Thanks to “goofys”, I am able to map an existing directory to S3 buckets, so I am never locked into AWS. (The goofys is faster than s3fs because it’s not total

Thanks to “goofys”, I am able to map an existing directory to S3 buckets, so I am never locked into AWS. (The goofys is faster than s3fs because it’s not totally POSIX compliant.) I am a big fan of setting up a full stack on a COMMODITY SERVER and it just working. You can outsource your video transcoding and storage to vimeo, AWS etc. but you don’t have to! You can use your own hard drive in your home to run a social network for instance.