I need to store ~100GB of data in the cloud using Nextcloud. Would Spaces or Block Storage be best from a performance and reliability perspective?
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Thank you X40C for taking the time to answer. I had actually already read that article previously but as a novice on server setups I could use some additional guidance.
Would I be right in saying spaces would be cheaper with a trade of in performance while blocks would be more expensive but with less latency equaling better performance?
There’s a request limit @ Spaces i believe but yea your assessment is more or less accurate. Spaces would be more of a cold storage thingy where you would store your back'ups and such where as Block Storage is just another network drive you can mount as a device on a VM and use it as local storage.
So would the following make sense as a balance between cost/stability/reliability? (With blocks costing more than spaces per GB)
1) use block storage for items I will frequently need (stuff I will probably sync to/from my local device regularly and might share regularly)
2) use spaces for stuff I want to keep for archival purposes but won’t often need to look at and won’t sync to my local device and won’t share often, if at all
Found something worth reading related to spaces: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/rate-limiting-on-spaces
Spaces will be better than Block Storage, according to performance and reliability perspective. Or the best method is trying upgrading your Google Drive Storage. That’s it!
I’m finding block storage used as primary storage rather than external works quite will