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Is using Spaces for millions of public pictures the right choice (rate limit, speed) ?

Posted on February 1, 2020
DigitalOcean Spaces
Asked by ChrisPan

Hello DO-Team,

we are currently migrating millions of pictures from DigitalOcean Volume to DigitialOcean Spaces (as this was recommended by several conference talks and external IT consulting), and now I’m reading that Spaces are not the right choice for hosting small sized public files (1KByte-500KByte), also the “200 requests per second” limit give me headaches.

My questions to you are:

A) Can I use Spaces for hosting millions of typical public .jpg pictures or will I get serious problems ?

B) What’s the correct DO product to host that kind of images ? Surprisingly the docs and the internet doesn’t have a good answer here.

Thank you very much, Christian

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Luxin Zhang • February 1, 2020

Accepted Answer

Hello ChrisPan,

Nice to contact with you.I think DigitalOcean spaces is enough for your commands.But one space just has 250GB storage and 1000GB out-of-town bandwith per month,so please consider the requests’ rates,if them are too high,for each of them will be requested for more than thousands times,I think you’d better make a work-ticket to DO team to clear your requirement.And, don’t forget to take at least two back-up spaces to make sure your data are safe.

Have a nice experience with DigitalOcean.

Shiroka

alexdo

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• May 9, 2024

Heya,

Spaces buckets are ideal for storing static, unstructured data like audio, video, and images as well as large amounts of text. Because buckets are an object storage implementation, use cases like databases, applications written in server-side languages, and mission-critical applications will work best with local storage or block storage.

If you use Spaces to serve static or dynamic content for your website, you can also benefit from using the Spaces CDN (Content Delivery Network), which is available at no additional cost. CDNs reduce page load times, improve performance, and reduce your bandwidth and infrastructure costs by caching your assets across a set of geographically distributed servers.

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/details/features/

Regards