complex for a single person to find out if they already have mastodon up and running, but anyways, here they are:
Which cost you around $20PM extra with you S3
in my case for other people might work
You can use Cloudflare to cache stuff and take a lot of load out off your instance.