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S3 is costly and carries significant political baggage. For a better alternative, run MinIO on a cloud provider of your choice, or stick with a secure option l

by Saphyel 5mo ago

S3 is costly and carries significant political baggage. For a better alternative, run MinIO on a cloud provider of your choice, or stick with a secure option like Proton Drive.

ketzu 5mo ago
> S3 is costly > run MinIO When people say "s3", they mean "any s3 compatible storage" in my experience, not "amazon s3 specifically" or just "s3 as a protocol".
- recursive 5mo ago
  Does the protocol have a published specification? Today I learned S3 isn't just the name of a product from AWS.
  - ketzu 5mo ago
    Sorry, I'm mostly on the "consumer" side, so I never looked into the specification.
wiether 5mo ago
Suggesting MinIO as an alternative to something with "significant political baggage" seems weird given the recent rug pull?
b3lvedere 5mo ago
I use a cheap alternative to the 3-2-1 rule[1]. I use a mini pc with small smb shares (less than 1 TB). This thing is on 24/7, but runs energy efficient. When it's time to move data, i copy it to a Synology NAS that holds lots of TB's. Then it's also time to backup the really important stuff, which goes to a Hetzner Storage Box[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup#3-2-1_Backup_Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup#3-2-1_Backup_Rule [2]: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/