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girinovey | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Migrating from and to S3 in mastodon is still a PitA. They haven't restricted me yet, but if they do, i can just move to DNS only, since it is already in an s3 like object storage.

And since i couldn't make blossom work, i wont be storing files in blossom anyways :-D
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Anthony Accioly | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 With my repo (and I’m sure The Ben’s repo will follow up), Blossom will work OOB with a simple docker/podman compose up – just give me a few days. :)

As for Mastodon, if you already have an Object Storage and is serving the media from a separate subdomain you’re golden; there's plenty of video-friendly CDNs out there. I self-hosted for a couple of years for $6 to $15 a month (yes, there are some great managed hosting options that actually do a proper job of giving you a solid backup if you need to check out your data at that price range, I myself surrendered to the convenience after self-hosting for several years).
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girinovey | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i'm spending 28 USD/year for the VPS and 40 USD/year for an idrive-e2 object storage. that's less than 6 USD/month for the whole mastodon instance.
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Anthony Accioly | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Nice! This is great pricing for sure. I'm honestly not up to date with good value for money ervices nowadays. But Hetzner and OVH has always served me well. Wasabi and Backblaze are also great options for storage. Bunny and Fastly also works well as CDNs.
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girinovey | 24 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i read a lot about wasabi having hidden fees, i was afraid to try. Backblaze was more expensive than idrive e2 when i checked (still is, 50 USD in idrive vs. 72 USD in backblaze).

I'll check bunny and fastly.