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Re:Show HN: I am building Reesd, a redundant storage service by toomuchtodo on Monday February 17, 2014 @03:58PM (#7254448)
How would this be different than using Amazon S3 with s3cmd (https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd)? I understand scp is stock in all Linux distros, but Amazon S3 is extremely cost competitive, allows archival to Glacier, and allows for immediate verification of data integrity. It only takes moments to install s3cmd from the command line.

Please don't think I'm being a debbie downer. I could be wrong.

TL;DR Why is this better than S3?

Re:Show HN: I am building Reesd, a redundant storage service by thu on Monday February 17, 2014 @04:09PM (#7254508)
The bare idea is very much similar to S3, i.e. a file store. I hope to bring a different value with things like webhooks, Docker images rebuilt automatically as files are uploaded (e.g. for reconfiguration prior to deployment on a cluster of machines), ... agreed these additional features are vaporware but I get started :)

Now, I really think that re-using scp is neat. For instance if you have tools to manage a cluster of machines, it is entirely possible you are already using SSH deploy keys (i.e. you have tools to manage SSH-based credentials). But sure you are probably also using other services that requires API keys.

Re:Show HN: I am building Reesd, a redundant storage service by toomuchtodo on Monday February 17, 2014 @04:13PM (#7254536)
Thank you for the response! I look forward to trying your service!