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I'm looking at deploying SeaWeedFS but the problem is cloud block storage costs. I need 3-4TB and Vultr costs $62.50/mo for 2.5TB. DigitalOcean $300/mo for 3TB.

I'm looking at deploying SeaWeedFS but the problem is cloud block storage costs. I need 3-4TB and Vultr costs $62.50/mo for 2.5TB. DigitalOcean $300/mo for 3TB. AWS using legacy magnetic EBS storage $150/mo... GCP persistent disk standard $120/mo. Any alternatives besides racking own servers? *EDIT* Did a little ChatGPT and it recommended tiny t4g.micro then use EBS of type cold HDD (sc1). Not gonna be fast, but for offsite backup will probably do the trick.

huntaub 10mo ago
Shot you an email about how we can potentially help you with this.
xyzzy123 10mo ago
I'm confused why you would want to turn an expensive thing (cloud block storage) into a cheaper thing (cloud object storage) with worse durability in a way that is more effort to run? I'm not saying it's wrong since I don't know what it's for, I'm just wondering what the use-case could be.
- nodesocket 10mo ago
  I've quickly come to this conclusion. Essentially looking for offsite backup of my NAS and currently paying around $15-$20/mo to Backblaze. I thought I might be able to roll my own object store for cheaper but that was idiotic. :-)
  - xyzzy123 10mo ago
    Totally fair. There are some situations where you can "undercut" cloud native object storage on a per TB basis (e.g. you have a big dedi at Hetzner with 50TB or 100TB of mirrored disk) but you pay a cost in operational overhead and durability vs managed object store. It's really hard to make the economics work at $20 price point, if you get up to a few $100 or more then there are some situations where it can make sense. For backup to a dedi you don't really need to bother running the object store though.
Bombthecat 10mo ago
Hetzner VM with mounted storage box. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ It's not as fast as local storage of course, but it's cheap!

huntaub 10mo ago

Shot you an email about how we can potentially help you with this.

xyzzy123 10mo ago

I'm confused why you would want to turn an expensive thing (cloud block storage) into a cheaper thing (cloud object storage) with worse durability in a way that is more effort to run? I'm not saying it's wrong since I don't know what it's for, I'm just wondering what the use-case could be.

nodesocket 10mo ago
I've quickly come to this conclusion. Essentially looking for offsite backup of my NAS and currently paying around $15-$20/mo to Backblaze. I thought I might be able to roll my own object store for cheaper but that was idiotic. :-)
- xyzzy123 10mo ago
  Totally fair. There are some situations where you can "undercut" cloud native object storage on a per TB basis (e.g. you have a big dedi at Hetzner with 50TB or 100TB of mirrored disk) but you pay a cost in operational overhead and durability vs managed object store. It's really hard to make the economics work at $20 price point, if you get up to a few $100 or more then there are some situations where it can make sense. For backup to a dedi you don't really need to bother running the object store though.

Bombthecat 10mo ago

Hetzner VM with mounted storage box. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/ It's not as fast as local storage of course, but it's cheap!