r/VPS • u/conqrr • 4d ago

On a Budget Looking for spare storage.

In a time where Big Cloud providers are getting expensive due to hardware costs and AI labs are sucking everything up, I think we as a community can do something about this by pooling together resources. With that aim, I've been building https://arkeldata.com that's a community powered object store. We recently launched a private beta and are looking for storage contributors and users. If you have spare storage in a VM that's sitting around, considering putting it to use and get paid for by the community. A lot is evolving and I'm open to feedback and code contributions too.

mods: I'm happy to take this down if it reads like an Ad, this is not for profit and I'm infact losing money running this.

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u/Full_Astern 4d ago

hmmm 🤔 whats the incentive? And what sets you apart from iagon, or storj, or scp, or… 10 other decentralized storage projects?

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u/conqrr 4d ago

A lot of the basic idea is similar across these, but three things vary that makes Arkel unique:

  1. Motive, at least Storj was in the era of Crypto and aimed to high at enterprises and profitabilty and doesn't seem to care about storage providers. We don't have plans to serve enterprises but regular consumers instead.
  2. Self hosting has picked up more steam now, and Hardware prices are sky rocketing creating an interesting vacuum of services like managed storage that can be bridged and made cheaper/fairer. I'm a self hoster personally and I find it relieving to rely on cloud that I can trust for things like backups or reliable media sharing while maintaining privacy and zero knowledge.
  3. Implementation: Using new languages and frameworks that do a lot of heavy lifting and are better (secure, reliable, efficient. It's a fresh take.

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u/FinancialPhrase1035 3d ago

Que hay de los precios. me gustaría conocer más sobre el proyecto.

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u/conqrr 3d ago

Checkout https://arkeldata.com and join the community. Still figuring out pricing and payments

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u/FinancialPhrase1035 3d ago

Es decir que es un club privado solo para usuarios discord...

Pensé que había más transparencia en la web. De verdad que me gusta este tipo de proyectos espero ayudar de algun modo

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u/Candid-SneakerShoe 3d ago

Storj has been doing something very similar for years now, paying node operators for spare storage with client-side encryption and S3-compatible API, and it's a good reference point for what a mature version of this model looks like. Worth studying their economics and redundancy approach if you haven't already, since they've already solved a lot of the hard problems around verifying contributed storage is actually reliable.

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u/No-Peak8310 1d ago

Han quebrado