Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-Hosted Object Storage
by zdw on 4/17/2026, 2:29:11 PM
https://blog.healthchecks.io/2026/04/healthchecks-io-now-uses-self-hosted-object-storage/
Comments
by: chasd00
> The costs have increased: renting an additional dedicated server costs more than storing ~100GB at a managed object storage service. But the improved performance and reliability are worth it.<p>Were your users complaining about reliability and performance? If it cost more, adds more work (backup/restore management), and the users aren't happier then why make the change in the first place?
4/17/2026, 5:12:07 PM
by: smjburton
> In March 2026, I migrated to self-hosted object storage powered by Versity S3 Gateway.<p>Thanks for sharing this, I wasn't even aware of Versity S3 from my searches and discussions here. I recently migrated my projects from MinIO to Garage, but this seems like another viable option to consider.
4/17/2026, 3:55:27 PM
by: choilive
Moved object storage from AWS to CloudFlare and have been pretty happy. No problems with performance so far. Bills were 90% cheaper too (free bandwidth)
4/17/2026, 5:00:01 PM
by: tobilg
I don't get it, if it's running on the same (mentioning "local") machine, why does it even need the S3 API? Could just be plain IO on the local drive(s)
4/17/2026, 2:55:29 PM
by: lsb
Self Hosted object storage looks neat!<p>For this project, where you have 120GB of customer data, and thirty requests a second for ~8k objects (0.25MB/s object reads), you’d seem to be able to 100x the throughput vertically scaling on one machine with a file system and an SSD and never thinking about object storage. Would love to see why the complexity
4/17/2026, 3:19:24 PM
by: _joel
I'm sure it's a lot better now but everytime I see btrfs I get PTSD.
4/17/2026, 2:45:57 PM
by: iamcreasy
Given the individual file size and total volume, I'd argue it make sense to use move to local only storage.<p>On a separate note, what tool is the final benchmark screenshot form?
4/17/2026, 4:25:30 PM