Re:The NixOS Foundation’s Call to Action: S3 Costs Require C...
by mrweasel on Saturday June 03, 2023 @04:13AM
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There's still open source hosting providers that could provide the bandwidth and maybe the storage for such a project, but I doubt many of them could provide something like S3, it would either be git, https, ftp or maybe rsync.
Building something like S3 yourself on Swift or Minio isn't easily done, the management of these solution can be tricky, especially for multi-petabyte systems.
S3 most likely got them going and scaling really easily, but then at some point the cost comes back to bit you. Still I don't see any good alternatives right now. I don't completely disagree with your, but the overhead of building an S3 like storage solution upfront would have actively prevented the NixOS project getting off the ground.
Building something like S3 yourself on Swift or Minio isn't easily done, the management of these solution can be tricky, especially for multi-petabyte systems.
S3 most likely got them going and scaling really easily, but then at some point the cost comes back to bit you. Still I don't see any good alternatives right now. I don't completely disagree with your, but the overhead of building an S3 like storage solution upfront would have actively prevented the NixOS project getting off the ground.