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This seems like an appropriate time as any... Anyone want to list some competitors to S3? Bonus if it also provides a way to host a static website.

josephlord 10y ago
Rackspace's Cloudfiles. Does support static websites.
- leesalminen 10y ago
  I use both RS Cloud Files and Google's Cloud Storage. Google's is superior in nearly every way. The only con is that it is a Google product that could be deprecated at any point in time. But, with all the acquisition stuff happening over at RS, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about them killing of their cloud offering.
  - deesix 10y ago
    Two things: 1) Google Cloud Storage can host static websites: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website 2) Google Cloud Platform has a 1 year deprecation policy, which would never happen with a product that so many companies and customer rely on (Google Reader had a small but passionate base) Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Platform
    - leesalminen 10y ago
      To clarify on #2, are you saying that Google Cloud Platform in its entirety has a 1 year deprecation policy? Or that individual products within the platform have a 1 year deprecation policy? I'm not worried about Google deprecating the Storage service but that they could kill off the entire platform. Also just wanted to say that I've been extremely happy with GCP thus far and all the services I've tried thus far have more features than RS. I really hope GCP is here for the long haul.
      - vgt 10y ago
        For what it's worth, a fairly large 5 year contract between Google Cloud and Snap Inc was recently made public.
      - deesix 10y ago
        Sorry, for any product on GCP, there is a 1 year deprecation policy. GCP isn't going anywhere. See the comment about Snap and Diane Greene's involvement (she is an Alphabet board member). Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Platform
  - vocatus_gate 10y ago
    I worry about everything Google hosts because they have such a track record of just randomly axing products with no or little warning.
alfredxing 10y ago
Google Cloud Storage comes to mind. From what I recall they can host static websites as well.
- BrandonY 10y ago
  Yes, we can. You can host static content in GCS in the same way that you would using S3, or you can Google Cloud Load Balancer to do more complex setups, such as mixing static GCS content and compute URLs on the same domain. If you're interested: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview#hosting_a_static_website_with_cloud_storage https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview#host... https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/using-http-lb-with-cloud-storage https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/us... Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Storage.
  - PuffinBlue 10y ago
    Load Balancing looks very interesting. Hopefully that'll be out of Beta sometime soon?
connorshea 10y ago
GitLab Pages [0] is pretty good for static websites IMO, you can use GitLab CI to build more complex sites as well [1]. Disclosure: I work for GitLab [0]: pages.gitlab.io [1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/07/building-a-new-gitlab-docs-site-with-nanoc-gitlab-ci-and-gitlab-pages/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/07/building-a-new-gitlab-do...
- sotojuan 10y ago
  GitLab really needs to provide a way to force HTTPS for domains that have it set up. I have to manually link with `https://` https://` everywhere.
  - jdormit 10y ago
    I would say use CloudFlare, but...
  - connorshea 10y ago
    Yeah, we've wanted that ourselves. There's an issue for it, but it's not scheduled yet. If you know Go, feel free to take a crack at it :)
- trashcan 10y ago
  Slightly related, FYI all of the package downloads for Gitlab are timing out with a 504 error from Cloudfront ("Cloudfront is having difficulty accessing S3". The registry is also showing an error. I'm trying to downgrade to an older version because our install is not working but can't get the DEB unfortunately.
  - connorshea 10y ago
    Looks like it's back up now, sorry about that :(
danohu 10y ago
Backblaze's B2 is an S3 near-clone: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html I don't know about reliability, but it's a fraction of the price of S3.
- boulos 10y ago
  As I've said previously: I love the Backblaze folks, but B2 is apparently hosted in a single building. So that's not a question of if, but when. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
  - qaq 10y ago
    In theory you are totally right but looking at the AWS it seams that the likelihood of issues due to ops complexity could be higher than the risk of a simple but single site service going down.
newsat13 10y ago
Use cloudron.io and install Ghost/Wordpress/Write your own. Just run the server wherever you want.
- puddintane 10y ago
  Interesting that they still host the cloudron.io site on Amazon platform ping cloudron.io -> 54.192.7.94 -> server-54-192-7-94.dfw3.r.cloudfront.net (Amazon Technologies) [1] [1] http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/54.192.7.94 http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/54.192.7.94
  - newsat13 10y ago
    Correct me if I am wrong but you are pointing out that their website is on a CDN. Are you saying they need to host their website on Wordpress/Ghost? AFAIK, Ghost & Wordpress do not easily scale compared to a CDN if your site has heavy traffic (which landing pages must be engineered for as opposed to small blogs).
ruchit47 10y ago
If its static site, put it anywhere and just cache it with Cloudflare. (turn on the always on feature)
- dokument 10y ago
  You also get your ssl sessions backed up on global webcaches as an added feature.
  - remx 10y ago
    Time to move your stuff away from Crimeflare folks
  - angry-hacker 10y ago
    What does it mean?
    - ArlenBales 10y ago
      He's referring to CloudFlare's newest feature, CloudBleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
- PuffinBlue 10y ago
  To do this you'd create a 'Page Rule' that specifically tells Cloudflare to 'cache everything' for a URL pattern like https://examplesite.tld/* https://examplesite.tld/* . You can set a cache invalidation time too. Always online is a slightly different feature I believe.
solotronics 10y ago
IBM Bluemix offers file storage[NFS], block storage[iSCSI], and cloud storage [S3 API, Swift API]. we also offer a large number of boilerplates such as Flask, ASP,net, node.js we have been making lots of changes lately check us out! static page deploy guide: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2014/08/deploying-static-web-sites/ https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2014/08/deploying-static-w... https://console.ng.bluemix.net https://console.ng.bluemix.net
- Entangled 10y ago
  And Swift.
edgartaor 10y ago
Google Cloud Storage or its Firebase hosting version.
kylemathews 10y ago
Netlify is great for hosting static sites. Free for non-commercial sites.
- frakkingcylons 10y ago
  Netlify's status page and pre-rendering service are down due to the S3 outage. https://twitter.com/netlifystatus/status/836643259053023232 https://twitter.com/netlifystatus/status/836643259053023232
  - _fool 10y ago
    Disclaimer: I work for netlify and posted that tweet. Yup, they took those portions of our service down, but we now have redundant status page hosting setups and prerendering that is not tied to S3 (the latter is the only part of our service that was affected, and it was fixed within an hour of the outage)
pas 10y ago
Dream Objects https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/ https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/
technofide 10y ago
An open source project minio.io implements Amazon S3 APIs, and allows you to create your own in-house S3 like infra.
ec109685 10y ago
Any other region of AWS would also have worked around this one.

