The imagehoster was written to store images in S3 (amazon’s cloud-based filestorage system). To save on costs, we didn’t want to use S3 to store the images, so we’re currently storing the images on freenas file servers, using minio to support the S3 api.
What is the cost to store on s3?
Is it that much more than 63k?
Serving from s3 is a long term cost. And there's two separate cost components, storage and data serving. The goal of this work was to cut down the long term cost. Most of the 63K is a one-time cost associated with that effort. Also note that if we had stuck with S3, we still would have had costs associated with setting that up as well.