What do you use it for and why?
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I noticed a lot of people using Minio. It seems most are using it for backups. Looking at their website it is really confusing what it actually does / is meant for. What is your use case? And if backups, what makes it better than doing backups without Minio?
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I use it for the same reason I use Cloudron - I like to maintain my data under my control! I use it as backup (object storage) for my entire Cloudron backup, but also as a CDN for several Wordpress sites, and finally as the storage backend for my beloved Mastodon instance.
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@Recliner2042 in short Minio is pretty much a drop in replacement for whenever you want/ need an S3 Compatible bit of object storage (which lots of things integrate with because Amazon is so dominant).
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@jdaviescoates In my limited experience, I've thought of S3 as being for static site hosting (i.e. the front end of any web app). What are some other "lots of things" that use S3?
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@Recliner2042
Some backup programs can use S3 as a backend - think Restic, Kopia or even Cloudron.
Some can use S3 as a backend storage as well - Peertube, Chevereto, Pixelfed. -
@threetrees3 said in What do you use it for and why?:
Some backup programs can use S3 as a backend - think Restic, Kopia or even Cloudron.
Yeah, some of my older non-Cloudron WordPress clients are getting backed up to an instance of Minio on my Cloudron
@threetrees3 said in What do you use it for and why?:
Some can use S3 as a backend storage as well - Peertube, Chevereto, Pixelfed.
Yeah, lots of apps have an option to store data on S3 object storage. I'm not actually using Minio for that myself, but have connected my Peertube, Pixelfed and Mastodon instances to S3 storage at Scaleway.
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Oh I see. You have an app on a remote server, that uses Minio on your home server for storage, so that way you don't have to pay storage costs on the remote server, and you own your data.
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@Recliner2042 Or even two remote servers. One compute VPS and one storage VPS, for example.
