Does anyone know of a cheap way to host a static website with a lot of images? Total size is in the gigabytes.
I was thinking something CDN or S3 style, the goal here is cheap.
@gorplop Pass. Depends how many people are interested in looking at pictures of ICs - but if it starts eating a lot of traffic, I'd like to be able to set a limit so it doesn't run up a ton in overage fees
@philpem usually VPS providers just give you a fixed cap after which they throttle traffic - you pay upfront and if people visit too much it will just get throttled, no extra cost.
@gorplop It looks like Digitalocean bill $5/mo for 25GB... Digitalocean Spaces (an S3 competitor) clocked in at 250GB for the same $5/mo, with 1TB transfer.
The same with S3 looks like about $100/mo.
So for storage - object store seems better from a maintenance and cost POV.
@philpem hm, can you run a small httpd on the object storage thing? otherwise you need more than 1 server.. OVH has sub 10eur/mo VPS with unlimited transfer which is just speed-capped. It is an interesting use case
@gorplop yep! Linode, DO and Amazon all allow you to host static sites on object storage. (I think all but Amazon have it in their advertising)
I used DO's for a volunteer group's website aaaaages ago, built with 11ty and a bunch of static templates
The OVH VPS looks interesting but I'd rather not deal with keeping the software updated - and the cost there is the storage
@mw1cgg@gorplop That's neat, I hadn't heard of them. Sadly it looks like they only support custom domains if you proxy them behind Cloudflare. Interesting that the data transfer is free though!
I'm using Backblaze for my Nextcloud storage, Contabo might be a good option for off-site backups.
@mw1cgg@gorplop Ah, I'm talking about object storage. Their tutorial says it needs to be proxied behind something which terminates the SSL connection, they don't generate SSL certificates with custom domains: https://docs.contabo.com/docs/products/Object-Storage/HowTo/custom-domain
The VPS would probably just give you an IP address, so set up the DNS and get a Let's Encrypt cert and you're sorted.
@philpem@gorplop I was using Backblaze for Nextcloud backups. I was getting some horrendous bills though because the Nextcloud Backup app seems... b0rked.
@mw1cgg@gorplop I just throw files on Nextcloud and let it sync via the External Storage plugin - that seems to work mostly okay. Sometimes it has to be resynchronised, and that eats a lot of transfer.
If I was using S3 for backups, I'd probably use Bacula, enable encryption, and rclone the files onto the S3 bucket.
@philpem SBC with a hard disk attatched to it. You've got FTTP. That's going to be your cheapest option. If you don't need masses of grunt, you could look at the OVH Kimsufi, which will give you 1TB of storage on an atom box for under a tenner a month(ish)
@kkarhan@philpem Make sure you know who actually owns your host.
There are dozens of “companies” who are actually all run by the same host. Example was Endurance International that rebranded as NewFold Digital. (I cannot recommend any company associated with them.)
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