Due to image hosting taking up the bulk of space and cost growing prohibitive on VPSs, I have migrated Civilloquy’s image hosting to Backblaze. For context, with most VPSs, to upgrade the storage, you have to upgrade everything and it’s a major jump in cost. You have the cheapo tier with, say, 20 GB; then the next tier for twice the price with twice the storage, twice the vCPUs, etc.; then the next tier with double everything again. I started running out of space on an already upgraded plan this week, and upgrading would have pushed my financial constraints for hosting this for a temporary bandaid.

Instead, I migrated to object storage, where you can just pay for the storage you need, independent of anything else and at a much reduced price. Backblaze B2 is significantly cheaper than any other option, and I have had good experiences with them in the past, so that is what is being used now.

The migration required taking the site down for most of yesterday evening, and some residual space issues caused some instability this morning, but now everything seems to be working well.