If a service crashes while writing to S3, the incomplete multipart upload will sit there. Without cleanup policies in place, it will sit there forever, taking up space and costing money.
Today's lesson: enough crashes with large enough payloads, quickly racks up terabytes of "invisible" trash 😅💸
Being EU based is also nice!
Oh, and can't forget it's end-to-end encrypted, which is the reason I even found it in the first place 😅
Plus, it has clients for all platforms, even including a cli and a Docker container (with this cli), which will be pretty handy to automate backups to a NAS.
Trying out https://filen.io , to move my things off of Google Drive, and it's looking pretty interesting.
It includes some features that I've been looking for, but hadn't found generally available, like sync specific directories, file versions, an event log and a .gitignore like file to define exclusions.

Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage
Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. Get started with 10 GiB of free space.
"We call it: Siri AI" - so... what was it before? Siri Regex? 😂
If I did depend on that income though, this story wouldn’t be funny, it would be terrifying, because my livelihood could be in question, just because someone, or something, thought IPTV = illegal pirates 🏴☠️.
All of this to say (besides being a bit sad that for all the hundreds of thousands of views of my content, plus usage of my open source code and samples, only one person thought it was a worth contributing, but I digress), I don’t depend on the income from Buy Me a Coffee.
I’ve had the blog since 2016, started creating open source code samples by the same time, created the YouTube channel in 2017, and created my Buy Me a Coffee account in 2022. During all this time, I got a total of… 1 person "buying me a coffee".