I’ve honestly never understood the need for s3 buckets. WebDAV satisfies my needs. I’m sure there are some use cases that require S3, but for the life of me I can’t think of one off the top of my head right now.
I use an external S3 provider so that I only pay for the storage I use for the services I host. It’s dirt cheap, 0.00002750€ per GiB hour (excluding tax). Self-hosting something like MinIO for your app gives you the option of switching to an external provider later on, and it gives you flexibility in the location of the storage.
S3 is not made for you. It’s made for entities that need to store millions of objects, with thousands of different rules, reading/writing from hundreds of machines without coordination, and with consistent, low latency. Now that some software use that as a storage layer, having an implementation for you is useful
So, it’s mostly used for overengineering?
They’ve been anti-open source for a while, they clearly don’t see a profit motive without killing off their open source side. Anyone selfhosting or into open source should consider MinIO dead, and migrate. Hopefully someone forks it.
Hopefully someone forks it.
people did, and then proceeded to do nothing with it.
I don’t like minio’s moves here or the way they communicated it but they weren’t wrong when they said the community was not contributing in a significant way.
Shit, I am actually building a webtool and thought Minio could be a good part to be a file storage in it. What’s an good alternative?
Edit: I try “garage”
S3 compatibility is nice I guess if you need S3 compatibility but also… why would you need that?
sshfs does everything I need and compatibility is almost native.
SSHFS is a hack and has nothing to do with the proposal of S3 compatible backends
