Is AIStor Free really free like they claim here https://www.min.io/pricing, i.e

  Free
  For developers, researchers, enthusiasts, small organizations, and anyone comfortable with a standalone deployment.
  Full-featured, single-node deployment architecture
  Self-service community Slack and documentation support
  Free of charge

The thing is that we always sell the product in intermediates that would pack it up and sell it in a much higher price. I don't know of any small producer that sells the product directly to the consumer. This seems like a very big investment and not really sustainable. Are there other people that are doing it?

Could my knowledge as a software engineer help that family business in any way to be more profitable ?

Also even in procedural languages there are some problems that are easier to understand and model if you use recursion, for example tree or graph like structures.

However Adam Johnson mentioned django-tasks as the reference implementation that may be included in Django here https://adamj.eu/tech/2025/12/03/django-whats-new-6.0/.

My only (small) complain with this release would be that they included the task framework but didn't include a task backend and worker. I'd prefer to wait a bit and include everything in the next version.

Here's a simple script that does it automagically (you'll need golang installed):

> build-minio-ver.sh

  #!/bin/bash
  set -e

  VERSION=$(git ls-remote --tags https://github.com/minio/minio.git | \
  grep -Eo 'RELEASE\.[0-9T-]+Z' | sort | tail -n1)

  echo "Building MinIO $VERSION ..."

  rm -rf /tmp/minio-build
  git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minio/minio.git /tmp/minio-build

  cd /tmp/minio-build
  git fetch --tags
  git checkout "$VERSION"

  echo "Building minio..."

  CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -trimpath \
  -ldflags "-s -w \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.Version=$VERSION \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.ReleaseTag=$VERSION \
  -X github.com/minio/minio/cmd.CommitID=$(git rev-parse HEAD)" \
  -o "$OLDPWD/minio"

  echo " Binary created at: $(realpath "$OLDPWD/minio")"

  "$OLDPWD/minio" --version

The UI was useful when first configuring the buckets and permissions; if you've got it working (and don't need to change anything) you're good to go. Also, everything can be configured without the UI (not so easily of course).

So if the minio maintainers (or anybody that forks the project and wants to work it) can fix any security issues that may occur I don't see any problems with using it.

For 15 minute cloudflare wasn't working and the status page did not mentioned anything. Yes, right now the status page mentions the serious network problem but for some time our pages were not working and we didn't know what was happening.

So for ~ 15 minutes the status page lied. The whole point of a status page is to not lie, i.e to be updated automatically when there are problem and not by a person that needs to get clearance on what and how to write.

However the https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ does not really mention anything relevant. What's the point of having a status page if it lies ?

Update Ah I just checked the status and now I get a big red warning (however the problem existed for like 15 minutes before 11:48 UTC):

> Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC