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Fully Managed MinIO
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Deploy MinIO as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

MinIO is an open-source, S3-compatible object storage server — buckets, objects, and the S3 API that most cloud-storage tools already speak. It gives you a private storage endpoint with the convenience of a managed service, without the per-gigabyte transfer bill of a public cloud store. One caveat worth knowing up front: the open-source edition is no longer updated upstream, which shapes how we run it.

What to know first
MinIO's open-source edition changed in 2025

The web admin console was reduced to a basic object browser, and full bucket, user, and policy management moved to the vendor's paid edition. In February 2026 the upstream project was marked no longer maintained. We run a pinned, known-good release so its behaviour stays stable, and you manage it through the S3 API, the mc command-line client, and a terminal in your dashboard. If you need ongoing upstream security patches or the full web console, a maintained S3-compatible project will fit you better — and we will say so before you start a trial.

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€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is MinIO

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server. It stores unstructured data — files, backups, logs, media, datasets — as objects in buckets, reachable through the same S3 API that public cloud storage uses. It is written in Go and released under the AGPLv3 license.

MinIO is maintained by MinIO, Inc., and for most of the last decade it was a default choice for self-hosted object storage — the project's flagship repository carries roughly 60,000 stars and over a billion container image pulls. It speaks the S3 API closely enough that tools built for Amazon S3 — SDKs, backup software, and data pipelines — work against it by changing the endpoint and credentials.

In 2025 the project's direction shifted toward its commercial edition. The web admin console in the open-source build was reduced to a basic object browser, and in February 2026 the flagship community repository was marked as no longer maintained. We host MinIO with that reality in mind, which is what the rest of this page explains.

FEATURES

What MinIO does

MinIO is an object store with the S3 feature set teams actually use day to day. These are MinIO's own capabilities — what the software does — separate from the managed baseline DANIAN puts around it.

S3-compatible API

Speaks the Amazon S3 API, so existing SDKs, CLIs, and backup tools connect by changing the endpoint and keys.

Bucket versioning

Keep prior versions of an object, so an overwrite or delete can be rolled back to an earlier state.

Server-side encryption

Encrypt object data at the server with SSE, including customer- or key-managed keys, before it is written to disk.

Bucket lifecycle rules

Expire or move objects automatically after a set age, so old data does not pile up unattended.

Buckets and objects

Organise data into buckets with prefixes, store objects of any type, and address them with standard S3 paths.

Object locking (WORM)

Hold objects write-once-read-many for a set retention window, so they cannot be changed or removed in that period.

Identity and access policies

Define users, service accounts, and S3 policies, managed through the mc command-line client.

Bucket replication

Replicate a bucket to another endpoint for a second copy, configured from the command line.

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed MinIO

The move to managed MinIO usually starts with one of two events: a public-cloud storage bill dominated by data-transfer-out charges, or the 2025 changes to MinIO's open-source edition that left self-hosters maintaining an admin-less, now-unmaintained server themselves.

Running object storage yourself is more than starting a container. You own the TLS certificate and its renewal, the network firewall, the access keys, and the backups — and for an object store, the backup question is sharper than usual, because a copy on the same disk is not a backup at all. A single-drive MinIO has no redundancy: one failed disk and the data is gone.

The 2025 changes raised the bar again. With the web admin console reduced to a basic object browser and the upstream repository no longer maintained, a self-hoster now manages buckets, users, and policies from the command line and carries the security risk of running software that no longer ships fixes. We took a position on this so customers do not have to: we pin a known-good release, keep its behaviour fixed, and put a managed box around it.

On our side, every MinIO instance gets:
  • A pinned, known-good release, kept stable rather than moved under you.
  • A TLS endpoint and network firewall, set up for you.
  • An encrypted off-site backup every day, in a separate datacenter — so your object data is copied off the machine it runs on.
  • A terminal in the dashboard for the mc client, plus 24/7 human help when a change needs a person.

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

Successful businesses and professionals around the world rely on DANIAN every day

USE CASES

Three teams who run MinIO on DANIAN

These are representative team types we set up most often. Each starts with the same flat €9 plan.

12-PERSON SAAS STARTUP

Moving user uploads off a transfer-metered cloud bill

Stores around 25 GB of customer file uploads and serves close to 1 TB a month from the app. Runs in a region next to their application servers, behind TLS, with versioning on so an overwritten file can be recovered. The flat €9 replaced a transfer bill that climbed every month.

BACKUP TARGET FOR AN IT TEAM

An S3 target that is itself backed up

Points restic and Velero at MinIO for nightly snapshots, with object locking set so a backup cannot be altered inside its retention window. Picked a region away from their primary site. Our encrypted off-site copy means the backup target is not a single point of failure.

AGENCY HOSTING A CLIENT STACK

Object storage under a self-hosted app, without becoming a host

Runs MinIO as the S3 backend for a client's self-hosted tools, on a custom domain, in a region near the client's users. Manages keys from the dashboard terminal and leaves patching, TLS, and backups to us — one flat line on the client invoice.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run MinIO

Object storage can be rented by the gigabyte, self-hosted on a server, run at home, or managed for a flat fee. The honest cost of each depends less on storage than on data transfer and the hours you spend operating it. Here is a representative workload: about 30 GB stored and 1 TB served per month.

