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Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Phoenix NAP

Digital Ocean Spaces
Versus
Phoenix NAP

Features

Storage Features of Digital Ocean Spaces compared to Phoenix NAP
Digital Ocean SpacesFeaturesPhoenix NAP
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Portal, REST apiManagement interfacesPortal
Event hooks/pubsub
SLA
250 GBMaximum object filesize
Files smaller than 1MB are not optimally stored on DO’s Spaces.Minimum object filesize
unlimitedRecommended max file count per bucket
250 GBMax filesize for a bucket
unlimited. Note that a price is calculated per ‘Space’.Maximum amount of buckets
Logs
Authentication / ACL
Spaces leverages Digital Ocean’s built in CDN, which is a mix of two CDNs depending on the region your traffic is servedCDN integration
Centurylink is the backbone provider for large parts of the globePeering & interconnectPhoenix announced to take part in Google Cloud’s Interconnect
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown

Descriptions

Digital Ocean Spaces

Digital Ocean is one of the few companies that grew over time and actually made it to the champions leage of Cloud Hosting Providers. It’s only logical DO should offer an object storage solution.

Digital Ocean has established itself over the years as being developer friendly, posting an abundance of useful Sysadmin/developer articles. The value and quality of their blog closely represents their product, which is clean, has good concise documentation, and works great.

Their clients include InfluxDB and Edge Compute company Section; (see our srvrlss profile on them).

Phoenix NAP

Being a traditional hosting company, Phoenix NAP has always been working to offer the latest and greatest in cloud services and the hosting space.

Their fully S3-compatible storage solution offer, combined with their bare-metal and on-premise cloud solutions, are a fine choice for anyone not willing to give in to the “giants”, like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

PhoenixNAP has valuable partnerships with large tech companies, such as Cisco, Intel, and VMware.

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