Lot's of people on Mastodon instance mountains.social and Pixelfed instance mountains.photos value their privacy and the outcome of the US elections triggered an assessment how we could improve that with regards to services used by these two instances.
This thread lists the steps in doing that.
The current goal was to move all services into GDPR jurisdiction. This meant finding alternatives to the following services:
- Backblaze (🇺🇸) B2 bucket used for media
- Linode / Akamai (🇺🇸) S3 bucket used for backups
Starting point was european-alternatives.eu/categ… which gives an overview of some of the European providers.
After comparison of the prices I chose German firm Contabo (contabo.com/en/object-storage) for backup storage. The options are limited, but it is very cheap and for just pushing backups out sufficient.
For the media buckets I chose Finnish firm UpCloud (upcloud.com/products/object-st…), which offer fixed pricing (no seperate traffic costs, fair use).
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European object storage providers | European Alternatives
Object storage providers allow their users to store files hierarchically.European Alternatives
Sander Meijer
in reply to Sander Meijer • • •After setting up the backup buckets at Contabo, the migration was done via flexify.io. You get a 20 USD balance, which was sufficient to migrate all the backup data from Linode to Contabo.
This tool is super convenient. Just define source and target and press Go. There are also advanced options in case you need it.
The services uses DigitalOcean droplets which are deployed on-the-fly. The through is very high (the main benefit compared to using s3cmd etc. Can highly recommend.
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Flexify.IO - Multi-cloud storage, migration, and S3 gateway
flexify.ioSander Meijer
in reply to Sander Meijer • • •On the UpCloud site there was no documentation what fair-use traffic meant in case you just use object storage. Asking via chat proved to be very good. Within minutes an actual person (no bot!!) replied and gave me the information I needed (it appears that 10 TB per month is considered fair-use, we use approx 1 TB so all good). Such a good support service of UpCloud.
I'm normally not so into referral programs, but after this good experience, let's give it a go. Maybe it is useful for someone.
"For every new user who signs up using your referral code and makes at least two successful one-time payments, you will receive €50 worth of free credits after 28 days have passed since their first payment. Every new user also receives a bonus worth of €25 credits when signing up through the referral program."
upcloud.com/signup/?promo=T6J9…
Every 250 GB object storage costs €5, so that would give new customers 5 months of free storage.
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