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Speaking of cheap object storage, has anyone had any experiences with OVH's Object Storage? https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https:/

Speaking of cheap object storage, has anyone had any experiences with OVH's Object Storage? https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://www.ovh.com/us/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ It seems to be more expensive for storage but nearly half the cost for transfer.

RX14 9y ago
I tried it a while back, maybe it was just me being stupid but I found no CLI, or decent tool for the API. Ended up giving up because the barrier to entry was too high. I'd suggest they work on tooling.
- zzzcpan 9y ago
  Don't they use Swift API for which lots of tooling is available? EDIT: And Backblaze B2 invented their own API, so no tooling at all.
  - nerdponx 9y ago
    I think by "decent tool" they meant "decent wrapper program" rather than "tooling for programming with the API".
  - cuonic 9y ago
    They do, and there is a CLI tool provided by OpenStack themselves: https://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/swift.html https://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/swift.html
  - RX14 9y ago
    Guess I must be blind then. Are there any sync programs which work with it?
  - brianwski 9y ago
    > Backblaze B2 invented their own API, so no tooling at all. At first that was true, but now we have a list of 3rd party tools you can use. Check the list out here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html Here is a sample from that web page: CloudBerry, Rclone (mount B2 as a hard drive on your desktop), Synology (this is a NAS drive), Retrospect, Cantemo, Cubix, Cyberduck, Duplicacy, Duplicity Linux, HashBackup, NyNAS, NeoFinder, Odrive, Qbackup, SmartFTP
ultraunreal 9y ago
Using it as a storage backend for PrestoDB analytics, storing Orc files. Works well.
Veratyr 9y ago
I've tried it but ultimately the cost of storage outweighs the benefit to bandwidth assuming infrequent data access. OVH is also entirely located in Canada and France so performance between much of the US and their services isn't fantastic. Also notable is that unlike many of the other cloud providers, OVH doesn't seem to offer free bandwidth between their services. You can't spin up an OVH server to thumbnail a bunch of images for example as far as I can tell.

RX14 9y ago

I tried it a while back, maybe it was just me being stupid but I found no CLI, or decent tool for the API. Ended up giving up because the barrier to entry was too high. I'd suggest they work on tooling.

zzzcpan 9y ago
Don't they use Swift API for which lots of tooling is available? EDIT: And Backblaze B2 invented their own API, so no tooling at all.
- nerdponx 9y ago
  I think by "decent tool" they meant "decent wrapper program" rather than "tooling for programming with the API".
- cuonic 9y ago
  They do, and there is a CLI tool provided by OpenStack themselves: https://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/swift.html https://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/swift.html
- RX14 9y ago
  Guess I must be blind then. Are there any sync programs which work with it?
- brianwski 9y ago
  > Backblaze B2 invented their own API, so no tooling at all. At first that was true, but now we have a list of 3rd party tools you can use. Check the list out here: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html Here is a sample from that web page: CloudBerry, Rclone (mount B2 as a hard drive on your desktop), Synology (this is a NAS drive), Retrospect, Cantemo, Cubix, Cyberduck, Duplicacy, Duplicity Linux, HashBackup, NyNAS, NeoFinder, Odrive, Qbackup, SmartFTP

ultraunreal 9y ago

Using it as a storage backend for PrestoDB analytics, storing Orc files. Works well.

Veratyr 9y ago

I've tried it but ultimately the cost of storage outweighs the benefit to bandwidth assuming infrequent data access. OVH is also entirely located in Canada and France so performance between much of the US and their services isn't fantastic. Also notable is that unlike many of the other cloud providers, OVH doesn't seem to offer free bandwidth between their services. You can't spin up an OVH server to thumbnail a bunch of images for example as far as I can tell.