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jef
sent like 7k photos from my phone. impressed how it wirked
yeah, really works well on xns.. and xns performs better than backblaze too
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Backblaze is annoying.. Installed it for a comparison a while back
2:10 PM
Too many pop ups
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Would be great to get XNS added to the list of officially supported clouds for S3Drive
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I second that
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Still uploading. Oofff lots of phone backups. 30GB so far and two more phones to go. 😂😎
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ya. I use S3Drive with XNS as well. backed up all me photos.
4:23 PM
background proccesses will be nice but my 60GB will be done by then
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Hi, I believe you all come from another community that's around XNS, thanks for passing by!
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hey yeah we did! we are running XNS cloud relayers and using S3Drive with them
4:24 PM
works really great
4:24 PM
keeps the data backed up and very secure
4:25 PM
and affordable
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I mean, as should any S3-compatible provider behave :p
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you'd hope so!
4:26 PM
$7/tb, pay as you go, no expensive egress and all E2E encrypted
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are you from the XNS marketing department?
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im a licensed reseller 😉
4:27 PM
and an angel investor
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ah, explains you want to spread the word
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we're speading your word too
4:28 PM
telling our users to try S3Drive
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that's cool, however I'm afraid S3Drive is unable to promote any specific provider, we want to remain a pure S3 implementation and not recommend anything in particular
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i believe @Buzz69 is writing up a tutorial
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tutorials are fine, however general conversations shouldn't diss any provider, and your affiliation should definitely be disclosed
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thats totally fair and im happy to disclose
liquidbread joined the server. 9/11/2023 4:32 PM
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jef
$7/tb, pay as you go, no expensive egress and all E2E encrypted
please do whenever you send a message like that, most people here are users and not providers or affiliated to them, so we expect feedback to be from other standard users by default 😉
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Oh hai
4:33 PM
haven't been green leaf in awhile
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thats fair. i was more speaking to you directly about those features tho
4:34 PM
a bunch of us liked your app, and we saw you have a discord so we joined in
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yeah, no problem, I'm able to ask as well, I'm saying just in case since this community is slowly growing
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but we'll be community minded
4:35 PM
a cool idea might be letting users select roles based on their clouds? maybe giving app to cloud support if needed
Just_Mike joined the server. 9/11/2023 4:37 PM
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Xenthys®
that's cool, however I'm afraid S3Drive is unable to promote any specific provider, we want to remain a pure S3 implementation and not recommend anything in particular
so i when i installed I saw this message
4:40 PM
Support for AWS S3, Backblaze, Wasabi, Scaleway, Storj, MinIO and any other S3 compatible provider. Sign-up for a free account, no credit card required.Aug 22, 2023 S3Drive: Cloud storage on the App Store - Apple
4:40 PM
So thats what I meant would be cool to get XNS added to
4:41 PM
less a promo, and more simply recognized
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I'll be honest, even Scaleway and Storj are a stretch so we should probably shorten this by only mentioning the major players that definitely don't need any recognition
4:45 PM
You certainly know or can at least guess the challenges of publishing an app, where keywords matter and only what we believe will be searched will figure
4:47 PM
i just saw that list of apps, esp including stroj (since XNS is distributed and blockchain) and wanted to ask about inclusion
4:47 PM
but i think we're here to USE this app not just shill
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which is understadable, asking is always a good idea
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i paid for pro and a lots of these guys did or will too i think (edited)
4:47 PM
so we're gonna use it lots
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I did too, I'm talking in the name of S3Drive for this specific matter but I'm not a developer myself
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i appreciate your honest convo too.
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jef
i paid for pro and a lots of these guys did or will too i think (edited)
Yup, will most likely be using this within the week
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full disclosure, I worked a few years for Scaleway, I already left when I discovered S3Drive… and I believe it should be removed from the list doggokek
4:49 PM
Storj's free tier was heavily reduced, so they're probably going to be removed too
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Xenthys®
full disclosure, I worked a few years for Scaleway, I already left when I discovered S3Drive… and I believe it should be removed from the list doggokek
That's confirmed. We're removing Storj and Scaleway.
4:51 PM
yeah i was asking to be added to a list if that list was growing, but if its being pared, then totally understand
4:52 PM
sincere QQ - what do you charge for hosted cloud service?
4:52 PM
(and i think i really misread that business model)
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As this grows I think a channel for wish list functionality would be good. I have a few items that I think would be good for the mobile app. I don’t want to clog gen pop up with them though.
