Cloud Storage For Xenforo2 [Xenforo2 Plugin]

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I have a Microsoft OneDrive subscription. Does your addon support Microsoft OneDrive as an external storage provider, allowing me to store my forum attachments there?

 

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I have a Microsoft OneDrive subscription. Does your addon support Microsoft OneDrive as an external storage provider, allowing me to store my forum attachments there?

No, our add-on does not support Microsoft OneDrive, and we don't plan to add it.

While using an existing OneDrive subscription sounds tempting, personal/office cloud drives are fundamentally unsuitable for production forum attachments for the following reasons:

1. No native CDN / Direct-linking: OneDrive is not an object storage service and lacks native CDN direct-linking, relying on slow redirects or expiring tokens that break web asset delivery.
2. Strict API rate limits: Microsoft Graph API aggressively throttles concurrent requests (429 Too Many Requests), which would quickly result in broken images and failed page loads under normal forum traffic.
3. Violation of Microsoft's ToS: Using OneDrive as a public website asset host or CDN violates Microsoft's Terms of Service and risks your account being suspended for bandwidth abuse.

If you are looking for cost-effective alternatives, we strongly recommend using Cloudflare R2 (zero egress/bandwidth fees) or AWS S3 / Backblaze B2, which are true object storages designed specifically for this use case and fully supported by our add-on.