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I only say S3 because it's a cheap type of online storage that does not require any of your own infrastructure.

• ikiris 4y ago
  so you want to self host via the cloud? ... why not just use the cloud at that point and skip having to roll your own everything?
  • INTPenis 4y ago
    That's not SELF-hosting. Self-hosting, with emphasis on the self, to me is taking it into your own hands. Using the cloud can be very liberating these days, you can do it in a vendor agnostic way where you own all your domains, your data and can move freely between any cloud provider.
    • nicoburns 4y ago
      There's a sense in which using the cloud isn't SELF hosting either. Although I get what you mean.
      • INTPenis 4y ago
        It's even better than self-hosting on bare metal, because you can move from one vendor to another quicker using IaC. Also more expensive of course. To me self-hosting was always about freedom. The two arguments against self-hosting in the cloud are security and cost.
• mikepurvis 4y ago
  It's also a generic interface which is offered by multiple vendors (Azure, Backblaze, etc) including some on-prem options like MinIO. I mean, on one level, a plain directory is also a generic interface, but blob storage has semantics which naturally lend themselves to replication in ways that a regular filesystem doesn't.