Stop paying for Dropbox or Google Drive — use your own S3 bucket instead

A Hacker News thread proposes using self-hosted S3-compatible storage instead of Dropbox or Google Drive.

Commenters pointed to alternatives like Syncthing, MinIO, Backblaze, and running local blob storage.

Some users noted commercial cloud storage costs about $20–30 per TB per month on AWS/GCP, while R2 can be cheaper and include traffic.

One user said they run two replicas of Garage on a 16TB OVH server costing $35/month for backup.