It is astonishing as to how marketers from the three big clouds have successfully convinced people that there is no middle ground between operating your data center and using one of their cloud services.
Here's what you do:
1. Buy two servers equipped with a large amount of storage. There are many providers[1][2] that offer this. (You could technically do it with one, but two allows you to have high availability and prevent data loss in case of accidents, imagine `rm -rf *`.)
2. Use Minio to set up erasure-coded storage on one of the servers, and replicate objects[3] to the other server.
4. Use Cloudflare (because of their open source sponsorship program[4]) to serve the objects from the primary server, and when performing maintenance tasks, fall back to the secondary.
You could also serve objects directly out of the primary/secondary, but using Cloudflare takes care of low-effort DDoS attacks by hiding the origin, and provides some caching which helps prevent hitting the egress limits of the server provider.
[1] https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vstorage.php
[2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver
[3] https://blog.min.io/active-active-replication/
[4] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-new-oss-sponsorships-...
Here's what you do:
1. Buy two servers equipped with a large amount of storage. There are many providers[1][2] that offer this. (You could technically do it with one, but two allows you to have high availability and prevent data loss in case of accidents, imagine `rm -rf *`.)
2. Use Minio to set up erasure-coded storage on one of the servers, and replicate objects[3] to the other server.
4. Use Cloudflare (because of their open source sponsorship program[4]) to serve the objects from the primary server, and when performing maintenance tasks, fall back to the secondary.
You could also serve objects directly out of the primary/secondary, but using Cloudflare takes care of low-effort DDoS attacks by hiding the origin, and provides some caching which helps prevent hitting the egress limits of the server provider.
[1] https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vstorage.php
[2] https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver
[3] https://blog.min.io/active-active-replication/
[4] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-new-oss-sponsorships-...