# S3 competitor integration
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [October 7, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883 "2014-10-07T13:37:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883/1 "2014-10-07T13:37:19Z")
This is a continuation of a discussion to find an S3 competitor.
The main reason is that S3 has bizarre pricing structures and IMO for a large Discourse instance including those based on photo and video it could hit them for a lot of $$$$
**Proposal:**
Feasibility investigation on Rackspace/Openstack or Google Cloud and the extension/continuation of @zogstrip 's normalization work on image bucket and backup storage. So far the pricing seems very straight forward for Google Cloud hosting. But can it be done? or is it a high threshold pain point that triggers fight or flight instincts? I guess I will judge that by how fast this post gets deleted or closed and killed with fire 😄
> **[Storage pricing](https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing)**
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> Storage pricing.
**Disclaimer:**
I could do a PR but I am dynamic/procedural candy coder, anything I provide via a PR will be murdered instantly which would wreck my fragile psychology. So someone with thicker skin would need to do this.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2014, 1:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883/2 "2014-10-07T13:40:54Z")
Adding a new `file storage` shouldn’t be _that_ hard since they only need to implement a [basic interface](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/file_store/base_store.rb). The hardest part will be adding proper test coverage. Testing I/O truly is a PITA ☹
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2014, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883/3 "2014-10-07T18:46:22Z")
I have seem some of your testing ‘stuff’ (evil trout’s actually). And it looks like a HUUUUUUUUGGGE time sink (ice pick to the eyeballs).
but…I believe with the regression that occurred in the past, it’s a necessary evil, right?
💫
Hmmm…that basic interface looks really simple and clean. I think it would need an additional function of
def bucketType (S3/Google) (or something that carries some routing logic through to the other functions)
Interesting…
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883/4 "2025-12-04T11:32:27Z")