Offsite Storage: Cloudflare R2 vs DigitalOcean S3 - Which would you choose and why?

[CrazyChef]

So I'm putting together a photography forum that will be resource heavy with the Resource Manager and the Media Gallery. I was looking at DigitalOcean's S3 storage, but Cloudflare's R2 storage is very appealing with it's ZERO egress/outbound bandwidth fees. Yeah, that's a huge advantage that Cloudflare has over DigitalOcean.

So I guess I'm also asking if anyone has successfully set up Cloudflare's R2 with both the RM and MG, and is there anything I should know before attempting this.

 

[Sim]

Definitely R2

Use this free addon by @digitalpoint - easy as: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/digitalpoint-app-for-cloudflare-r.8750/

 

[benFF]

The problem with R2 is it doesn't support versioning, otherwise I'd totally switch to it.

But no protection against accidental/malicious deletions is a no go for me.

 

[briansol]

I use s3, mostly because R2 didn't exist at the time i set it up, and i use s3 for backups and other CDN-type activities (behind cloudfront). So even if i were to migrate to r2, i'd still have s3 for other things.

with cloudfront and s3, you basically get r2, for a little bit more cost.

my $6 a month bill doesn't warrant the effort to move to r2 for $4 a month.

If i were to start today from scratch, i'd probably go R2