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RELEASE · 04 OCT 2026

Control Gates: Set What Each Action Costs

Every action the Storm Buckets dashboard can take now carries a gate you choose. Open, your password, an email code, your authenticator, or closed, set per action.

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DISPATCH · 11 JUN 2026

MinIO's community edition is archived. What still runs in 2026

MinIO's community edition is archived. What actually changed, what it means if you run it, and the open-source S3 options still maintained in 2026.

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Buyer's Guide · Price Comparison 12 min read

S3 storage without the catch, compared honestly.

Flat CAD pricing, no lock-in, no surprise egress bills, and a stack you can audit. See exactly how it stacks up against AWS, Cloudflare R2, and Backblaze, our own numbers included.

S3-compatible
Open, auditable stack
No lock-in
No surprise bills
Simple flat pricing

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Storage /mo · egress CAD

Storm Buckets Canada

$9 egress3x capacity, throttle

Backblaze B2 USA

~$8.20 egress3x capacity, $0.01/GB

Cloudflare R2 USA

~$20.50 egress$0/GB

AWS S3 USA

~$31.50 egress$0.09/GB

Storage per TB/month and egress, CAD. US figures converted ~1.37 for context. Confirmed Jun 2026.

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Backup · The 3-2-1 Rule

Storm is the copy that lives somewhere else.

The standard backup practice is three copies of your data, on two kinds of media, with one of them off-site. Point rclone, Restic, Veeam, Duplicati or your NAS at a Storm Bucket and that off-site copy sits in Canada, on hardware you do not have to run.

Bring your data in, or keep a copy off-site

Standard durability is single-zone, RAID6-backed, one Canadian provider. It survives disk failure. It does not survive losing the provider, so keep your own primary.

Storm Sites · Static Hosting

Your bucket is also a website.

Point a domain at a Storm Bucket and the static files serve. A stormsites.ca subdomain out of the box, or your own custom domain. The same bucket holds your storage and your site, Canadian-hosted, hosting included in the block.

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Open Source · AGPLv3

Open-source server agent.

Storm Pulse is the agent that runs on every Storm-operated server. Outbound-only, HMAC-signed, with a strict execution whitelist. The thing running on your hardware is always auditable.

$ pip install storm-pulse-agent

$ git clone https://git.stormdevelopments.ca/official-public/storm-pulse

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