# MinIO, Garage, S3 object storage alternatives

**URL:** <https://forum.yunohost.org/t/minio-garage-s3-object-storage-alternatives/41803>\
**Category:** Discuss\
**Tags:** storage, english\
**Created:** [March 11, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/minio-garage-s3-object-storage-alternatives/41803 "2026-03-11T21:50:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/e0b2c6/32.png) [@wbk](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/wbk)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/minio-garage-s3-object-storage-alternatives/41803/1 "2026-03-11T21:50:33Z")

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### Discuss

Hi all,

I found myself with a postponed project to provide S3 storage as a target for services and people on my Yunohost.

I recalled there being a number of Free Software S3 compatible object storage projects so set out to at least get a feel of the lay of the land. MinIO came to mind, but the others had faded too far to the back of my mind to recall directly.

After a search in the catalog and on the internet, I came up, alphabetically, with :

- Ceph
- Garage
- MinIO
- SeaweedFS

Ceph is on the list because although it is not in the YNH catalog, it can be activated on the Proxmox that runs my YNH. Reading a bit more, Garage became my favourite (not in the least because it is developed by _Twoflower_, so it must be almost but not quite magic 😉 )

[Their introduction](https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/blog/2022-introducing-garage/) matches my view on self hosting.

All of the projects in the catalog all do without stars (thank you oth33GH, eric\_g, Thovi98 for your trouble!) which I’ll rectify for Garage. There are not so many posts about object storage on the forum, and that was reason for this post.

As a _very_ superficial comparison, a benefit and drawback for each of the projects:

- Ceph  
(+) GPL v3  
(+) Very flexible (well, it’s in the name, more or less)  
(-) Not in YNH catalog
- Garage  
(+) AGPL v3  
(+) Backed by _Twoflower_  
(+) Not developed on Github  
(+) Optimized for high latency environments  
(+) [Lightweight](https://web.archive.org/https://dev.to/alexneamtu/how-we-replaced-minio-with-garage-for-self-hosted-s3-storage-23f7)  
(-) Somewhat narrower featureset in a recent [comparison](https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.glukhov.org/data-infrastructure/object-storage/garage-vs-minio-vs-s3/)  
(-) Lower performance in an unspecified [benchmark](https://web.archive.org/https://www.repoflow.io/blog/benchmarking-self-hosted-s3-compatible-storage-a-practical-performance-comparison)
- MinIO  
(+) AGPL v3  
(-) Development ceased in favour of enterprise customers  
(-) YNH package is not expected to see updates anymore
- SeaweedFS  
(+) Many different file service endpoints/protocols  
(-) MIT/Apache  
(-) Commercial entity, foreshadowing a MinIO-like exit

Well, that’s it for now, time for me to start installing!

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**Author:** ![Tho](https://forum.yunohost.org/user_avatar/forum.yunohost.org/tho/32/3667_2.png) [@Tho](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Tho)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/minio-garage-s3-object-storage-alternatives/41803/2 "2026-03-12T06:50:07Z")

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> [@wbk](#):
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> All of the projects in the catalog all do without stars

Yeah there is a bug right now for some apps where all the stars are gone (and cannot be added anymore?)

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**Author:** ![emo](https://forum.yunohost.org/user_avatar/forum.yunohost.org/emo/32/2751_2.png) [@emo](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/emo)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/minio-garage-s3-object-storage-alternatives/41803/3 "2026-03-12T09:07:34Z")

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la suite team consider rustfs as replacement.