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this might be a stupid comment. but is this safe to use inside a commercial project as a backend s3 solution? i.e. just using it instead of lcoal storage and n

by merb 5y ago

this might be a stupid comment. but is this safe to use inside a commercial project as a backend s3 solution? i.e. just using it instead of lcoal storage and not changing it?

superboum 5y ago
Our software is published under the AGPLv3 license and comes with no guarantee, like any other FOSS project (if you do not pay for support). We are considering our software as "public beta" quality, so we think it works well, at least for us. On the plus side, it survived Hacker News Hug of Death. Indeed, the website we linked is hosted on our own Garage cluster made of old Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 (with Intel Pentium G3420 and 8GB of RAM) and the cluster seems fine. We also host more than 100k objects in our Matrix (a chat service) bucket. On the minus side, this is the first time we have so much coverage, so our software has not yet been tested by thousands of people. It is possible that in the near future, some edge cases we never triggered are reported. This is the reason why most people wait that an application reaches a certain level of adoption before using it, in other words they don't want to pay "the early adopter cost". In the end, it's up to you :-)
- cvwright 5y ago
  Awesome. Are you using the matrix-media-repo to connect the Matrix homeserver to Garage?
  - lxpz 5y ago
    No, we are simply using synapse-s3-storage-provider: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider
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lxpz 5y ago
License-wise, Garage is AGPLv3 like many similar software projects such as MinIO and MongoDB. We are not lawyers, but in the spirit, this should not preclude from using it in commercial software as long as it is not modified. In the case where you are modifying it, like e.g. adding a nice administration GUI, we kindly ask that you publish your modifications as open source so that we can incorporate them back in the main product if we want.

by merb 5y ago

this might be a stupid comment. but is this safe to use inside a commercial project as a backend s3 solution? i.e. just using it instead of lcoal storage and not changing it?

superboum 5y ago

Our software is published under the AGPLv3 license and comes with no guarantee, like any other FOSS project (if you do not pay for support). We are considering our software as "public beta" quality, so we think it works well, at least for us. On the plus side, it survived Hacker News Hug of Death. Indeed, the website we linked is hosted on our own Garage cluster made of old Lenovo ThinkCentre M83 (with Intel Pentium G3420 and 8GB of RAM) and the cluster seems fine. We also host more than 100k objects in our Matrix (a chat service) bucket. On the minus side, this is the first time we have so much coverage, so our software has not yet been tested by thousands of people. It is possible that in the near future, some edge cases we never triggered are reported. This is the reason why most people wait that an application reaches a certain level of adoption before using it, in other words they don't want to pay "the early adopter cost". In the end, it's up to you :-)

cvwright 5y ago
Awesome. Are you using the matrix-media-repo to connect the Matrix homeserver to Garage?
- lxpz 5y ago
  No, we are simply using synapse-s3-storage-provider: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider

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lxpz 5y ago

License-wise, Garage is AGPLv3 like many similar software projects such as MinIO and MongoDB. We are not lawyers, but in the spirit, this should not preclude from using it in commercial software as long as it is not modified. In the case where you are modifying it, like e.g. adding a nice administration GUI, we kindly ask that you publish your modifications as open source so that we can incorporate them back in the main product if we want.