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jef
(and i think i really misread that business model)
nm thats on the main site lol
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t_rott
As this grows I think a channel for wish list functionality would be good. I have a few items that I think would be good for the mobile app. I don’t want to clog gen pop up with them though.
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Ok thank you. Perfect.
4:55 PM
Excited to see this move forward
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yeah bucket auto discovery would be great for self hosted
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as a self-hosted MinIO user, I'm not against it :p
4:56 PM
especially for path-style URLs, where buckets behave more like root-level directories
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yeah, modern IAM gives admin privs to keys but setting up multiple profiles is a PITA
4:58 PM
anyways, here for the growth!
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$S3D to the moon… wait
4:58 PM
wen pancake swap SECRET_KEY
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aws s3 cp wallet.dat boket:/sekrit
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for real now, if you want to try this, I can hook you up with credits
5:00 PM
just for knowledge
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maybe one day, but I don't have much free time to allocate for testing at the moment
5:01 PM
im stuck at home on my weekened with covid so too much free time lol
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I have 12 TB (replicated) with my MinIO server, I paid like $700 for the hardware, it's way cheaper for me as a sysadmin to self-host
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yeah but whats your 3-2-1- backup solution ;P (edited)
5:03 PM
duh (edited)
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4x4 TB in RAID 5 so 12 TB usable, the whole volume has a daily backup to cold storage priced at around 2€/TB/month, and that 12 TB volume is only a copy when I talk about important data
5:05 PM
if I lose my memes, eh, I just have to scroll my DMs with friend lol
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haha yeah
5:07 PM
we're def more SMB/Enterprise looking. Sincerly plan on suggesting your app to all my clients. I'm US based and talk a lot about data control. Getting their backups off Apple/Meta/ Etc
5:07 PM
Phone app especially for these users
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Xenthys®
4x4 TB in RAID 5 so 12 TB usable, the whole volume has a daily backup to cold storage priced at around 2€/TB/month, and that 12 TB volume is only a copy when I talk about important data
I know some that use Glacier Deep Archive, that's $0.00099 per GB. You don't really want to lose your data as if you add the restoration costs and bandwidth it gets pretty expensive... but well if you lose some data then you might well decide to drop it or suck the costs.
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yeah i saw a quote about two kinds of people. Those who havent lost data and those who backup properly
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For me it's worth it as long as I don't restore my data more than once a year… which is alright, if my NAS dies once a year I'm replacing it because it's definitely not a good one
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jef
yeah i saw a quote about two kinds of people. Those who havent lost data and those who backup properly
see, that's where I'm smart and belong to the third kind: I lost someone else's data doggokek
5:11 PM
in my defense, I was a kid and accidently dropped my mom's external hard drive
Currypaul joined the server. 9/12/2023 3:49 PM
eelee joined the server. 9/12/2023 7:25 PM
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I wanted to try the system, but what was putting me off when i see a page that doesnt have any company address, name or identification in which country it operates. Many people would not trust with their data or skip it due to fear of scam. Friendly advice would be that you place transparent info about the team, where is the company based and where are the servers positioned.
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eelee
I wanted to try the system, but what was putting me off when i see a page that doesnt have any company address, name or identification in which country it operates. Many people would not trust with their data or skip it due to fear of scam. Friendly advice would be that you place transparent info about the team, where is the company based and where are the servers positioned.
you can also use your own S3 buckets. S3Drive works really slick that way.
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eelee
I wanted to try the system, but what was putting me off when i see a page that doesnt have any company address, name or identification in which country it operates. Many people would not trust with their data or skip it due to fear of scam. Friendly advice would be that you place transparent info about the team, where is the company based and where are the servers positioned.
That's entirely fair point. You can find our current business address at the relevant places where you can get the software, that is App Store, Google Play and Microsoft Store. We're providing software (for you to use with your S3 account), but we're not providing the service just yet (except technical preview of free 10GB account). We're in the process of changing our operational model and switching the company type to something which is compatible with providing privacy friendly SaaS that's also responsible for keeping customers data safe. This is actually one of the things that's blocking us from providing paid managed account. We're working heavily on tech, but also exploring different laws and jurisdictions to make conscious decision compatible with what we do, but also where we live. Just to give you an idea, registering a business (limited company) + director service and virtual address takes couple hours to couple days, anyone could do that and present that on their website straight away. We're going little bit different route. You can expect more information about our new company, operational model etc. around Q2 2024. Stay tuned. (edited)
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Xenthys® pinned a message to this channel. 9/12/2023 9:02 PM
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Thanks for that great info Tom.
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ya good info
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