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How or what country?
Hi there,
I personally use a mix of Google Drive and a VPS for backups. Having a VPS with SSH access restricted to my IP feels pretty secure, especially with proper firewalls in place.
I’ve heard good things about pCloud for privacy though.
Curious, do you think specific storage regulations in certain countries are a big factor when choosing where to store personal files?
onedrive, koofr, netdynamics in that order
Germany, always buying Family package on black friday or when its cheap and share it with 5 ppl.
Not important data?
Buy a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W + an external SSD/NVMe -- you'll gonna pay 1-5$ per month.
Backblaze
Has anyone tried Filen's "notes" function? I'm wondering if it comes close to Skiff Pages (RIP).
I just read this about pCloud yesterday: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/4075077/#Comment_4075077
FYI for future customers.
Trust no one
Files are at my home nas (1x8tb) backups are everywhere, encrypted, happy to send me pics anywhere as long as encrypted
Proton drive is pretty good.
I use datalix's nextcloud plan. It's only 2.49 euros for 500gb of storage
I use several different services depending on situation.
Of the big ones I use Google Drive, Dropbox, Koofr, Filen and Box.com. If I had to recommend only one of them, it would probably be Koofr.
I also use Nextcloud and Seafile.
If you only need to synchronize files, go with Seafile. The main disadvantage as I see it is that they store the data in a weird format that is not readable outside of Seafile. This is also their biggest advantage since it makes the performance second to none. There are cli commands that allows you to extract or export the data to facilitate backups etc. Their documentation could be a bit better.
If you need the entire ecosystem of teamware and collaboration, use Nextcloud. It gives you a plethora of editors, viewers and tools to use on whatever data you store there, as well as basically a cloud based workspace with mail, calendar, conferencing, document signing and whatever else a team might need. It also hooks into external services like Mattermost, Jitsi, Outlook, Github and a lot of others. The filesync works fine but it's not even near the performance of Seafile. Nextcloud store all the data in it's original form so it is easily accessible.
I use Hetzner's Storage Share, which is essentially a managed Nextcloud service. It's really affordable and works great.
It looks like they don't provide a managed Nextcloud service. Are you saying you set up Nextcloud yourself on one of their VPS servers?
I gave Nextcloud with S3 compatible storage a shot as the main storage a while back, but the performance wasn't very good. How has it been working for you?
Pretty happy considering both NC and S3 are in the same region and potentially same DC (OCI).
I see, perhaps that's the difference. I tried with my server in Germany (Hetzner) and Wasabi/iDrive e2 for the storage.
Also using Proton Drive and liking it. Might also try out Tuta Drive once it launches.
@host_c for all the porn.
b2 and now cloudflare r2
Onedrive from office 365 1T
I'm biased since we sell our own services 🤣 but our backup servers is primary, but then we sync backup servers content nightly to amazon as a redundant offsite. Really important stuff we do a sync to glacier for cold storage once a week.
Backup servers all run raidz2 on storage blocks, I really like zfs self healing, its done a really good job for us. Then zfs snapshots on all backup servers run daily and we keep 10 snapshots.
Internally and personally we use nextcloud for everything, and thats backed up to our backup servers.
All nodes and cpanel servers have a secondary internal drive for local backups for fast restore in case of drive failure, then we sync that to our backup servers as well.
I have pCloud for quiet sometime, but shifted back to Google and Amazon.
Do you mind me asking why you switched away from pCloud? I got one of their lifetime plans a few years back and while it certainly isn't the best I haven't had any major issues with them either. I don't use their premium encryption upsell but rather I encrypt everything before sending it to pCloud in the first place.
I am using, mainly with rclone:
All three have been reliable, Hetzner / Koofr being faster than pCloud when uploading.
Everything encrypted before sending.
There wasn't any specific reason for shifting from pCloud.... I just moved on
When one has Proton Unlimited but then downgrades to the free level, what happens to the free extra storage that was periodically tacked onto the Unlimited account?
Running nextcloud on oracle free tier. 200 gb is good enough for me, for now and it is free.
filen.io
this is interesting