Storage is a big deal. After years experimenting many different options and attempting to circle down optimal solutions, I finally landed on a solution which is very promising and I believe it to be the definitive one.
I am migrating all of my storage system to the S3 filesystem, based on Cubbit decentralized object storage, or Cubbit DS3. I am doing this major switch as I believe this is the system that better satisfies the most the majority of my Storage.
- Durability: it has been a while since Amazon introduced its S3 standard for object storage, and it seems that it is not going to go anywhere soon. Even though Cubbit is a company and could possibly fail, I could easily migrate to a different provider.
- Reliability: Cubbit ensures that it is almost impossible to lose data because of the redundancy by design of its infrastructure.
- Scalability: by owning two Cubbit cells and by having the possibility to expand each of one to up to 2TB, I have a potential maximum storage of approximately 5TB, so far. I am comfortable with this amount for the foreseeable future, bu I could consider purchasing a new Cubbit Cell if I needed more storage.
- Affordability: I bought my first Cubbit Cell at a very discounted price, being an early supporter, and I won the second one via the lottery we conceived for Scambi Festival 2021. I am not paying any monthly fee. It is super ok.
- Sustainability: Cubbit is possibly one of the best options out there weighting features against environmental impact. At its very beginning as a startup, Cubbit produced a whitepaper analyzing this aspect.
- Accessibility: all the data is online all the time.
- Portability: this is quite tricky. I could easily migrate to another S3-compatible provider, but it definitely would not be seamless. Nevertheless, there is nothing a few good lines of code and some tinkering could not achieve.
- Replicability: I am doing by best (and it is not enough, I am aware) to document my steps and my thoughts as much as possible.
Xplosion Server Backup
Currently, Xplosion Server has a 200GB SSD, which is more than enough for what I need. To back it up, though, I need some more storage.
The first step in my migration to Cubbit DS3 has been to offload on its infrastructure the backup of Xplosion Server.
!YunoHost backups on Cubbit DS3 object storage using s3fs
Nextcloud External Storage
I do not fully trust Cubbit DS3 becoming my Nextcloud’s primary storage. Hence, I configured it as external storage, and it is working well so far.
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