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Backblaze is slow for Nextcloud. Any recommendations for faster s3 compatible storage? (lemmy.today)

submitted 11 months ago by bender223@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been using Backblaze B2 as "External Storage" connected to my Nextcloud on a vps, but it seems unreasonably slow. I've tried Linode/Akamai, and it seems faster, but it's more expensive. I've heard that Wasabi is fast, but they have weird terms and conditions where you actually have to pay for 3 months of data retention, which makes them sus.

I mention s3 compatible, but that's only because that's all I've known, so if there are other options that are relatively cheap, and are faster than Backblaze, I'm open to it.

I have Backblaze connected via the External Storage app in Nextcloud, cuz I'm running Nextcloud AIO in Docker. I know s3 storage can be setup as the main storage, but that requires setting things up manually. AIO is much easier, and I'm not a pro at this stuff. And I'm not sure how much of a performance increase it would even be.

Just for reference, I've set up a Nextcloud instance for work on a Linode vps at 2 cores and 4GB RAM, using their s3 compatible storage as external storage, and it's decently fast. My personal Nextcloud is a Racknerd vps at 4 cores and 4GB RAM, with backblaze as external storage, and it's slower than my work's instance. (both are AIO)

In terms of pricing Backblaze is $6/month for 1TB, while Linode is $10/month for 250GB, and about $20/month for 1TB.

Who knows, at the end of the day, I may just have to bite the bullet and pay more for Linode for the faster storage.

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[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

I haven't used nextcloud in years. Has it gotten any better with external storages, specifically when there are many files in one directory? It used to time out/become unresponsive in that situation, and make many unnecessary database requests/updates.