So I was following the Digital Ocean Spaces guide , and I started looking around for cheaper providers for my (very) small community. I noticed this old post which confused me, because I had just looked at Backblaze B2 and saw that it was S3 compatible. Turns out they launched the feature 30 minutes …

So has the Backblaze substitution been working seamlessly for you, no glitches? I just came here looking for info as I notice it provides 10 GB of free space which would reduce my hosting costs. I’d need to migrate my existing S3 content first though. I’m also curious if anyone has migrated a live …

Instead of carrying this topic, let’s get it added to the s3 clones listing: [image] Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads Self-Hosting information_source This topic covers how to configure some common S3 compatible Object Storage providers (S3 c…

Old thread, but this guide was exactly what I was looking for. I have a small community as well and have been looking at storing our images and backups in the cloud, instead of on our main server with digitalocean. This should help our site run smoother by reducing the server load from image files. …

So I got backups to work correctly, backup in Discourse sends to my backup bucket at Backblaze. However, Discourse image uploads aren’t appearing in my uploads bucket at Backblaze. I made sure it is set to public. Any ideas?

@Bill I would recommend seeking support in Using Object Storage for Uploads (S3 Clones)

Given I just set this up successfully with cloudflare, I thought I’d share my experience. Cloudflare is not your traditional CDN. I’m using it for DDoS protection, SSL, and caching. However, to setup S3 storage, it seems you do need another CDN. I used BunnyCDN which is relatively inexpensive. You s…

Setting up backup and image uploads to Backblaze B2

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riking (Kane York) May 5, 2020, 11:19pm 3

Instead of carrying this topic, let’s get it added to the s3 clones listing:

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Setting up backup and image uploads to Backblaze B2

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