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pCloud 500GB for 139€ lifetime
Currently, pCloud lifetime deal is reduced to 139€/500GB. Might be a good chance to grab it.
https://www.pcloud.com/black-friday?channelid=2027&label=BF22
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or take 500GB for 3 months for free: https://www.pcloud.com/de/500GB_free?utm_source=BFLP22&utm_campaign=exit_BF2022
which is better? koofr or pcloud?
Pcloud has more features
My personal favorite is koofr. I trust koofr more than pcloud
I have both. I trust pCloud more, because I see more "life signs" (ppl talking about it, appstore ratings and downloads, followers etc). Ofc these are just numbers, but with Koofr it's kinda hard to guess how many ppl are actually using them.
There's a bit more info about Koofr in their native language. I am too lazy to translate it, so used google translate:
source: https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koofr
They aren't that big, but they seems to actively grow in many areas. Even my mobile operator - second largest telecommunications operator/ISP in my country (owned by the international telecommunications group A1 Telekom Austria Group) have some sort of contract with them to offer additional 5GB on the top of the free 10GB koofr space for their subscribers for free.
I checked also their financial report for the last few years. Their growth isn't that big, but steady. Every financial year they end up with a little bit more profit than previous year.
What makes me sceptical with all those hosts are their lifetime offers. That's nothing but pyramid scheme and Koofr just like pCloud here isn't any better.
But on the other hand it seems like Koofr business doesn't depend solely on that and they are active in many areas.
Their regular pricing (apart from those stacksocial offers) seems sustainable, so lets hope for the best.
Yeah, Koofr doesn't sound all that "bad", of course. I am using them and have been happy ever since. It's just that from pCloud I feel like I am seeing more "live signs" and I would also expect that e.g. Google Trends would show way more searches related to pCloud than Koofr. Just like socials which would feature more content related to pCloud than Koofr. As you said, however, that's just one way to "measure" a company's "success/reliability". Both companies have been in the game for many years and I feel like Koofr has found its' niche and as per your findings manages to write green numbers. That's great! As for pCloud, I believe they are also running different business models. Consumer free/paid cloud storage, they also cater to families (similar to ms drive they offer a family plan), they offer white-label storage for companies, so they also have a b2b business and they recently published launched their password manager.
Judging by Crunchbase data, both companies seem to be doing "fine", but e.g. in the "Technology" tab, pCloud has way more downloads etc than Koofr (last 30 days app downloads from pCloud were 60000+, from Koofr only 448). Then again, Koofr experienced a 400%+ rise in monthly visits, pCloud -2%ish. It appears Koofr had more monthly visits to desktop&mobile sites the past 30 days than pCloud (pCloud has some 4 million visits, Koofr some 5 million visits).
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pcloud
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/koofr/
In the end, both are probably a good choice and it comes down to individual preferance/needs.
Koofr also supports rcone btw https://rclone.org/koofr/
I have 1 terabyte of memory for free from mail.ru forever, handed out a long time ago when opening
Have both Koofr 1TB and PCloud 2TB lifetime accounts.
Both are solid. PCloud has had some drama in the past about arbitrarily deleting accounts that had copyrighted content on them. I've been very careful to use Cryptomator or RClone to upload files and haven't experienced any issues personally.
now gone up to 199EUR
For me 500GB still shows for 139€.
I see also 139EUR
ONE-TIME PAYMENT
I'm still having plenty of "unlimited lifetime" google accounts, I'm not sure if the lifetime of them is longer or shorter than the paid ones from koofr or pcloud 😂
Offer is back for Valentines Day - https://www.pcloud.com/Valentine2023
Still happy with pCloud
Can't believe I still haven't used up all storage.
looks like they don't have an API?
Never used API with them. They do support rclone though, iirc. Since they also offer reseller plans, maybe those would have api.
Also there's an API entry in docs: https://docs.pcloud.com/
Oh, thank you! Very useful link.