So, I want to add an S3-compatible storage service local to my home lab (currently I'm using Backblaze). Basically I want it to run as a Docker service on my Synology NAS. It needs to run in the Synology because I want it to be external to my servers. I'm undecided between Garage or SeaweedFS.
Not MinIO. No, not Ceph. Not a VM. Not a Pi. Not in Kubernetes.
Anyone have/had that very particular setup and can share their experiences? Thanks in advance.
Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/
#FreeBSD #SeaweedFS #Mastodon #ITNotes #Fediverse #Hosting #OwnYourData #RunBSD
Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/11/06/self-hosting-your-mastodon-media-with-seaweedfs/
#FreeBSD #SeaweedFS #Mastodon #ITNotes #Fediverse #Hosting #OwnYourData #RunBSD
Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
Self-hosting your Mastodon media with SeaweedFS
@pertho @jae @amd @matthew Both the BSD Cafe and illumos Cafe's S3 media server is powered by #SeaweedFS - the performance is great.
I tried with Garage and, for this specific use case, it was much slower. But it was an old version, so I'm planning to perform some new tests with a recent one.
My minio instance has very basic needs and continues to chug along, but they've clearly made every effort to do away with the community version and I need to figure out a plan before I'm stuck.
Anyone switched to Garage?
Any other suggestions for self-hosting S3 compatible storage?
I'm basically only using it for hosting static pages, restic backup target, and sometimes as a media store for matrix / GoToSocial (though I think neither at this exact moment).
Maybe #SeaWeedFS
I haven't used it, but looks interesting to me.
https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs
After the newest fuckery from #MinIO, I tried #SeaweedFS and Garage, and then decided to just go with #Backblaze for my server backups, with local replication to my Synology NAS.
Sometimes, #selfhosting is the tedious, nerve-wrecking answer to a question, whose real solution is paying $0.5 a month. 🫠
@stefano, I just watched the recording of Patrick Hausen's @EuroBSDCon distributed storage session and at the end of the session somebody said you might have compared #SeaweedFS with #Garage and that you found SeaweedFS more suitable.
I know that you blogged about running SeaweedFS but I wasn't aware you compared different #S3 platforms, if you indeed did, would you mind sharing your experiences?
For example: The blinking you're seeing is due to the replication of the BSD Cafe's media, which happens almost in real-time thanks to SeaweedFS, via VPN. And yes, all that excites me.
Hm, has there always been an "Enterprise" license of #seaweedfs? https://seaweedfs.com/docs/comparison/
I've switched the BSD Cafe Mastodon media over to SeaweedFS.
Posts from the last few hours might not show media, as I'm doing the final 'rclone' migration from MinIO and the ETA is around 3 hours.
Stay tuned 🙂
I've switched the BSD Cafe Mastodon media over to SeaweedFS.
Posts from the last few hours might not show media, as I'm doing the final 'rclone' migration from MinIO and the ETA is around 3 hours.
Stay tuned 🙂
After conducting some performance tests, I believe #SeaweedFS will be the new S3-compatible software for BSD Cafe media storage. The results have been promising
After conducting some performance tests, I believe #SeaweedFS will be the new S3-compatible software for BSD Cafe media storage. The results have been promising
