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What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Re: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Post by sanv725 »

kup0 wrote: post #10
sanv725 wrote: post #6

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 the…

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

I completely agree that data loss is a huge issue. Cloud storage usually comes with pretty high redundancy, but if you're using a service you don't know much about, it's definitely safer to keep your own copy of the file.

A use case I had was that my Mac was running out of hard disk space and I didn't want to carry around an external hard drive or get a new Mac, just for more disk space. I tried cleaning out as much unused applications and files as I could, but there still remained large and old files that I wanted to preserve to keep a record of them.

Moving it to cloud storage for archival gets me the long-term storage and by deleting the local copies of it, I was able to get back a good chunk of space on my Mac. Not everyone may have this use case, but it was one I came across where deleting the local copy made sense.

Re: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Post by gumby »

kop316 wrote: post #9
gumby wrote: post #8

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.

Nextcloud is a fork of OwnCloud, and you can integrate an online office suite with it (Callebra Online). Both can be self hosted.

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

Re: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Post by sanv725 »

whitepoplar wrote: post #7

I like Wasabi as a storage backend. It's incredibly cheap ($0.0059 GB/month) and has no bandwidth fees.

I'm actually using Wasabi as my cloud storage backend for File Ark (https://fileark.launchaco.com/), which is an app I made to interface with it.

It's definitely cheaper for archiving files, but there are some catches like minimum file size and storage duration costs, but still overall cheaper than the other storage solutions I've come across.

Re: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Post by justusthane »

It's not cloud storage, but I can't recommend SyncThing enough. Syncs selected local folders between any/all of your devices whenever they're able to contact each other.

I use it specifically to keep my files out of the cloud, but in the past I've also installed it on a DigitalOcean instance and had it function sort of like cloud storage that way.

My favorite thing about it is that you're selecting existing local folders to sync rather than moving files to a special "sync" directory, meaning it's very flexible in what you can do with it (syncing dot files between machines, as one example).

The only problem is there's no good iOS client yet, but macOS, Windows, Linux, Android are all supported.

Re: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Post by jaredcwhite »

I'm using NextCloud on a DigitalOcean VPS (the files themselves are on a separate volume so the VPS drive can remain small), and it's been really solid. I think the web UI for NextCloud is great, and while the clients for iOS and macOS are not best-in-class compared to, say, Dropbox, they definitely work and get the job done. I love the fact that, at the end of the day, I have a file on a Linux server somewhere that is THE cloud file. It's my data, under my control, and that I'm able to troubleshoot myself. (Compare with a major glitch I had with iCloud Drive on my Mac that Apple never could get fixed for me. I literally to this day have a broken iCloud Drive connection on my MacBook Pro.)

Re: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Post by shoo »

i only want to back up a few git repos, so i use aws' git hosting service, "code commit". it costs me i have other repos stored for free in private github or bitbucket accounts, but i prefer to be a paying customer for storing some things that i feel are more critical.

edit: it looks like aws code commit storage costs are 0.06 $ gb^{-1} month^{-1} -- about 10x the cost of the wasabi storage mentioned elsewhere in this discussion. but the first 50 gb month^{-1} is free.

Re: What personal cloud storage would you recommend?

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Post by Spooky23 »

I ended up choosing Google.

Dropbox is fabulous but expensive. If you’re a Mac person and don’t need to share folders, iCloud is much better these days as well — my spouse uses that.

Rolling your own seems like a more expensive path more likely to lead to disaster.

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