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Replace Cloudinary / AWS S3 Egress with Self-Hosted MinIO + imgproxy

High-performance S3-compatible object storage paired with on-the-fly WebP/AVIF image resizing in Go Stop paying Plus ($89–$224/mo bandwidth & image transforms) ($89/mo for a 10-person team) and run MinIO + imgproxy on a $4.50/mo Linux VPS with full data sovereignty.

10-Seat Annual Savings

+$1,014 / yr

vs Cloudinary / AWS S3 Egress standard plan

Container RAM & vCPU

512 MB RAM

1.0 vCPU • Migration: Very Easy (100% AWS S3 SDK compatible)

Recommended Cloud Box

$4.50/mo VPS

Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU)

1-to-100 Seat Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Table

Comparing Cloudinary / AWS S3 Egress (Plus ($89–$224/mo bandwidth & image transforms)) vs MinIO + imgproxy on Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU).

Team Size	Cloudinary / AWS S3 Egress Cost	MinIO + imgproxy VPS	Net Annual Savings
1 Seat (Solo)	$89.00/mo ($1,068/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$1,014 / year
5 Seats	$89.00/mo ($1,068/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$1,014 / year
10 Seats	$89.00/mo ($1,068/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$1,014 / year
25 Seats	$89.00/mo ($1,068/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$1,014 / year
50 Seats	$89.00/mo ($1,068/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$1,014 / year
100 Seats	$89.00/mo ($1,068/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$1,014 / year

Production Docker Compose + Caddy Auto-SSL

Copy and run docker compose up -d on any Ubuntu 24.04 server.

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# Production Docker Compose: MinIO + imgproxy (Replaces Cloudinary / AWS S3 Egress)
services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy:2-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile:ro
      - caddy_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

  minio-imgproxy:
    image: minio/minio:latest
    container_name: stack-minio-imgproxy
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "MINIO_ROOT_USER=admin"
      - "MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD=${MINIO_PASSWORD:-strongpassword123}"
    volumes:
      - minio_imgproxy_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

networks:
  stack_net:
    driver: bridge

volumes:
  caddy_data:
  minio_imgproxy_data:

Caddyfile (Automatic HTTPS Reverse Proxy):

# Automatic Let's Encrypt HTTPS for MinIO + imgproxy
minio-imgproxy.{$DOMAIN:yourdomain.com} {
  encode zstd gzip
  reverse_proxy minio-imgproxy:9000
}

Why Teams Switch to MinIO + imgproxy

✓Drop-in AWS S3 replacement with $0 egress on Hetzner/Vultr
✓imgproxy converts to WebP/AVIF on the fly
✓Built-in web console & bucket policies

GitHub Repository minio/minio

Official Website min.io

Docker Image minio/minio:latest

Database Needed Built-in / SQLite

1-Click Cloud VPS Hosting

Deploy MinIO + imgproxy in 60 Seconds

Sized automatically for MinIO + imgproxy (512MB container RAM + OS overhead).

Hetzner Cloud (CX22)

Includes €20 Free Cloud Credit

$4.50/mo →

DigitalOcean Droplet

Includes $200 60-Day Free Credit

$24.00/mo →

Railway.app Managed Container

Zero server maintenance

$5.00/mo →

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