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Re “egress is free”. Note that “If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit f

by robga 4y ago

Re “egress is free”. Note that “If your monthly egress data transfer is greater than your active storage volume, then your storage use case is not a good fit for Wasabi’s free egress policy”. There are reports of bill shock from mastodon users as a result of the costs due to the policy. https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy https://wasabi.com/paygo-pricing-faq/#free-egress-policy

pimeys 4y ago
I'm all ears for a better solution. We probably will have less than a gigabyte of storage needs, and egress is what it is with some local caching from the servers. The only thing I want is to not store the files in the application server.
- robga 4y ago
  Looks like backblaze b2 and cloudflare as a cdn may have a more liberal egress policy. Your profile with wasabi may suit your needs, however. Another option is minio.
  - squaresmile 4y ago
    Yep, b2 and cf is a great combo for hobby project. Note that you still need to pay for transactions so depending on your usage pattern, b2 might range from very cheap to a nice discount. I recommend turning on tiered cache on cf [0]. Our b2 bill went from $7 to $4. [0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/about/tiered-cache/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/about/tiered-cache/
- mkl 4y ago
  Cloudflare R2? https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/ You'd likely be in the free tier.
- moonchrome 4y ago
  Maybe I'm dumb and missing something obvious - what's wrong with selfhosting and another VM if you're doing >1gb ? You already have to deal with backups on postgres VMs ?
- _cenw 4y ago
  I used to host a reverse proxy on the same box as the Mastodon instance and then have that be the origin for a bunny.net bucket. Worked great and I could make my webserver ensure that only my bucket was open.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  https://www.storj.io/pricing https://www.storj.io/pricing they have cheaper storage and up t0 150GB is free so maybe try this one as well? i am on the fence for a dirt cheap S3 myself but B2 and cloudflare R2 is in the $10-15/TB range and something cheaper would be nice for a small usecase
- vagrantJin 4y ago
  I use Storj. Its great. https://www.storj.io/storj-home https://www.storj.io/storj-home

by robga 4y ago

pimeys 4y ago

I'm all ears for a better solution. We probably will have less than a gigabyte of storage needs, and egress is what it is with some local caching from the servers. The only thing I want is to not store the files in the application server.

robga 4y ago
Looks like backblaze b2 and cloudflare as a cdn may have a more liberal egress policy. Your profile with wasabi may suit your needs, however. Another option is minio.
- squaresmile 4y ago
  Yep, b2 and cf is a great combo for hobby project. Note that you still need to pay for transactions so depending on your usage pattern, b2 might range from very cheap to a nice discount. I recommend turning on tiered cache on cf [0]. Our b2 bill went from $7 to $4. [0] https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/about/tiered-cache/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/about/tiered-cache/
mkl 4y ago
Cloudflare R2? https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/ You'd likely be in the free tier.
moonchrome 4y ago
Maybe I'm dumb and missing something obvious - what's wrong with selfhosting and another VM if you're doing >1gb ? You already have to deal with backups on postgres VMs ?
_cenw 4y ago
I used to host a reverse proxy on the same box as the Mastodon instance and then have that be the origin for a bunny.net bucket. Worked great and I could make my webserver ensure that only my bucket was open.
2Gkashmiri 4y ago
https://www.storj.io/pricing https://www.storj.io/pricing they have cheaper storage and up t0 150GB is free so maybe try this one as well? i am on the fence for a dirt cheap S3 myself but B2 and cloudflare R2 is in the $10-15/TB range and something cheaper would be nice for a small usecase
vagrantJin 4y ago
I use Storj. Its great. https://www.storj.io/storj-home https://www.storj.io/storj-home