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

CrazyChef

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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
you can keep a copy/history of old files on s3 if you set it up that way.
r2, it doesn't.

if you trust your mods, or grant them the power to do so, it's a non-issue.

I don't use versioning on s3. if they delete the attachment, its gone forever.

- enable soft deletes only and it's a non-issue.
 
briansol said:
you can keep a copy/history of old files on s3 if you set it up that way.
r2, it doesn't.
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I'll use it mostly for the XFMG mostly, and also for XFRM as well. It's a new photography forum, so I expect it to be quite heavy with media.
I really don't understand what versioning is, or if I even need it. I'll be using R2/S3 mainly as a repository to keep from cluttering up my server and if I understand correctly, I probably won't need versioning? I'm using a Vultr HF server via Cloudways and my CDN is Cloudflare, if that matters.
 
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benFF said:
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.
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There's these things called backups. I don't have my only copy of my files on my cloud storage.

Restricting users and mods to only using soft deletes is the solution to accidental deletions.
 
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