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RIP MinIO
Latest commit on the minio repository added this:
This project is currently under maintenance and is not accepting new changes.
- The codebase is in a maintenance-only state
- No new features, enhancements, or pull requests will be accepted
- Critical security fixes may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis
- Existing issues and pull requests will not be actively reviewed
- Community support continues on a best-effort basis through Slack
For enterprise support and actively maintained versions, please see MinIO AIStor.
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Jump into garage.
It was fast
and predicted
well, luckily their build instruction was straight forward:)
This was obviously going to happen months ago when they removed all the features if you didn't pay.
>start open source project
>it becomes big
>realize you're being paid less for your time than a LET mod
>launch desparate half-assed monetization attempt
>get forked
many such cases
Key difference here is none of the forks really took off. There was an early one (OpenMaxIO) that got a lot of press but the maintainer didn't do anything with it. So MinIO may actually be dead
Are there any companies that actually use their products?
Last time it was $96000/year, now they hide it behind request pricing button.
OpenMaxIO is the WebUI/admin panel fork, nobody use that:) As far as I know there isnt any attempt to make their own popular MinIO fork. Mostly just for bug fix, or feats add then pretty much die out.
Best recommended alternatives for small-scale S3 compatible self-hosted?
96K
Is the project ending or are they just moving to fully closed source that you must pay for?
The pricing of their paid product never really made much sense, the upfront $96k~ (iirc?) and nothing lower than that, which I feel made sense only at the scale of a few PBs of storage, and adding up the costs to colo, buying all that hardware and the minio license cost.. you'd probably be better off just using B2/Wasabi ...
Garage and SeaweedFS seem like popular ones to look at. Garage also has a web UI available via another project.
I had considered trying Garage when the MinUI project started asking users to compile their own. Felt like the writing was in the wall, at least for me as I didn’t want the overhead of compiling the source. However BF I grabbed some S3 object storage from @Onidel and perhaps I won’t bother with running the application layer myself at this point. If I do spin up the garage instance, it might just be academic for now. Lots of positive feedback about Garage but, and the additional Web UI reportedly makes things nice and simple.
Since the last release (Security/CVE RELEASE.2025-10-15T17-29-55Z) they have already implied they are no longer giving a damn about the CE version.
And I have been looking around other S3 software like garage, seaweedfs, rustfs but then I gave up and went to vibe code my own s3 software "a minio clone" given that some of these don't really have the features I needed.
Of course I didn't blindly vibe code - I chose a language I understand which is unfortunately Python so I started coding my s3 software with Python and Flask and customised it according to my needs and my setup.
So far I have managed to have the S3 API basics, replication, and the object browser webui. Fits my needs and I continue to enhance it on the go base on my future needs.
I've moved everything to Garage, they're working perfectly handling few TB of data for my backups.
Kudos to them.
Look at garage, I was skeptical after being on minio for so long. It is neat how they do things. They take care in being easy to manage and great for simple deployments.
Pretty much sums it up - https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4549353/#Comment_4549353