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A service file storage

JioJio Member
edited January 2021 in Requests

My dropbox subscription price has increased significantly, not worth it anymore for what it provides, and they are heavily destroy the public downloads - requires page interstitial in JS, can't wget anymore, covered in Dropbox branding even for paying customer and I get nonstop upsells to go to Professional or Business. Sick, especially since I am already paying customer.

I am looking for a service backups and sharing files, reputation a bit more above board (like something I can show things to clients from, not 1fichier/meganz-equivalent type of reputation),

  • looking for 1 TB storage
  • direct download links are most ideal, wgettable
  • happy to use your referral
  • no file size limits (some files 15-20GB binary 3D model data or similar)
  • I am not storing copyright materials
  • ability to pick which files to upload or selectively sync back down
  • not Google or MS drive
  • I don't want to install owncloud or deal with this myself, and will be sharing files with totally non technical user's

Comments

  • ChronicChronic Member
    edited January 2021

    You could just get hosted Nextcloud at Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

  • JioJio Member

    Thanks for the suggestion! Most of my clients to linking to is US based, so latency Hetzner/OVH/etc will be quite high unfortunately

  • You can Look after some ftp storage, you can Provide DL links Like User:pass@ip/File/file.ending

  • @Jio said:
    Thanks for the suggestion! Most of my clients to linking to is US based, so latency Hetzner/OVH/etc will be quite high unfortunately

    I don't see why that would matter for the application you are proposing, at worst it would mean the download page would load a couple hundred milliseconds slower. But as you prefer.

  • JioJio Member

    @Chronic said: I don't see why that would matter for the application you are proposing, at worst it would mean the download page would load a couple hundred milliseconds slower. But as you prefer.

    I actually used a Hetzner server previously for this use case, download speeds to US were ~50-100Mbps (it could easily do gigabit to most of western europe), which is not ideal when the files are in tens of gigabytes unfortunately. The 300-500ms roundtrip is just another negative.

  • @Jio

    Use either B2 https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html or https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

    These are object storage services (B2 is S3 compatible) so while you can use their consoles to manage your files, to have a good experience I recommend you use https://mountainduck.io/

    It will allow you to work with the above (S3 and B2) and a lot more additional services (worth buying). See this smart synchronization feature: https://trac.cyberduck.io/wiki/help/en/howto/mount/sync

    And you share the files that you need to share publicly easily (and auto expire if you want).

    The nice thing is you can give this a spin before getting the Mountain Duck license as the storage is as you go. B2 is cheaper than S3.

    Thanked by 1Chronic
  • @Kassem said:
    @Jio

    Use either B2 https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html or https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

    These are object storage services (B2 is S3 compatible) so while you can use their consoles to manage your files, to have a good experience I recommend you use https://mountainduck.io/

    It will allow you to work with the above (S3 and B2) and a lot more additional services (worth buying). See this smart synchronization feature: https://trac.cyberduck.io/wiki/help/en/howto/mount/sync

    And you share the files that you need to share publicly easily (and auto expire if you want).

    The nice thing is you can give this a spin before getting the Mountain Duck license as the storage is as you go. B2 is cheaper than S3.

    And b2 is now s3 compatible ;) ... only for new buckets.... if you've got any really old ones like me they are b2 only

  • tolovalltolovall Member
    edited January 2021

    @chip said: if you've got any really old ones like me they are b2 only

    What do you mean?
    Wouldn't you be able to create a new bucket and move files to it?

  • raindog308raindog308 Administrator, Veteran

    @tolovall said: What do you mean? Wouldn't you be able to create a new bucket and move files to it?

    I'm guessing that is a download/upload cycle.

    Thanked by 1Chronic
  • @tolovall said:

    @chip said: if you've got any really old ones like me they are b2 only

    What do you mean?
    Wouldn't you be able to create a new bucket and move files to it?

    Yes but as raindog308 says I'd have to download them and create a new bucket and then upload them to the "new" s3 compatible bucket

    Chip

  • how about get a special storage vps (US) from hosthatch, then deploy nextcloud by yourself?

  • @Jio said:
    Thanks for the suggestion! Most of my clients to linking to is US based, so latency Hetzner/OVH/etc will be quite high unfortunately

    I don’t see how latency for downloading/file management is important. Might not get a full 1 gbit download speed but will get good enough for file downloading.

    I download stuff from Dropbox and Box which take a long time to download. I get better speeds from Leaseweb network than Dropbox or Box.

    Thanked by 2darkimmortal Chronic
  • darkimmortaldarkimmortal Member
    edited January 2021

    @doughnet said:

    @Jio said:
    Thanks for the suggestion! Most of my clients to linking to is US based, so latency Hetzner/OVH/etc will be quite high unfortunately

    I don’t see how latency for downloading/file management is important. Might not get a full 1 gbit download speed but will get good enough for file downloading.

    I download stuff from Dropbox and Box which take a long time to download. I get better speeds from Leaseweb network than Dropbox or Box.

    This

    Same with any traditional cloud storage - they aren’t going to throw money away storing your files in multiple worldwide locations. Probably just whatever is nearest the uploader, if they even have multiple locations

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  • @chip said:

    @tolovall said:

    @chip said: if you've got any really old ones like me they are b2 only

    What do you mean?
    Wouldn't you be able to create a new bucket and move files to it?

    Yes but as raindog308 says I'd have to download them and create a new bucket and then upload them to the "new" s3 compatible bucket

    Chip

    If you are spending money with them, couldn't you ask them to move your bucket to the newest version?

  • @tolovall said:

    @chip said:

    @tolovall said:

    @chip said: if you've got any really old ones like me they are b2 only

    What do you mean?
    Wouldn't you be able to create a new bucket and move files to it?

    Yes but as raindog308 says I'd have to download them and create a new bucket and then upload them to the "new" s3 compatible bucket

    Chip

    If you are spending money with them, couldn't you ask them to move your bucket to the newest version?

    Probably but they did put it on there blog that you would need to do the above when they first release s3 compatibility

  • marvelmarvel Member
    edited January 2021

    We provide managed Nextcloud: https://billing.novos.be/cart.php?a=add&pid=67

    5 a month for 1 TB or 50 a year with annual billing.

    Upgradable to 10 TB.

    Edit: Ah I see you need US nvm.

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