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Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by mitjafelicijan »

uxenthusiast wrote: post #3

What kind of digital ocean plan did you get for your setup ? I've been thinking about putting together something similar but the price to get a reasonable amount of space seemed prohibitive.

I choose Spaces which costs $5 a month. And you don't actually need VPS for this.

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by __soter__ »

$5 for 250GB of storage and then $20 per TB ($0.02/GB) after that seems a bit steep.

  Plans and Pricing
  The base rate of a Spaces subscription is $5/month and gives you the ability to create multiple Spaces.
  The subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your Spaces). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02/GiB. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your Spaces, your bill will be prorated hourly.
https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by secfirstmd »

__soter__ wrote: post #5

$5 for 250GB of storage and then $20 per TB ($0.02/GB) after that seems a bit steep. Plans and Pricing The base rate of a Spaces subscription is $5/month and gives you the ability to create multiple Spaces. The subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your Spaces). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02/GiB. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your Spaces, your…

Interesting comparison price when something like Sia is so cheap per TB (4 dollars). Will be interesting to see how it developers.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by mitjafelicijan »

secfirstmd wrote: post #6
__soter__ wrote: post #5

$5 for 250GB of storage and then $20 per TB ($0.02/GB) after that seems a bit steep. Plans and Pricing The base rate of a Spaces subscription is $5/month and gives you the ability to create multiple Spaces. The subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your Spaces). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02/GiB. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your Spaces, your…

Interesting comparison price when something like Sia is so cheap per TB (4 dollars). Will be interesting to see how it developers.

It looks they also have S3 support now. Will need to try it out.

https://blog.sia.tech/introducing-s3-style-file-sharing-for-...

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by jrockway »

secfirstmd wrote: post #6
__soter__ wrote: post #5

$5 for 250GB of storage and then $20 per TB ($0.02/GB) after that seems a bit steep. Plans and Pricing The base rate of a Spaces subscription is $5/month and gives you the ability to create multiple Spaces. The subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your Spaces). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02/GiB. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your Spaces, your…

Interesting comparison price when something like Sia is so cheap per TB (4 dollars). Will be interesting to see how it developers.

I think $20/TB*month is exactly what GCP charges, and is probably on par with what Amazon charges.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by mitjafelicijan »

dyeje wrote: post #8

If you're cool with the spartan interface, why not use S3? Isn't most of the value prop on DO Spaces the CDN component?

With s3cmd you could use it with almost anything supporting S3. I work with AWS every day and am a bit shell shocked by it :) And for personal things I prefer DO. And my needs are low. My whole sync folder is about 5gb.

But yeah, I could use AWS S3. I agree.

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