I wanted to try Digital Ocean spaces, but the pricing isn’t reasonable for my use case, also, I would be storing media files (ranges of 1Gb to 10Gb every month), has anyone tried wasabi or backblaze with Classicpress, their prices are the right fit for me.
Due to the seamless integration with droplets? Or ?
I took a quick look at the plugin repo just now, and it seems developers supports Spaces more than the two I mentioned, I can’t even find a support for Backblaze.
I use BackBlaze. I was using Amazon S3 but I dumped all things Amazon after they irritated me. BackBlaze is about a quarter the price of S3 and is great for my purpose. But I’m not sure what you mean by “tried it with classicpress”. What sort of integration do you need?
That was part of the factors I considered, I can integrate things easily, custom sub-domain for cdn and the community is very active, gat_no_oda_choice
It was Amazon shop that annoyed me. I bought something and even though I unticked every hard sell I could find, I still got signed up to a trial membership of Amazon Prime. It then took me 3 pages of instructions and about 6 different screens to cancel it.
At that stage I thought: “I don’t want these people having my CC number”.
Amazon AWS and BackBlaze are industry standards. BackBlaze is cheaper and a more user friendly interface. We use both to create redundancy.
To make a point, it really depends on he purpose of your uploads or backups, and how you want to access them. For us its primarily cPanel and website backups.
I found a major problem with many S3-compatible providers including Digital Ocean Spaces. Anyone who can access one bucket can access all the buckets in an account.
So if you’re backing up several different clients’ sites to an account, and your client has a ClassicPress admin login, they can easily get the API and secret keys from the database and download ALL the backups you’ve stored for all client accounts.
Please see @viktor comment below. You create and use IAM user for backups, never your root account access. I create a different one for each agency. No it’s not easy to setup.
With UpdraftPlus we can even create a user per site, so even if they can view other buckets, they can,t access them. Not sure that helps for ClassicPress, but a good backup plugin should give you some control over AWS setup.
I will always pick Digital Ocean over AWS if possible, it is just much simpler.
It looks like Digital Ocean does not offer fine-grained permissions, so I would probably create an account for each client.
I usually have clients create and manage their own accounts anyway, since this means they remain in control of their own data and I don’t have to deal with billing etc…