MinIO on VPS: Your Own S3 Storage in 15 Minutes

Cloud & DevOps · 19.04.2026
MinIO on VPS: Your Own S3 Storage in 15 Minutes

MinIO: Your Own S3 Storage on VPS

MinIO is S3-compatible object storage for media files, backups, and ML datasets on your VPS.

Docker Compose Setup

version: '3.8'
services:
  minio:
    image: minio/minio:latest
    ports:
      - "9000:9000"
      - "9001:9001"
    volumes:
      - /data/minio:/data
    environment:
      MINIO_ROOT_USER: minioadmin
      MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD: StrongPassword123!
    command: server /data --console-address ":9001"

MinIO Client

mc alias set myminio https://s3.yourdomain.com minioadmin StrongPassword123!
mc mb myminio/website-uploads
mc policy set public myminio/website-uploads
Tip: Enable versioning: mc version enable myminio/backups
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