Hey fediverse — I have some exciting news to share.
Over the past few years, I’ve been running a private cloud platform called BaezCloud, originally just for my own clients — fast, secure, privacy-respecting infrastructure tailored to real-world creative workflows.
What started as a personal solution grew into something bigger than I expected. And today, I’m proud to announce that it’s become its own fully independent company:
Nuvon is officially live.
Nuvon is a privacy-first, EU-hosted cloud infrastructure provider built from scratch with simplicity, transparency, and control at its core. We’re fully self-funded, running our own servers (no third-party “cloud”), and committed to serving individuals and small teams — not just enterprise whales.
At launch, we’re offering:
• Nuvon Drive – encrypted file sync & team cloud drive
• Nuvon SafeBackup – automated, secure server + endpoint backup
• Nuvon Photos – private photo hosting
Under the hood, we operate a serious Synology infrastructure, hosted in datacenters in the Czech Republic, currently with dual 25Gbps uplinks and loads of available bandwidth and capacity.
No throttling. No transfer limits. Just raw speed and control — the way it should be.
Because of our Synology ecosystem, we also offer seamless integration for anyone already using Synology NAS. We can extend your internal setup to remote collaborators and freelancers without sacrificing security or performance — or clogging your own pipe.
And for editors and creatives:
If you’re using Postlab, our cloud storage is already fully supported and certified. So whether you’re syncing a team project or backing up your production files, you can trust it’ll just work.
If any of this sounds useful, I’d love to chat.
You can DM me or book a quick intro call here:
https://booking.nuvon.io/felipe
Thanks to everyone who supported BaezCloud along the way.
Nuvon is just getting started — and we’re building it for people like you.
https://nuvon.io
#nuvon #selfhosted #privacyfirst #cloud #synology #objectstorage #filestorage #backup #photos #openforbusiness #postproduction #postlab #mastoads
#objectstorage
Mein neuer Blog-Artikel ist online!
Ich zeige, wie Du Mastodon-Medieninhalte flexibel und einfach mit dem S3-kompatiblen Hetzner Object Storage in die Cloud auslagerst, inkl. Migration, Nginx-Konfiguration und Backup mit Synology DiskStation.
Ideal für alle, die mehr Skalierbarkeit und Unabhängigkeit wollen.
Jetzt lesen: https://abshoff.dev/blog/2025/07/25/mastodon-und-hetzner-object-storage/
Great to hear that, @hetzner!
And it even works perfectly with Mastodon, as I show in my latest blog article: https://abshoff.dev/blog/2025/07/25/mastodon-und-hetzner-object-storage/ 
I don't know if anybody noticed #ZeroFS yet, but it seems there is a completely user space-implementation of #NFS and #blockstorage on top of #S3 #objectstorage: https://github.com/Barre/zerofs
Including a demo running #ZFS on top of it which essentially allows geo-redundant ZFS volumes: https://asciinema.org/a/728234 & https://github.com/Barre/zerofs?tab=readme-ov-file#geo-distributed-storage-with-zfs
I don't see no #FreeBSD port yet, but if that really works it would be absolutely awesome.
Reached out to them, they clarified:
"We are a very small team and don't have a dedicated lawyer, and my answer might be incorrect. But from what I remember, it is there because we don't have the legal right to display your content on our domain. And any links like https://s3.tebi.io/YOUR_BUCKET/YOUR_FILE will be illegal. This part grants us a legal right to have links like that, and don't be afraid that someday someone will sue us."
Ok, this makes sense in a way. Still not liking the wording, though.
Reviewing their ToS, I find this worrysome:
"Our Service allows You to post Content. You are responsible for the Content that You post to the Service, including its legality, reliability, and appropriateness.
By posting Content to the Service, You grant Us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through the Service. You retain any and all of Your rights to any Content You submit, post or display on or through the Service and You are responsible for protecting those rights. You agree that this license includes the right for Us to make Your Content available to other users of the Service, who may also use Your Content subject to these Terms. "
Because I am making some use of #S3 #ObjectStorage for both file storage and smaller backups, I am looking for #FOSS #Android Apps that can not only sync/put files to S3, but also gather data from there.
