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Anyone here got any recommendations for paid cloud storage options? Given where we are I’m looking for piracy friendly options.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you‘re comfortable with S3 then https://wasabi.com/ is a nice option.

You can do backups to S3 with https://github.com/restic/restic or mount it to your system using S3 fuse.

I don’t really think they will care about the data you put on there (you can encrypt it with restic) unless you‘re directly distributing pirated content via S3.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much, with what budget and for what use? Something as simple as a seedbox could suffice in some cases, otherwise maybe look at Hetzner's storage options.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just need to hold about 4TB for a few months until I buy more hard drives. I didn’t think of a seed box though which could be an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No matter what you choose, encrypt the data you store to avoid drama.

You could take a look at wasabi. Keep in mind that I think they have minimum commit. So if you add 1tb of data, you are charged for storing it a minimum of a few months.

Backblaze b2 and cloudflare r2 are also options.

Google drive is also a decent storage platform at a reasonable price. 9.99/mo for 2tb. You can check the rclone matrix for features and alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OneDrive family. It gives you 1 TB per account. You can add up to 5 members and they don't give a fuck about pirated content. I've been using them for the last 2 years without any encryption and I've had no problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hetzner's storage boxes are great. Very cheap too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Proton sounds promising

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@[email protected] The privacy friendly (and cheap) option is DIY with Ceph. Managing 100s of petabytes across multiple clusters with it and it's (mostly) smooth sailing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the running cost for 100PB?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way to tell as it depends on all kinds of factors, like workload and IO requirements. For example you could spin up a very cheap spinning rust Ceph cluster for archival use cases or you could have a very fast NVMe/PMEM cluster for compute workloads.

I am managing all kinds of installations.

And before somebody ask no, not piracy related lmao.

(Replying with my lemmy account as my other account apparently isn’t federating with programming.dev)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unrelated but you can't reply to people from instance that's not federating? That's quite unintuitive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I could not even see your reply on the other account so no way to reply either. I only saw it by navigating to this instance.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Convert your files into visuals, something like Barcodes, make a video, upload to YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's kind of a fun idea, but seems like a ton of effort. As long as the data is just encrypted it could be stored anywhere without risk of being deleted and that would be way easier.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a gamble. Not a bad extra backup option but if that's your only place where you store stuff well then good luck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Videos get deleted? Account banned? Rate limits on uploading?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have you ever used YouTube? Every minute there is 500 hours worth of content uploaded. You uploading private videos that don't trigger ContentID are virtually invisible to the company. Why should your video get deleted, why should your account be banned? You can upload 256 gig in a single video. If you use whataboutism you could also say what happens when your Dropbox/AWS/ProtonDrive account gets banned? What happens if your HDD is burning down?