<story><title>Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3</title><url>https://nimbus.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Egregore</author><text>Yes, being opens source is motivation, because you can create your own cloud with your own hardware when you need it.&lt;p&gt;And it&apos;s additional assurance that you&apos;ll be able to deploy your system even if they go out of business.</text></item><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>Is being 100% open-source really the motivating factor to use this over S3? I would think the only factors vs using this over S3 would be price and reliability/performance.&lt;p&gt;I could care less if this is open source, if I&apos;m going to offload my data to a 3rd party, open source or not and I&apos;m worried about privacy I&apos;m going to encrypt it. I honestly could care less what happens on the back-end, just commit to a data loss and reliability SLA and I&apos;m happy.&lt;p&gt;If you can support my use case, or have reliable performance near 370k requests/sec (&lt;a href=&quot;http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-objects-370000-requestssecond-and-hiring.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-obj...&lt;/a&gt;) and be cheaper than S3 then we&apos;ll talk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rarrrrrr</author><text>(SpiderOak / Nimbus.io cofounder here)&lt;p&gt;In addition to supporting the founders personal ethics about software freedom, we feel an open source backend is important for just the sake of confidence.&lt;p&gt;Some people will want to purchase the minimum of 10 machines and host a Nimbus.io storage cluster themselves (and we are also making our hardware specs open source.)  Other cloud storage providers may even do this.  We hope a few people will consider the hosted option, paying Nimbus.io $0.06 per GB.&lt;p&gt;In any case, all of these are a win for us.  We&apos;re already spending money every day to maintain a reliable storage backend for our encrypted Backup &amp;#38; Sync business at SpiderOak.com.  Nimbus.io is an evolution from that.  Community involvement here is most welcome.  :)&lt;p&gt;Aside from that, it&apos;s just a design we are excited to share.  Every other distributed storage system I could find uses replication instead of parity.  A system based on parity sacrifices latency but can deliver higher throughput on individual requests (at about 1/3 the cost.)  There are use cases even outside of archival storage where this is attractive.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nimbus.io: Open-source alternative to Amazon S3</title><url>https://nimbus.io/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>Egregore</author><text>Yes, being opens source is motivation, because you can create your own cloud with your own hardware when you need it.&lt;p&gt;And it&apos;s additional assurance that you&apos;ll be able to deploy your system even if they go out of business.</text></item><item><author>res0nat0r</author><text>Is being 100% open-source really the motivating factor to use this over S3? I would think the only factors vs using this over S3 would be price and reliability/performance.&lt;p&gt;I could care less if this is open source, if I&apos;m going to offload my data to a 3rd party, open source or not and I&apos;m worried about privacy I&apos;m going to encrypt it. I honestly could care less what happens on the back-end, just commit to a data loss and reliability SLA and I&apos;m happy.&lt;p&gt;If you can support my use case, or have reliable performance near 370k requests/sec (&lt;a href=&quot;http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-objects-370000-requestssecond-and-hiring.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/10/amazon-s3-566-billion-obj...&lt;/a&gt;) and be cheaper than S3 then we&apos;ll talk.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoeAltmaier</author><text>Its a leap that folks desiring cloud storage will want to host their own some day. I think its a little like &quot;I want an open-source car, so when they switch back to horses, I&apos;m ready!&quot;</text></comment>