To expand our operations, we will have to eventually scale our storage. To simply pay for a better VPS server is not scalable and very costly for us
The way forward is to pay for external storage I believe. Do you have any experiences with cloud storage you could share with us? We’re probably opting for Amazon S3 based on what they are able to deliver to us
I’m not sure why you are considering giving money to Amazon, please don’t, they can go fuck themselves. They lock you into using their services forever by having large egress fees for moving your data out. The popular open source NixOS project was hit with this recently and it highlighted this predatory issue: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672
Do you really have more than a few TB of data? I would be surprised if you do. Just use a cheap VPS for storage: https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/ has 2.4TB for 18$/month. Contabo has famously shitty support but they still have it and my experience with it has shown me that the cheap makes up for it.
I actually don’t understand how a wiki with 22,000 pages of text and 4,000 files can be “very costly” to host. Please don’t go the wikipedia route with the expenses.
This is precisely why I asked for advice beforehand. Thank you!
It’s not, we’re fine, but we need to think long-term for growth. We serve more than just one language, and they are growing. Plus, we are thinking of hosting our own communication server, something like Matrix or better. And we need to have storage ready for that.
I also noticed you’re not behind a CDN. There are free ones that will cache your content on servers around the world which serves your pages faster, saves you bandwidth and prevents you from getting DDOS’d. I would consider using a CDN.