Infinite Sync for Your DigitalOcean Spaces
Since launching in 2012, DigitalOcean has quickly become a highly popular and respected infrastructure service provider. With over 1 million development customers signed up, they aim to present a simpler alternative to larger players such as AWS, Google, or Microsoft Azure.
As part of its offering, DigitalOcean also has object storage with a built-in CDN under its Spaces product line. Pricing starts at $5 per month and is pay-as-you-go after that.
Users on DigitalOcean’s platform should strongly consider using odrive’s clients with their Spaces storage. With odrive you can sync, share, and encrypt the files in your Spaces buckets, along with any other cloud storage you may have. Get all of your storage unified, under a single login, on all of your machines.
Windows and Mac desktop clients provide native access to your Spaces via Explorer and Finder. Moreover, CLI tools and dedicated command-line Sync Agents for Linux, Windows, and Mac provide the development tools needed to automate tasks and routines or to give headless instances access to your Spaces storage.
Best of all, odrive has an Infinite Sync mechanism to access your files so that you only see placeholder files (which don’t take up any space on your local machine) until you want local access to the file. Syncing the full contents of everything in your storage is inefficient and uses up network bandwidth and disk space unnecessarily.
If you have multiple DigitalOcean spaces, you can choose which ones to link under odrive, letting you organize and configure access the way you want.
Finally, note that odrive also works with other utility storage providers (e.g. Backblaze B2, Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, etc.) as well, so you could even mix-and-match your compute and storage solutions if you didn’t want to use spaces storage for some particular reason.
If any of this sounds interesting to you, give odrive a try. It’s free, and you don’t need to upgrade unless you want stronger zero-knowledge encryption, more control over freeing up disk space, and other specialized features.
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