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Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by Shoop »

christophilus wrote: post #25
jph wrote: post #13

You wrote about deplatforming-- heads up that DigitalOcean does deplatform people. I have direct firsthand knowledge of DigitalOcean deplatforming a security disclosure professional reporting a root breach bug. For your secure backups, I can suggest Tarsnap by Colin Percival, who's a security expert and a frequent contributor on Hacker News. I don't get anything for recommending Tarsnap; I'm just a customer. https://…

They flagged my account and pulled 100% of my servers with no mitigation for 12 hours until I convinced them I was legitimate. DO still handles that incredibly poorly, which is the reason we no longer host anything critical there.

For clarity, is "They" DO or tarsnap?

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by StavrosK »

secfirstmd wrote: post #6
__soter__ wrote: post #5

$5 for 250GB of storage and then $20 per TB ($0.02/GB) after that seems a bit steep. Plans and Pricing The base rate of a Spaces subscription is $5/month and gives you the ability to create multiple Spaces. The subscription includes 250 GiB of data storage (cumulative across all of your Spaces). Additional storage beyond this allotment is $0.02/GiB. If you cancel your subscription by destroying all your Spaces, your…

Interesting comparison price when something like Sia is so cheap per TB (4 dollars). Will be interesting to see how it developers.

I tried to use Sia once but I needed to download the entire blockchain. Not a fan of storing 5 GB locally so I can store 1 GB remotely...

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by asidiali »

mitjafelicijan wrote: post #26
asidiali wrote: post #24

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing - going to give it a go. Similarly, I took a stab not too long ago at attempting to replace my Dropbox [1] - I opted for an implementation using Git and FSWatch. Pro: version control for your files Con: more expensive and takes more storage [1] https://sidia.li/simple-dropbox-alternative/

Love it. Your solution is much more polished and Dropbox like. Very nice!

Thanks for checking it out - may we both never have to succumb to third party syncing platforms again!

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by mitjafelicijan »

asidiali wrote: post #33
mitjafelicijan wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love it. Your solution is much more polished and Dropbox like. Very nice!

Thanks for checking it out - may we both never have to succumb to third party syncing platforms again!

Couldn't agree with you more.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by PenguinCoder »

christophilus wrote: post #25
jph wrote: post #13

You wrote about deplatforming-- heads up that DigitalOcean does deplatform people. I have direct firsthand knowledge of DigitalOcean deplatforming a security disclosure professional reporting a root breach bug. For your secure backups, I can suggest Tarsnap by Colin Percival, who's a security expert and a frequent contributor on Hacker News. I don't get anything for recommending Tarsnap; I'm just a customer. https://…

They flagged my account and pulled 100% of my servers with no mitigation for 12 hours until I convinced them I was legitimate. DO still handles that incredibly poorly, which is the reason we no longer host anything critical there.

What or who do you suggest instead ?AWS?

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by coryrc »

Shoop wrote: post #31
christophilus wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They flagged my account and pulled 100% of my servers with no mitigation for 12 hours until I convinced them I was legitimate. DO still handles that incredibly poorly, which is the reason we no longer host anything critical there.

For clarity, is "They" DO or tarsnap?

tarsnap doesn't rent servers

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by cweagans »

geonic wrote: post #27
quaffapint wrote: post #12

You could also go the route of using Backblaze for storage and Cloudflare for delivery. You'll pay $1.25 for the same 250gb ($0.005/gb) and get free bandwidth through CF.

Can you expand on that? I store my backups on B2. Are you saying I can download all data via cloudflare without paying for B2 egress?

Info is here: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by paxys »

There is a lot of open source file sync software out there (ownCloud, NextCloud, Seafile, Syncthing, ...) that would be much better suited for a self-hosted Dropbox replacement than a single bash script. You are many orders of magnitude more likely to lose your data due to a code bug or unstable network than deplatforming.

I looked into setting up something of the sort for myself a little while ago, but unfortunately the pricing just isn't feasible if you have a large amount of data (say a few hundred GBs). You could easily end up paying more than $100/mo for storage + compute + bandwidth, while Dropbox and others charge ~$6-$10/mo for like 2TB.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by swjz »

Dropbox does a great job syncing a large number of small files -- I believe they compress the small files somehow before uploading to the cloud. And plenty of other optimizations that make me happy to pay Dropbox's premium. Otherwise, Google Drive and OneDrive are cheap alternatives too.
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