$ cd lemmy-dir
$ du -sh *
456K    lemmy-ui
15G     pictrs
4.3G    postgres

Guys this is no longer funny please I feel literally chased by the “no space left” message. Please help I don’t need those pics I did not upload them

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You don’t pay for storing on multiple servers.

    For services like S3, it’s included in the price.

    Instance media storage reaches 500GB in a month and S3 is always cheaper than data volumes

    Not sure where you got the idea that S3 would always be cheaper. $5/TB/month is a standard benchmark price for storage “in the cloud”, and S3 is way more than that.

    As an example, a Hetzner storage box is around $3.50/month (+ VAT if you’re in Europe) for 1TB of space with unlimited traffic. The same amount of space with S3 is $23/month, plus the traffic.

    For caches of media files, you don’t need redundant storage like what S3 provides. You can save money by using a cheaper option.

    Backblaze is not cheapest.

    I didn’t say it was the cheapest, just that it’s cheaper than S3. Cheapest would probably be a Kimsufi server or something similar.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This is for an SSD-based volume, which you really don’t need for media storage. If you’re using Hetzner, just get a storage box.