How much RAM does Garage need?

Plan on 2–4 GB for typical use; add headroom if you expect many concurrent users.

Can I run other things on the same VPS?

Yes — size the plan so Garage plus your other workloads fit in RAM with room to spare.

Data

A lightweight, geo-distributed S3 store.

An S3-compatible object store designed to run across cheap, heterogeneous nodes with low overhead.

Garage is lighter than MinIO for small clusters and happy on modest hardware across locations.

1
Provision a VPS
Choose a plan with room for your data as well as the app.
2
Install the stack
Install Single Rust binary.
3
Deploy the application
Follow the project’s official install guide for your distribution.
4
Enable HTTPS
Serve it on your own domain behind a reverse proxy with a certificate.
5
Back it up
Schedule a database dump plus a copy of any uploaded files to an off-box location.

Give Garage its own database user with rights only on its own schema.
Reverse-proxy Garage and terminate TLS at the proxy so certificates are managed in one place.
Take a VPS snapshot before major upgrades so you can roll back cleanly.
Keep Garage patched — most self-hosting incidents are unpatched software.

How much RAM does Garage need?: Plan on 2–4 GB for typical use; add headroom if you expect many concurrent users.
What stack does Garage run on?: Single Rust binary.
Can I run other things on the same VPS?: Yes — size the plan so Garage plus your other workloads fit in RAM with room to spare.

Looking for something else? Popular alternatives include MinIO, SeaweedFS, Ceph — browse all app guides.