 PATHMONTHLY COSTYOUR OPS TIMEWHO PATCHES ITCONSOLE & STORAGE
Proprietary cloud
(Amazon S3)
≈ $85*~0 hrsVendorNo console to run; about 98% of this profile is data-transfer-out
Self-host
on a $24/mo production-class VPS
≈ €100–280 effective1–2 hrs/moYou — upstream no longer ships fixesConsole reduced to object browser; CLI management
Home server
(e.g. Synology DS923+)
≈ €210–667 effective2–4 hrs/moYouHome upload bandwidth caps how fast you can serve objects
DANIAN Managed MinIO€9 flat0 hrsWe pin a known-good release30 GB + 1 TB transfer included, up to 16 TB storage; terminal + object browser

*Amazon S3 Standard at $0.023/GB stored plus $0.09/GB data-transfer-out after the first 100 GB free; about 30 GB stored and 1 TB out works out near $85/month, almost all of it transfer.
For very large archives you rarely read, S3's cold-storage tiers cost less per gigabyte at rest. A flat plan wins when you serve data regularly and want a bill that does not move.

BY INDUSTRY

MinIO for specific industries

Object storage puts different demands on different teams. A studio cares about large-file transfers; a backup admin cares about objects that cannot be altered; an ML team cares about the S3 SDK its tools already use. These five sections cover where managed MinIO fits — and where it does not.

Software teams use MinIO as the S3-compatible store behind their own product — user uploads, generated files, and exports — without sending that traffic to a metered cloud bill. The operational standard here is the S3 API itself: signed requests, bucket policies, and presigned URLs that your application already speaks.

We run your instance in the region closest to your users and put TLS on the endpoint, so a download from the app is a local hop rather than a cross-ocean one. A common setup stores a few hundred thousand objects under 30 GB and serves around 1 TB a month — a profile where a metered cloud store is dominated by data-transfer-out charges, and the flat €9 plan is the predictable line item.
Studios and post houses keep large render assets, proxies, and delivered masters in object storage that every workstation and render node can reach over the S3 API. The relevant standard is multipart upload, which lets a multi-gigabyte file resume instead of restarting when a connection drops.

We enable bucket versioning by default, so an overwritten cut can be rolled back to the previous object rather than lost. Storage scales to 16 TB per instance, and you pick a region near the team doing the editing to keep transfers quick. For a small studio moving 1 to 2 TB of footage a month, the difference between a flat plan and per-gigabyte transfer pricing is the difference between a fixed cost and a variable one.
Data and machine-learning teams use MinIO as a local S3 endpoint for datasets, features, and model artifacts that training jobs read with the same S3 client they would point at a public cloud. The operational standard is S3 SDK compatibility, so tools like the AWS SDKs, boto3, and DVC connect by changing only the endpoint and keys.

We run the instance in the region where your compute lives, which keeps dataset reads on a short network path. Object locking with a retention window keeps a labelled dataset from being overwritten mid-experiment. A team holding tens of gigabytes of versioned datasets and pulling them repeatedly during training gets a flat, predictable cost instead of a transfer bill that grows with every epoch.
Research groups and labs store instrument output, simulation results, and shared datasets in S3-compatible storage that pipelines and notebooks read directly. The standard that matters is the S3 API plus object versioning, so a re-run that regenerates a result keeps the prior version addressable for reproducibility.

We put the instance in a region near the cluster or the collaborators, and your data stays in that region rather than moving to a default location you did not pick. Object locking can hold a published dataset immutable for a fixed window. For a lab with a few hundred gigabytes of results served to collaborators and pipelines, a flat monthly cost is easier to put on a grant than a transfer-metered invoice that varies month to month.
IT teams point backup tools at MinIO as an S3-compatible target — restic, Velero, Veeam, and similar all write to the S3 API. The operational standard here is object locking, write-once-read-many, which keeps a backup from being altered or deleted inside its retention window, including by a process that has the keys.

Because we keep an encrypted off-site copy of your instance in a separate datacenter, your backup target is itself backed up — the thing self-hosters most often forget. You choose the region, and storage scales to 16 TB. For a team protecting a few servers with nightly snapshots, the flat plan turns an unpredictable transfer-and-storage bill into one fixed line.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

No. MinIO's open-source console was reduced to a basic object browser in 2025, and full bucket, user, and policy management moved to the vendor's paid edition. You manage your instance through the S3 API, the mc command-line client, and a terminal in your dashboard.
No. In February 2026 the flagship community repository was marked no longer maintained. We run a pinned, known-good release so its behaviour stays fixed. If ongoing upstream security patches are a requirement for you, a maintained S3-compatible project is the better fit, and we will say so.
Through the mc command-line client and the S3 API, run from a terminal we expose in your dashboard. You can create buckets, set policies, manage service accounts, and configure lifecycle rules from there, and ask us on chat if you want a hand.
We keep an encrypted copy of your instance off-site every day, in a separate datacenter. If the host has a hardware failure, we restore from that copy. A same-disk copy is not a backup, which is exactly the trap self-hosted object storage falls into.
Yes. You can turn on bucket versioning to keep prior copies of an object, and object locking to hold objects write-once-read-many for a set retention window. Both are configured per bucket through the mc client or the S3 API.
We pin a known-good release and do not move it under you. When a change is warranted, we test it first and coordinate rather than pushing it silently. Because upstream is no longer maintained, holding a stable, vetted release is the safer default.
Yes. MinIO can encrypt object data at the server with SSE before it is written, including setups where you manage the keys. This is a MinIO capability you configure per bucket; it is separate from the encrypted off-site backups we keep of the whole instance.
Yes. Every instance gets a TLS endpoint by default, and you can put your own domain in front of it. We handle the certificate and its renewal, so your S3 endpoint is reachable over HTTPS without setup on your side.
The €9 plan starts with 30 GB of storage and 1 TB of transfer a month. Storage scales up to 16 TB per instance, and we change resources only with your consent first, so the bill never moves without you knowing.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
Usually only the endpoint and the access keys. Code written against the S3 API keeps working; you repoint it at your MinIO endpoint. Some libraries need path-style addressing enabled.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

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