josephlord 10y ago

Rackspace's Cloudfiles. Does support static websites.

leesalminen 10y ago
I use both RS Cloud Files and Google's Cloud Storage. Google's is superior in nearly every way. The only con is that it is a Google product that could be deprecated at any point in time. But, with all the acquisition stuff happening over at RS, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about them killing of their cloud offering.
- deesix 10y ago
  Two things: 1) Google Cloud Storage can host static websites: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hosting-static-website 2) Google Cloud Platform has a 1 year deprecation policy, which would never happen with a product that so many companies and customer rely on (Google Reader had a small but passionate base) Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Platform
  - leesalminen 10y ago
    To clarify on #2, are you saying that Google Cloud Platform in its entirety has a 1 year deprecation policy? Or that individual products within the platform have a 1 year deprecation policy? I'm not worried about Google deprecating the Storage service but that they could kill off the entire platform. Also just wanted to say that I've been extremely happy with GCP thus far and all the services I've tried thus far have more features than RS. I really hope GCP is here for the long haul.
    - vgt 10y ago
      For what it's worth, a fairly large 5 year contract between Google Cloud and Snap Inc was recently made public.
    - deesix 10y ago
      Sorry, for any product on GCP, there is a 1 year deprecation policy. GCP isn't going anywhere. See the comment about Snap and Diane Greene's involvement (she is an Alphabet board member). Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Platform
- vocatus_gate 10y ago
  I worry about everything Google hosts because they have such a track record of just randomly axing products with no or little warning.

alfredxing 10y ago

Google Cloud Storage comes to mind. From what I recall they can host static websites as well.

