{"id":6085,"date":"2017-09-21T19:11:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2017-09-21T19:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T18:11:28","slug":"digitalocean-spaces-now-offering-object-storage-for-high-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6085","title":{"rendered":"DigitalOcean Spaces Now Offering Object Storage For High Fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"JimJamz Studio High Fidelity, by Ciaran Laval on Flickr!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ciaran_laval\/35519321304\/in\/dateposted-public\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4410\/35519321304_8fb05fc7f6.jpg?resize=500%2C262&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"JimJamz Studio High Fidelity\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open Source Virtual Reality platform <a href=\"https:\/\/highfidelity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High Fidelity<\/a> this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/high-fidelity-announces-support-for-digitalocean-spaces-300522371.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> their support for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalocean.com\/products\/object-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DigitalOcean Spaces<\/a>, an object storage solution that fits in with the way High Fidelity works.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;re not familiar with how High Fidelity works then the concept at play here will sound a tad confusing. In High Fidelity you don&#8217;t upload content in the way that you do with Second Life or OpenSim, your content is hosted on a server and this is where a solution such as DigitalOcean Spaces fits in.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The PR Newswire press release informs us :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;High Fidelity is envisioned as a distributed network running on a wide mix of hardware,&#8221; says High Fidelity CEO, Philip Rosedale. &#8220;We see support for DigitalOcean Spaces as a strategic advantage for us and our user community as users embrace deployment of their creations in virtual reality on the cloud.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DigitalOcean Spaces isn&#8217;t free, which should not be a surprise as hosting content has associated costs, their website does gives us information on where pricing starts :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Pricing starts at $5 per month and includes 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of outbound data transferred per month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Additional storage is available at $0.02 per GB stored, and additional bandwidth at $0.01 per GB of data transferred. Uploads to Spaces are free.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can get two months for free to try it out and there are other plans available, depending upon your storage and bandwidth requirements.<\/p>\n<p>DigitalOcean Spaces also allows you to set whether your content can be read by everyone, or just yourself, which will of course have implications for usage costs.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about how you can use DigitalOcean Spaces with High Fidelity go here :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.highfidelity.com\/create-and-explore\/start-working-in-your-sandbox\/digital-ocean\/digital-ocean-spaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/docs.highfidelity.com\/create-and-explore\/start-working-in-your-sandbox\/digital-ocean\/digital-ocean-spaces<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obviously DigitalOcean Spaces isn&#8217;t just a product that can be used with High Fidelity, but it does look like it&#8217;s a good fit for High Fidelity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open Source Virtual Reality platform High Fidelity this week announced their support for\u00a0DigitalOcean Spaces, an object storage solution that fits in with the way High Fidelity works. Now if you&#8217;re not familiar with how High Fidelity works then the concept at play here will sound a tad confusing. In High Fidelity you don&#8217;t upload content &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=6085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DigitalOcean Spaces Now Offering Object Storage For High Fidelity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[551,997,14],"tags":[1174,1034],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6rJUK-1A9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}