MinIO

“starts and stops instantly and reads & writes to a local directory”

“AGPL is a plague. So many possible partners or future stewards won't touch anything minIO with a ten foot pole”

“if all you need is basic object storage that works with existing S3 clients, then MinIO is enough”

“I still find it useful as a local blob storage and no big code changes to cut over to s3 since it's the same APIs”

“You should probably reconsider going with it in 2026 unless you're fine with their new (non -opensource) offering.”

“You get free S3-compatible object storage with zero ongoing storage costs with MinIO”

“it was super easy setup that would take far more of both hardware and work to replicate to ceph”

“Minio served its purpose. I used it as S3 compatible storage to create tutorials.”

“When a company surfs on the open source wave to get contributions, grow penetration, then smoothly slows maintenance”

“What is especially annoying is the aistor/minio business model, either get the „free“ version or pay about 100k”

“either get the „free“ version or pay about 100k”

“we’re going all-in on AI, so we’re killing our previous product for both open source and commercial users”

“This is the latest of a sunset trap set for those of us who use Minio for local testing but not production use.”

“The choice of AGPL tells you that they wanted to be the only commercial source of the software from the beginning.”

“It's very robust in the face of drive & server failure, is simple to manage on bare hardware with ansible.”

“Licenses like the AGPLv3 (which min.io used here) can be problematic on that front”

“That is kind of neat because CCTV cameras have an option to upload a picture of motion detected to an FTP server”

“very few things which are good and free today will stay that way tomorrow”

“MinIO was the only option with sufficient performance for this particular situation”

“MinIO objects would randomly become corrupted, which MinIO would present as "you're making too many requests, please slow down"”

“In an early test we were running it against MinIO with zero redundancy. Which is not recommended in any case.”

“some of those things like minio and mattermost are complaints about the free tier”

“Minio have full on ACLs so you can just create a key that can only write/read but not change any settings like that.”

“something blocked it from reaching the 20-25 gigabits (on a 25g NIC) that MinIO could reach”

“trying to close source what has been opensource for a decade or trying to reduce features is very strange”

“The moves they have been making seem to be similar to what one would see if the VC money was getting tight”

“Not as bad as copyright assignment, but still asymmetric (they can relicense for commercial use, but you only get AGPL).”

“it was a lot more cost effective and performant to create a minio cluster for that data than to use S3.”

“POSIX loses since it's relatively little value for a relatively large amount of complexity”

“the 20-25 gigabits (on a 25g NIC) that MinIO could reach”

“Minio is literally "point it at storage(s), done". And at far smaller RAM usage.”

“I don't understand yet exactly what MinIO would add on top of that to make it relevant at any scale.”

“their paid version which is way too expensive for most use cases”

“it was very simple to setup, and even if you just leased a bunch of servers off say OVH, far FAR cheaper to run your own”

“Minio is/was pretty solid product for places where rack of servers for Ceph wasn't an option”

“It is bad that the control plane responses can be malformed XML”

“there is an CVE in that version that allows any account level to increase their own permissions to admin level”

“it was the last update before they neutered the community version”

“Start open source to use free advertising and community programmer, and then dumps it all for commercial licensing.”

“bit jarring to go from this is worth something people will pay for to maintenance mode in quick succession”