Cloud Media Storage (S3 Buckets)

There are plenty of cloud storage providers that support the AWS S3 bucket hosting.

AWS S3 has 99.999% SLA, but also very very expensive. Don’t use it.

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)

• Digital Ocean Spaces

• Linode Object Storage

• Vultr Object Storage

• Exoscale Simple Object Storage (SOS)

• OVH Object Storage

• Wasabi Cloud Storage

• Backblaze Cloud Storage

• Jortage Communal Cloud (huge fan of this service for US instances)

• Bunny.net Cloud Storage (coming 2023)

Recommendations

• Just try to find one in your region… not a lot “tuning” that can be done on this front.

• I'd recommend putting a Media Subdomain (https://media.aus.social) or similar to front your traffic. Read about that here.

AWS S3

Do not for any reason use AWS S3... they charge you for storage and upload/download.

I was using AWS S3, and once more than a few thousand people joined... it went from $30 to $1000s a month for something Wasabi charges $10

Wasabi

I'm using Wasabi, because they are very cheap. They have a history of outages in their primary regions, but in Sydney, I haven't experienced any issues with their service (as of writing).