# The NixOS Foundation's Call to Action: S3 Costs Require Community Support

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672
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**Created:** [June 2, 2023, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672 "2023-06-02T18:15:26Z")
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### Author: ![vdot0x23](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/vdot0x23/32/1930_2.png) [@vdot0x23](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/vdot0x23)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-nixos-foundations-call-to-action-s3-costs-require-community-support/28672/11 "2023-06-02T21:22:10Z")

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> [@RaitoBezarius](#):
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> Finally, while I am not super fond of this solution, have we considered university mirrors like many other distributions do it and have we considered working with them towards that?

At [dotsrc.org](http://dotsrc.org) we would love to help but have only ~17 TB of free space since our mirrors mostly run on decommissioned hardware and a relatively low budget.  
I do not know what kind of storage other mirrors have, I guess it varies a lot (see [TUNA Nix mirror](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-tuna-nix-mirror/6144)), but I would be surprised if this route is feasible (especially on a 1 month deadline).

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