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a little Queries Regarding Storage Methods Employed by Image Hosting Websites
I've experimented with object storage solutions like S3 B2, but found both storage costs and the traffic expenses incurred by access to be rather high.
How does everyone else manage their storage? Would Cloudflare R2's traffic costs be lower? (I can't quite make head nor tail of their pricing model.)
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This uncertainty stems entirely from an open-source project I'm building (though I'm a Chinese user, I've implemented proper I18N).
https://44img.com/gallery/1
This is a publicly shared photo album showcasing the features I've developed.
The price of raw HDD storage is roughly the same for everyone.
It increases if you add features, service and marketing like S3, it increases.
Cheap storage you can get from OVH, Hetzner and so on. Here on the board you could get 1TB for 1EUR - KimSufi is almost the same, 9€ server with 3x2TB.
How much space do you need? Is there really a market for free image hosting?
Traffic is free on Backblaze B2 if you proxy it through Cloudflare.
This is precisely my concern: I have two VPS instances with 2TB hard drives each serving as backups, and one VPS with a 10TB hard drive acting as the primary node.
However, as I mentioned, I'm endeavouring to build a fully functional open-source project. Based on my research, support for S3 appears indispensable – though it may well be that people are simply keen to self-host Minio.> @Homwer said:
İf you do enough bandwidth they will ban you. On r2 it's unlimited
minio is dead. The T-800s got to it. There is currently a scramble to find a worthy successor. SeaweedFS looks like the frontrunner for now, a respectable 30k Stars on github, easy setup, etc. The indispensability of S3 APIs is not backed by people's odd desire to selfhost minio; rather, AWS has just amassed an API monopoly thanks, in large part, to lazy corporate devops.
To answer your question. Look at the image uploaders supported by ShareX. Not everyone wants an S3 API. Some people prefer simple CRUD operations on REST.
As for storage. I agree with the guy upthread who said HDD storage is easily had for $1/TB/month especially if you buy at scale. The bigger issue is bandwidth. And even then, the bigger issue is bandwidth to APAC regions if you're looking for edge delivery there. If you don't care about latency (most people interested in open source image hosting likely won't) you can serve off of your Unlimited* Traffic server in NA.
If you need CF, consider scw-elastic metal-titanium, came with 1gbps unmetered