Is there anything like that out there? On #FDroid I only found two apps that can put data on S3 in a backup-style fashion. But I have not found an application that can download from there.
Orbit, our object storage service, has seen some improvements recently. A few new features, better S3 compatibility and improved performance. Fully UK owned and operated too: https://www.brightbox.com/blog/2025/01/14/orbit-object-storage-updates/
@lispi314 @enigmatico @bunnybeam @kimapr
nodds in agreement
- I think having a proper #API is a way to facilitate that, cuz worst-case one just slaps together some #aliases in #bash, #fish, #zsh or whatever #shell and just uses #curl to query stuff manually as this solves the whole #WebApp - issue.
And I do prefer #FLOSS as it works fine for an ever increasing audience!
- Even if we choose to point at bad #UX / #UI combos like #GnuPG, we've to also acknowledge better existing alternatives like #enc that just work!
Personally, I think that everything people are expected to use if not forced to use should be #OpenSource as licensed in a #OSI accredited license and be released with #SourceCode and #documentation to make #reproduceableBuilds and thus facilitate #audits by truly independent parties...
- And if that's not possible any requirement to using said things should be outlawed no matter the context!
A unsarcastically good example is #S3, even tho I hate #amazon, they wanted #developers to integrate their #ObjectStorage which necessitated an #open source'd API to the point that it's #backend is inherently reproduceable, and now every halfassing #Webhoster offers S3 #storage, sometimes with bit & second-precise billing.
@mrchrisadams Yeah, #S3-Style #ObjectStorage is nifty in many places.
- It's kinda good that whilst #amazon is a bad company, they basically had to "#OpenSource" S3 as a #specification so anyone would even bother to implement it at all, and basically every #hoster nowadays offers that with bit & second-precise billing if wanted, as it's more convenient to #FTP and other #quota / #fixed storage...
Okay I ran into my first issue with #IceShrimp.
I set up an #ObjectStorage and all of a sudden uploading images doesn't work properly anymore.
This is what my profile picture looks like if I try to upload it.
PS: I don't know if anyone can even see an image attached to this post. For me it shows as a blurry mess.
#MinIO è un'implementazione #OpenSource per l' #ObjectStorage su protocollo #S3 compatibile.
Potete installarlo #onprem e impostare con un paio di click la #replicazione e #ridondanza (anche off-site), risparmiare sullo storage veloce con il #tiering su HDD meccanici per i dati meno recenti, e #versionare i documenti con grande facilità. In più supporta la #cifratura dei dati e la prevenzione al #bitrot (corruzione silente dei dati).
Esiste qualcosa di meglio?
Using S3cmd to manage files on Orbit object storage
https://www.brightbox.com/docs/guides/orbit/s3cmd/
Any recommendations for #objectStorage without egress fees that's reliable and affordable, for 5TB?
I know of R2 (not cheap), B2 (egress), S3 (egress), Wasabi (90-day-store-required), I ran into Telnyx (not cheap either). I've tested iDrive E2 in the past but reliability was hit and miss.
Do you want to help improve Garage, an open-source #distributed #objectstorage service tailored for #selfhosting built in #rust ?
#Deuxfleurs has funding for a PhD thesis in France to work on Garage! Apply before 31st January, and start the PhD in September 2024.
The funding is mostly aimed at candidates outside of France.
For more info: there is a webinar on 12th January at 11 am CET, or email coucou@deuxfleurs.fr
All links and details here: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2024-01-phd-offering/
Boost welcome!
@vincent let's boost with some details:
#garage is an open-source #distributed #objectstorage service tailored for #selfhosting built in #rust #RustLang. Garage implements the Amazon #s3 API and allows to build a cluster with heterogeneous (and old) hardware. I loved that !
Source code: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage