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Best cloud storage solution (for business)? (gdrive, etc)
I need a good cloud storage solution for sharing files internally (team mates) along with external shares, like Dropbox or Gdrive. Needs to allow easy sharing externally.
We need good desktop clients for Windows, MacOS and Linux and it must be easy to use (no finicky desktop clients or setup). Must be reliable and I don't want to admin any servers or setup anything myself.
I'm okay with something like OneDrive/Dropbox/etc but the prices are a bit much ($20+ user / month really adds up).
1TB is fine (total) but more would be ideal.
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Google Workspace is $6/m/user
Tresorit if you want solid encryption.
https://tresorit.com/pricing
Box if you want unlimited space.
https://www.box.com/en-gb/pricing
OneDrive is 1TB a user for $6/month/user through Microsoft 365. Also comes with all the nice features that ship with 365 such as e-mail and what not.
As said above, Box is very nice too. I've also used Sync.com which is fairly nice, but apparently not super speedy.
I know small companys wich uses one or two onedrive Accounts as whole Team to share files with there customers.
As long every Team member should get Access to all files this is a solution to save some money.
1TB should be more then enough for a lot of small teams.
I never used nextcloud, but I think it should also fit your requirements:
https://www.hetzner.com/de/storage/storage-share
For business use I'd go with either G Suite or Microsoft 365, the latter being my preference. Both start at $6/user/month, although Google only include 30GB/user on the basic plan whereas Microsoft include 1TB/user. It's best if you also use it for emails. Microsoft's web UI is a bit more polished than Google's, particularly on the email side of things.
I wouldn't recommend this. It means you can't use SSO to log in, it's harder to use two-factor auth, there's no way to track who has access to it, and it's difficult to revoke someone's access if they leave the team/company as you'd have to rotate the password for everyone every time.
No way this could go wrong.
I'd suggest OneDrive as well, it's a lot more polished now than it used to be.
You can actually get the OneDrive for Business (Plan 1) for $5/month. This is only $1/month cheaper than the Business Basic license that the others have suggested but if you're only using OneDrive, there's no need to pay $1/month more for features that you're not going to use.
We can setup a windows vps with 1TB HDD, Can you please advise how much bandwidth are you looking for ?
Thanks for the suggestions, OneDrive seems like a good choice.
We did try the NextCloud route, but had nothing but problems and I'm starting to get sick of the self-hosted route.
I have a question - anyone with experience with the herzner storage? Is it stable enough for business? Any data loss experiences?
mega.nz - has best in class clients for different apps.
koofr.eu - awesome clients for smartphones + not bad desktop one
icedrive.net - awesome both and mobile & desktop
filen.io - both great.
google drive pretty solid (and wide rage of free tools to use with the storage to make it right click access to everything)
https://internxt.com/ - not bad too
Price always the same ~10 usd / person for 1-2TB / mo
What about Internxt?
https://internxt.com/
@Internxt_Team
@fvsegarra
Would definitely recommend Internxt
https://internxt.com/
If you’ve you’ve been using Internxt for some time and you genuinely believe it’s an option for the OP, fair enough.
If you haven’t used and it just recommended an advertiser, this post is irresponsible.
I strongly suspect it’s the latter given the sequence of recent events.
OneDrive by Microsoft is awesome solution
What would go wrong? They are not breaking TOS.
I’m reasonably sure it is, but that wasn’t what I was driving at. In a business environment, where you often need traceability of change for audit/review purposes, sharing accounts is a cast-iron no-no.
In what way?
I am certain the basic terms of all Microsoft accounts do not permit you to share your account with another individual (or group of individuals). I am not looking up the specific text for you.
If they have setup their access in a way that only 2 people needs to have upload access and the rest just need download access then they are golden. Hell. they can even automate it via internal small server which uses something like rclone to upload from the same account and the same machine to OD. Literally vanilla TOS guidelines.
Ok mate, have a good evening.
OneDrive is the best price to value product according to me as it provides a solid mail system with the powerful office apps.
Google Drive.
The only thing to note is that it's super slow from anywhere outside of Hetzner, I would proxy through Hetzner Cloud Falkenstein.
Onedrive plans might be cheap but their network is absolute garbage.
Thanks @Advin appreciate the info!
Personally i use Pcloud and Koofr, but my business uses Sync.com and all of them have been running great for some years now...
Pcloud (free plan), box, onedrive, google all scan/can access your files so not very secure at all.
Koofr I am not sure about.
Never had a issue with them.
Does not surprise me at all, so for that reason encryption of file is available.
Google or Microsoft everything except this both is crap for business