What were the reasons they gave? I would guess speed, reliability, and overall size of the archive. My web host gives me only 100 gigs (which is plenty enough for a normal website).
Biggest reason is that it is convenient (more than buying a VPS and self hosting) and it’s very cheap (something like USD 0.0080 per GB (I am exaggerating upwards because I don’t remember the exact number)). The cost is also offset to the receiver a little bit so it’s easier on the uploader financially. Plus there is fault tolerance because the data is mirrored to two other physical locations.
I was curious because my employer also uses something similar (called MinIO) for hosting their datasets. But they also self host the MinIO clusters so I am still not sure what benefit it provides to them, especially since the data from this cluster is only accessed internally.
What were the reasons they gave? I would guess speed, reliability, and overall size of the archive. My web host gives me only 100 gigs (which is plenty enough for a normal website).
Biggest reason is that it is convenient (more than buying a VPS and self hosting) and it’s very cheap (something like USD 0.0080 per GB (I am exaggerating upwards because I don’t remember the exact number)). The cost is also offset to the receiver a little bit so it’s easier on the uploader financially. Plus there is fault tolerance because the data is mirrored to two other physical locations.
I was curious because my employer also uses something similar (called MinIO) for hosting their datasets. But they also self host the MinIO clusters so I am still not sure what benefit it provides to them, especially since the data from this cluster is only accessed internally.