$ 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
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.
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.
