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Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by ryandrake »

throwaway-aws9 wrote: post #138
bs7280 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can I practically verify 2TB of a life's worth of files while guaranteeing I won't have data loss due to some edge cases and race conditions that delete my data. Every time I've created my own backup script I realized knowing what to delete and when is not easy. IMO the practical solution to this is to just pay for more storage (within reason).

How can you guarantee you'll have access to your 2TB Google Drive when they ban your Google account for breaching terms or accidentally tripping a circuit breaker across one of their offerings? Yup, pay more but get 2 providers.

Or just get a 2TB hard drive for $30 and put your data there. For the cost of storage, you might as well buy three of them.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by bs7280 »

throwaway-aws9 wrote: post #138
bs7280 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can I practically verify 2TB of a life's worth of files while guaranteeing I won't have data loss due to some edge cases and race conditions that delete my data. Every time I've created my own backup script I realized knowing what to delete and when is not easy. IMO the practical solution to this is to just pay for more storage (within reason).

How can you guarantee you'll have access to your 2TB Google Drive when they ban your Google account for breaching terms or accidentally tripping a circuit breaker across one of their offerings? Yup, pay more but get 2 providers.

This is unironically why I do not depending on google for products this important. I do have premium google drive as I needed barely over 15gb, but my main cloud storage is dropbox. A YT comment I made 10 years ago can't break Dropbox's TOS, and since premium storage is their whole business, they will take the product more seriously.

I also have a 14TB RAID 5 NAS at home. And my Desktop PC has 6TB of RAID 5 (had that first, mostly used for video games these days).

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by p_stuart82 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #90
bitexploder wrote: post #55

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Every so often someone is like, Dropbox isn’t that hard. Look at this amazing ZFS/whatever! So simple. Yeah, I keep paying Dropbox every year so I don’t have to think about it. I shoot a sync off to backblaze every once in a while.

I love Dropbox, I pay annually. I use the open source client https://maestral.app/ on the Mac for workstation use, but also integrate other systems with my Dropbox account using their API. If someone built an open source Dropbox server that sat on top of S3 compatible storage, I would not only use it, but pay to have that optionality to get out of Dropbox if they ever enshittify. I can recognize form and function wor…

lol if your data sovereignty still depends on someone else's control plane, it isn't sovereignty. same landlord. lower in the stack

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by ffsm8 »

brookst wrote: post #103
TeMPOraL wrote: post #92

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Right. It's similar to Windows and Android experience. Thing is, for the latter, I don't want to "pin files I always want to keep available" - I want them to actually exist as files in the shared storage, so other apps can operate on them as if on regular files. (Unfortunately, both mobile platforms themselves are actively fighting this approach, and instead encourage apps to keep data in private databases and never…

I get the pain point, but databases are a much better data model for multi-device, intermittently-connected sync. Filesystems just aren’t designed to be async and conflict-resolving.

> databases are a much better data model for multi-device

Fyi, a filesystem is a database too.

And acid SQL databases ain't much better at that domain from my perspective.

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by toomuchtodo »

p_stuart82 wrote: post #146
toomuchtodo wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love Dropbox, I pay annually. I use the open source client https://maestral.app/ on the Mac for workstation use, but also integrate other systems with my Dropbox account using their API. If someone built an open source Dropbox server that sat on top of S3 compatible storage, I would not only use it, but pay to have that optionality to get out of Dropbox if they ever enshittify. I can recognize form and function wor…

lol if your data sovereignty still depends on someone else's control plane, it isn't sovereignty. same landlord. lower in the stack

I keep multiple copies across systems.

(25+ years in tech, ymmv)

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by cobbal »

ragazzina wrote: post #134
charles_f wrote: post #99

Stop paying for banks, AI built this cardboard box that you can store in your toolshed instead!

Can I have a link to the cardboard box .pdf template please?

Take your pick :) https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/

Re: Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead

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Post by yabutlivnWoods »

sumeno wrote: post #107

Why wouldn't I trust a vibe coded app that has existed for 1 week with all my important data?

Why wouldn't I trust a SaaS app that is charging me and selling my important data?

...most of the software industry is one rung above back alley smack dealer when it comes to the kind of business they run.

Most software developers are bartering for food and shelter. They're not curing cancer or building an essential new bridge for a community.

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