Hi Joseph,

Yes as Baloo mentioned I tried on these systems a lot.

First of all Una is ready for Amazon s3. The things I explained below are for the ones who doesn't prefer Amazon s3 for any reason.

As a result in my current configuration,  i am able to use digital ocean s3 object storage on my production site with riofs and -- local storage -- option on studio.

Riofs mounts the Amazon or digital ocean buckets as a local directory .

In our case I mounted the S3 bucket as /storage directory .

The important things are:

The storage and application server to be in the same datacenter - it will work faster, you will not be charged for their mutual communication-.

Amazon is more expensive then digital ocean. Also check Yandex I think it's price is best now.

You can not use an object storage system for the operations for file manipulation. It uses putting and getting data only. This means for instance you can not store the mail directories of a mail server on an object based storage. But it's ideal for images and backups etc.

If your app server and S3 are in the same data center, With riofs and correctly structured caching this will not effect your page loading speeds.