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I was asking around in my network after experience with self hosting S3 like solutions. One serious user of SeaweedFS recommended looking into min.io instead. Another serious user of min.io recommend looking into SeaweedFS instead…

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If your looking for more recommendations, try Garage ( https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/ ), which is on my short list to try in my home lab...

Longhorn is another that I see quite a lot, next to Ceph/Rook and lately SeaweedFS.

https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn

Longhorn claims to be a block storage solution so more like EBS than S3.

It used to be if you wanted thousands of tiny files give seaweed a go, minio would suck. But minio has since had a revision so you'd have to test it out.

Seaweed has been running my k8s persistent volumes pretty admirably for like a year for about 4 devs.

I set up seaweed on my home lab a few weeks ago and while it was a bit difficult to initially get everything configured it seems to work really well once I got it running. I’m using it with the CSI driver and have it incrementally backing up to s3 (I originally had it mirrored then realized for my use case I didn’t need to do that).

My one complaint is that I could not really get it to work with an S3 compatible api that wasn’t officially supported in the list of S3 backends, even though that should have been theoretically possible. I ended up picking a supported backend instead.

Lets say instead of 1000s I need to store billions.

So far I have been testing with seaweed and it seems to chug along fine at around ~4B files and it is still increasing.

Has minio improved on that lately ?

Take a look at GarageS3, it's a niceoption for "just an S3 server" for self hosting.

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

I use it for self hosting.

Sounds like you should try both and write an article!

A serious user of both suggested to use iroh instead

If you're talking about this https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh ... Iroh is a p2p file syncing protocol. That's not even close to the same wheelhouse as SeaweedFS. What was their rationale for recommending it?

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