What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

I've been using Seafile recently and generally liking it. The experience with the iOS app absolutely leaves something to be desired (photos only as far as I can see, even though the server and web app supports other kinds of files) though. The web apps support in app editing of markdown files. There's an admin UI so you can easily manage accounts, and by default everything is private unless shared.

The server was very straightforward to set up on a DO droplet. They even have an install guide for Seafile on Ubuntu 18.04

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-sync...

I use Resilio Sync. I have a NAS that is running Resilio, but a computer that you never turn off could also work. All my computers and even family members have folders being synced to my NAS using Resilio. Then my NAS backs up those folders and files to BackBlaze every night.

It makes it nice because I can still access all my files using the selective sync feature and if I am moving between computers, I can drop anything in those specific folders and have access to them on any computer running Resilio. As well as be confident that it will be backed up and encrypted.

I just launched File Ark two days ago on Product Hunt to solve this personal cloud storage issue that I had. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/file-ark

It's not a backup solution, but rather an archive. With backups, you might expect files to be synced after changes, which my app won't do. Rather as an archive, you can just drag n' drop the files/folders you want to archive and it'll be moved to cloud storage and then you can delete the local copy of those files on your computer.

The files in this archive storage are also not meant to be shared like Dropbox or Google Drive because it's supposed to be your personal archive of files/folders, so there's no sharing functionality.

If that fits you what you are looking for, do give it a try.

We needed to move our company off Google Docs and rather than pay Dropbox we used OwnCloud which has worked really well for us.

The only thing we miss is shared doc editing but we only really used that intensively a couple of times so we didn't miss it much.

The desktop integration is pretty good. The one advantage Dropbox would have had is LAN syncing, but as we mostly work remotely this isn't a big issue.

I'm not sure recommending to delete the original/local copy is a good idea. Better to have more copies than less, otherwise data loss is a huge risk