BrandonY 10y ago
Yes, we can. You can host static content in GCS in the same way that you would using S3, or you can Google Cloud Load Balancer to do more complex setups, such as mixing static GCS content and compute URLs on the same domain. If you're interested: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview#hosting_a_static_website_with_cloud_storage https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview#host... https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/using-http-lb-with-cloud-storage https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/us... Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud Storage.
- PuffinBlue 10y ago
  Load Balancing looks very interesting. Hopefully that'll be out of Beta sometime soon?

connorshea 10y ago

GitLab Pages [0] is pretty good for static websites IMO, you can use GitLab CI to build more complex sites as well [1]. Disclosure: I work for GitLab [0]: pages.gitlab.io [1]: https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/07/building-a-new-gitlab-docs-site-with-nanoc-gitlab-ci-and-gitlab-pages/ https://about.gitlab.com/2016/12/07/building-a-new-gitlab-do...

sotojuan 10y ago
GitLab really needs to provide a way to force HTTPS for domains that have it set up. I have to manually link with `https://` https://` everywhere.
- jdormit 10y ago
  I would say use CloudFlare, but...
- connorshea 10y ago
  Yeah, we've wanted that ourselves. There's an issue for it, but it's not scheduled yet. If you know Go, feel free to take a crack at it :)
trashcan 10y ago
Slightly related, FYI all of the package downloads for Gitlab are timing out with a 504 error from Cloudfront ("Cloudfront is having difficulty accessing S3". The registry is also showing an error. I'm trying to downgrade to an older version because our install is not working but can't get the DEB unfortunately.
- connorshea 10y ago
  Looks like it's back up now, sorry about that :(

danohu 10y ago

Backblaze's B2 is an S3 near-clone: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html I don't know about reliability, but it's a fraction of the price of S3.

boulos 10y ago
As I've said previously: I love the Backblaze folks, but B2 is apparently hosted in a single building. So that's not a question of if, but when. Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.
- qaq 10y ago
  In theory you are totally right but looking at the AWS it seams that the likelihood of issues due to ops complexity could be higher than the risk of a simple but single site service going down.

newsat13 10y ago

Use cloudron.io and install Ghost/Wordpress/Write your own. Just run the server wherever you want.

puddintane 10y ago
Interesting that they still host the cloudron.io site on Amazon platform ping cloudron.io -> 54.192.7.94 -> server-54-192-7-94.dfw3.r.cloudfront.net (Amazon Technologies) [1] [1] http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/54.192.7.94 http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/54.192.7.94
- newsat13 10y ago
  Correct me if I am wrong but you are pointing out that their website is on a CDN. Are you saying they need to host their website on Wordpress/Ghost? AFAIK, Ghost & Wordpress do not easily scale compared to a CDN if your site has heavy traffic (which landing pages must be engineered for as opposed to small blogs).

ruchit47 10y ago

If its static site, put it anywhere and just cache it with Cloudflare. (turn on the always on feature)

dokument 10y ago
You also get your ssl sessions backed up on global webcaches as an added feature.
- remx 10y ago
  Time to move your stuff away from Crimeflare folks
- angry-hacker 10y ago
  What does it mean?
  - ArlenBales 10y ago
    He's referring to CloudFlare's newest feature, CloudBleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed
PuffinBlue 10y ago
To do this you'd create a 'Page Rule' that specifically tells Cloudflare to 'cache everything' for a URL pattern like https://examplesite.tld/* https://examplesite.tld/* . You can set a cache invalidation time too. Always online is a slightly different feature I believe.

solotronics 10y ago

IBM Bluemix offers file storage[NFS], block storage[iSCSI], and cloud storage [S3 API, Swift API]. we also offer a large number of boilerplates such as Flask, ASP,net, node.js we have been making lots of changes lately check us out! static page deploy guide: https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2014/08/deploying-static-web-sites/ https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2014/08/deploying-static-w... https://console.ng.bluemix.net https://console.ng.bluemix.net

Entangled 10y ago
And Swift.

edgartaor 10y ago

Google Cloud Storage or its Firebase hosting version.

kylemathews 10y ago

Netlify is great for hosting static sites. Free for non-commercial sites.

frakkingcylons 10y ago
Netlify's status page and pre-rendering service are down due to the S3 outage. https://twitter.com/netlifystatus/status/836643259053023232 https://twitter.com/netlifystatus/status/836643259053023232
- _fool 10y ago
  Disclaimer: I work for netlify and posted that tweet. Yup, they took those portions of our service down, but we now have redundant status page hosting setups and prerendering that is not tied to S3 (the latter is the only part of our service that was affected, and it was fixed within an hour of the outage)

pas 10y ago

Dream Objects https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/ https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/

technofide 10y ago

An open source project minio.io implements Amazon S3 APIs, and allows you to create your own in-house S3 like infra.

ec109685 10y ago

Any other region of AWS would also have worked around this one.