Comment by DavideNL
4 days ago
Thank you for the tip! Luckily there are some useful and thoughtful commenters on HN too, other than all the downvotes and negativity :-)
Apparently HN does not like "not self hosting" and/or "e2e encryption" ?
Meanwhile, i also found https://zeitkapsl.eu/
I think I dug my own grave by not being explicit that I thought S3 as a protocol and not the AWS product. :)
To elaborate a bit further, the S3 layer makes sense once you self-host S3 yourself. This allows clusterization of multiple hosts to offer redundancy in self-hosted setting -- for example, a friend of mine and I run S3 instances and "seed" each others' buckets for photo storage, but also for package manager (Nix). Having this kind of sane object storage just expands in use-cases, like with Matrix, etc., which all then inherit the clusterization hence redundancy for free.
The E2E encryption is also very useful when you are backing up or hosting photo galleries for friends and family -- because you cannot do metadata analysis on encrypted files, they have to do that on their own devices. This makes self-hosting much more "fearless" because I do not have to account for the fact that when/if my nodes are becoming a sauna-stoves for doing inference when someone dumps an album in.
The datasets that I have are terabytes. At some point it's just cheaper (accounting your time as free) to buy a 20tb drives and get yourself a runway for 5 years or more + space to do other stuff.