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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 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

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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.

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.

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/

Cloudflare R2? https://www.cloudflare.com/products/r2/

You'd likely be in the free tier.

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

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.

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 ?

I use Storj. Its great.

https://www.storj.io/storj-home

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