Sander Meijer on Nostr: Lot's of people on Mastodon instance mountains.social and Pixelfed instance ...
Lot's of people on Mastodon instance mountains.social and Pixelfed instance mountains.photos value their privacy and the outcome of the US elections triggered an assessment how we could improve that with regards to services used by these two instances.
This thread lists the steps in doing that.
The current goal was to move all services into GDPR jurisdiction. This meant finding alternatives to the following services:
- Backblaze (🇺🇸) B2 bucket used for media
- Linode / Akamai (🇺🇸) S3 bucket used for backups
Starting point was https://european-alternatives.eu/category/object-storage-providers which gives an overview of some of the European providers.
After comparison of the prices I chose German firm Contabo (https://contabo.com/en/object-storage) for backup storage. The options are limited, but it is very cheap and for just pushing backups out sufficient.
For the media buckets I chose Finnish firm UpCloud (https://upcloud.com/products/object-storage), which offer fixed pricing (no seperate traffic costs, fair use).
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This thread lists the steps in doing that.
The current goal was to move all services into GDPR jurisdiction. This meant finding alternatives to the following services:
- Backblaze (🇺🇸) B2 bucket used for media
- Linode / Akamai (🇺🇸) S3 bucket used for backups
Starting point was https://european-alternatives.eu/category/object-storage-providers which gives an overview of some of the European providers.
After comparison of the prices I chose German firm Contabo (https://contabo.com/en/object-storage) for backup storage. The options are limited, but it is very cheap and for just pushing backups out sufficient.
For the media buckets I chose Finnish firm UpCloud (https://upcloud.com/products/object-storage), which offer fixed pricing (no seperate traffic costs, fair use).
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#MastoAdmin #MountainsAdmin