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Affordable S3 Object Storage Selfhost – Pay Monthly – EU/CA Locations
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Just some ideas to recommend if you love selfhosting
Here is my current setup for storage, which is used as a storage node in my proxmox cluster:
A dedicated server from OVH (KS-2), France location. Same config is available in Poland and Canada I think.
16 Cores, 32GB Ram, 4*4TB HDD, 10Gbps Down, unmetered traffic.
I use raid 5 so total 4x3=12TB usable storage, but if you feel brave enough go with raid 0. nothing would go wrong.
Priced at 18.99 Euro, with 20% VAT, that is 22.788 Euro
22.788/12=1.899 per TB per month, 1.899/1024 which is ~0.00185 per GB per month.
Main points:
S3-compatible object storage (Selfhost some software like Garage or MinIO, FREE!)
Pay Monthly or annually billing
Storage only costs ~€0.00185 per GB/month
Additional Outgoing traffic (GB) €0/month
And you get a whole CPU (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU D-1541 @ 2.10GHz) with 32GB DDR4 ECC ram.
Would you pay 64.71 times more expensive for a managed object storage, or selfhost?
Comments
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/217217/affordable-s3-object-storage-pay-as-you-go-eu-us-asia-locations#latest
80€ for 1Tb s3 and 40€ for 1Tb bandwidth
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
Single node, very little redundancy, no durability. YOLO use cases only.
I agree but it's just something fun.
Selfhost cost as you present is $1.899/TB/month, without multi-location replication, limited to 500 Mbps, and most likely running on a single old Kimsufi server.
Also, RAID is generally not the recommended durability model for object storage. Object storage is normally designed around erasure coding, replication, and node-level failure tolerance, not traditional single-node RAID.(because you mentioned minio etc)
Now compare that with a commercial service like SystemFreaks. Using the monthly price for a fair comparison: for $4/TB/month, you get:
1 Gbps speed
3-point replication
A setup designed to tolerate node failures without service interruption or data loss
So the real question is: is the small price difference really worth the self-hosting trouble, reduced speed, and weaker redundancy of an old Kimsufi server?
Ofc don't use this setup for production, but for some personal hosting, I think it's more than enough.
I can see the use case, but even as an individual, I would still want my files properly secured, especially if I had 12 TB of data in the cloud.
The last thing I would want is to replace a failed disk, wait for RAID to resync, or risk losing my data because the setup depends on a single old server.
Fairs.
I personally think Raid5 is enough for an old server.
On my home lab I went with Raid 0 for some storage, with data that is not important.
It really depends on how important that data is
But seriously if this setup works for you i dont see why not!
Wise words said here