JesseWells Kenneth_Crayton Exactly my thought, which is why I plan to use my $5/mo VPS I already got here as a self hosted object storage powered by sia, that way I only pay for sia storage and bandwidth. Using aws today but I don't really trust Amazon.
AndrewLowrance Sounds brilliant, but wouldn't that be slower when everything has to go through a single centralized server?
George_Hegland AndrewLowrance Sounds brilliant, but wouldn't that be slower when everything has to go through a single centralized server? What stops you from mounting the same SIA file system via fuse on multiple servers? Object storage also store all the meta data within the file system so this should be super easy to decentralize and scale horizontally right?
AndrewLowrance Redneck666 It can, but it'll be much harder. I've looked into this and tested a bit, using MinIO and SIA allow you to avoid vendor the lockins you'll see on most clouds as the software can basically run on any VPS or server, any cloud or even at home.
Pepe_The_Frog Have you considered Skynet? https://siasky.net/ If I understand it correctly you're able to access your files via any portal once uploaded.
Kenneth_Crayton Magnus_Lind Might even be using MinIO, too bad they only have one location and it seems to b running on AWS.
Boris_Zaitseva babar7 It's like playing Russian roulette, aws is notorious in their censorship. Why use them to access blockchain based storage, when the whole point of blockchain based storage is censorship resistance?
Josef I prefer the object storage available here, plenty of space, fast, reliable and predictable pricing.