So, I was working on a launcher for a few FNaF: Security Breach mods and I needed a place to host it's files and the mods. The launcher was about 70MB, one mod was 80MB and the other one 400MB.

Now, here's my issue: GCS was expensive as sh*t. In a single week it ate up one third of the free trial. Sure, I did host old versions for the sake of having a backup but honestly those prices were too high.

That simply isn't an issue with Spaces. They provide predictable costs and the host is just good. It does the job perfectly fine.

Minio is a free and open source object storage system. It can be self-hosted and is S3 compatible. During the early stage it would save cost and allow us to move to a different object storage when we scale up. It is also fast and easy to set up. This is very useful during development since it can be run on localhost.

We choose Backblaze B2 because it makes more sense for storing static assets.

We admire Backblaze's customer service & transparency, plus, we trust them to maintain fair business practices - including not raising prices in the future.

Lower storage costs means we can keep more data for longer, and lower bandwidth means cache misses don't cost a ton.

We offer our customer HIPAA compliant storage. After analyzing the market, we decided to go with Google Storage. The Nodejs API is ok, still not ES6 and can be very confusing to use. For each new customer, we created a different bucket so they can have individual data and not have to worry about data loss. After 1000+ customers we started seeing many problems with the creation of new buckets, with saving or retrieving a new file. Many false positive: the Promise returned ok, but in reality, it failed.

That's why we switched to S3 that just works.