# DigitalOcean Spaces Setup Notice - Customers are reminded they are responsible for all storage fees, read more in our EULA DigitalOcean provide a simple way to have object storage. If your looking for spreading backup risk, it may be worth using a storage provider different to that of the server. So if your backing up a AWS hosted MySQL servers maybe choose DO as the backup storage provider # Pricing Starting from $5 USD a month you get 250GiB of backups and pay $0.02 per GiB after that. Outbound traffic included is 1TiB and charged at $0.01/Gib after that. # Creating a New Space Login to your DigitalOcean Control Panel Top right click the Create button and select Spaces (at bottom) Choose your backup region Note: DigitalOcean have storage capacity issues in Amsterdam currently but expected to get fixed 2020 with upgrades Do not select CDN as this is for private files which we don't need distributed round the world. Select Restrict File Listng Choose a name E.g. snapshooter Press Create a Space Spaces should be created instantly Note down the URL # Getting Space API Keys Go to the API settings in your account (for the left menu under Manage) Find Spaces access keys Press Generate New Keys Give it a useful name e.g. SnapShooter Copy the Key and secret (if you don't you can't view them again and will have to regenerate them) # Add to SnapShooter Login to SnapShooter and open External Storage Press Connect New External Storage Give Friendly Name Select Provider (DigitalOcean Spaces) Choose the region (FRA1 in our case) Paste in Access Key Paste in Secret Key Pasted Bucket name in our case its demo-snapshooter https://**demo-snapshooter**.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com -> demo-snapshooter Press save In the background SnapShooter will test creating a file and then deleting it to make sure API access has been setup correctly. View Overview Screen of providers