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Inexpensive S3 for non-profits?

walterhpdx

walterhpdx

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I thought we were getting a good deal going with Backblaze, but we haven't been there a full month and our bill is already over $200 for the month for 40Gb of uploads:
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Anyone know of really inexpensive online S3-type hosting that's not going to kill us? As a US Non-Profit, we get about $3,000 in donations/year, and that just covers our legal and webhosting/bandwidth costs. We can't throw another $2500+/year on top of that without it coming out of my pocket.
 
The catch with storage providers is that you need to put a CDN in front of them because the storage type they sell is "hot storage" and that's expensive to transfer.

With Chevereto you can control the resulting storage URL, so if you want to stick with B2 I believe they have a partnership with CloudFlare which you could use to dramatically reduce that cost: https://www.backblaze.com/docs/clou...c-backblaze-b2-content-through-cloudflare-cdn

B2 also has a setting called "file versioning" enabled by default which does sort of a time machine of all your files. That could be adding to the total. That feature is totally useless for Chevereto.

There's also CloudFlare R2 provider which is S3 Compatible and the egress bandwidth is not charged at all (you pay for storage): https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/r2/

Chevereto supports multiple storages, so you could add the Cloudflare R2 provider and the CDN on top of the B2 provider simultaneously.
 
Sorry your non-profit got stung.

I host Chevereto on Digital Ocean. I have a 50GB storage attached to my chevereto site that is reasonably priced. I chose that option for my site storage because there are no bandwidth (uploads/access) charge.

I also have an AWS S3. I have hundreds of large media files. My bill is never over $7/mo. I do not pay to upload. Charges are for access (downloads). It is not connected to my chevereto website, but a copy of my 15,000 photos is backed up there.

I am experimenting with CloudFlare’s R2 storage I am still in the free tier, but it is comparable to AWS. They offer NFP pricing.

Happy Shopping!
 
I was also looking for cheap storage. The cheapest option if you're technical is to get a dedicated server and either create your own S3-compatible storage with MinIO or build a ZFS storage pool. My dedicated server with 16 TB of storage costs only $70 per month (unmetered 1 Gbps, 150 TB bandwidth). It would cost around $200 on Cloudflare R2 and over $1,000 on BunnyCDN.

I also use a Hetzner Storage Box (not S3) for backups.
 
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