# S3 competitor integration

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [7 Ottobre 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883 "2014-10-07T13:37:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [7 Ottobre 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-competitor-integration/20883/1 "2014-10-07T13:37:19Z")

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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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