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  • @Romulus I thank you for your input I really do and knowledge is king. So thank you, We do have trouble using some services due to the nature of out business " I will let you work that out" for this reason many services will not handle our content, we are big in the area we service and growing fast, I would really prefer a method of using a second server just to use the disk space if this is possible within the archtecture of simplicity. I know its not perfection in any way, I have studied your posts in detail and this would be great of course to impliment the Amazon s3 but I have spoken with them in person and they would not handle our content. We probably have around 14 days of space left, so it is paramount to find a solution . Just to give you the picture in brief we have 2 una sites and a range of other sites including TV & Radio an other servers. I do enjoy your posts they are always full of knowledge that I appreciate your time and effort. Simon

    • If you build your own private cloud with OpenStack, you no longer need Amazon S3 or other external cloud providers. With Swift (object storage), OpenStack natively supports an S3-compatible REST API, which means your applications can work with it just like with Amazon S3.

      • No dependency on Amazon: You have your own S3-compatible infrastructure.
      • Built-in acceleration: Swift can serve as your own CDN-like system, with replication and geographic distribution depending on how many servers and datacenters you deploy.
      • Scalability: The only real requirement is to add more servers to scale capacity and performance.
      • Flexibility: While Amazon integrates features like billing or log delivery into S3, these are not core storage functions. With OpenStack, you can extend or integrate similar services if needed, but you remain in full control.

      You can create unlimited cloud servers and host as many sites as you need.

      The only limitation is the number of servers running the OpenStack core services.

      This makes OpenStack highly scalable and ideal for growing applications.

      In short: Your private cloud becomes your own CDN and S3-compatible storage system, powered by your hardware, without relying on Amazon.

      • If you already have a server with enough disk space, we can configure it as a simple NFS storage, mounted as a folder inside the UNA application. This works as a temporary solution, but keep in mind that disks will fill up quickly, and scaling will become difficult.

        In the long run, the best and most scalable solution is OpenStack, which lets you expand your infrastructure seamlessly with dedicated storage and compute nodes.

        The choice is yours: do you want to set up the NFS server now as a short-term fix, or do you prefer to go straight to OpenStack for a long-term solution?