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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 kwanbix »

woudsma wrote: post #158

Funny, I've done the opposite in recent months. Dropbox's killer feature is 'Online-only' storage IMHO, it allows me to store and access 300GB+ of music and other projects on my laptop without carrying an external HDD with me all the time. Every file is saved as a zero-byte file, which makes the files discoverable even though it's not stored on my disk. When I try to open the file it downloads it automatically, which…

Love how well Dropbox works.

Sadly, for me, it is too expensive. It is 240 euros per year for a family of 6.

For comparison, the same plan in Google One costs 120 euros per year. Same for Office 365.

If they did 120 euros per year for the family pack I will migrate to them because I like Dropbox better at syncing.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

ddorian43 wrote: post #157
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does this have a limitation? Size or whatever ? I want something to store peertube videos and serve them. This sounds like too good to be true

It is, you didn't step on a free video cdn. Cloudflare probits using video unless you're in Enterprise.

but isnt that using b2 ? is there a specific prohibition ?

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by varispeed »

arsome wrote: post #100
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://…

As tarsnap is run by a single person, it seems hard to suggest it to serious businesses due to the inherent risks there as well as the extremely high storage costs and difficult cleanup procedures compared to competing tools. I tend to prefer solutions like restic + B2 for their price and support, where you at least have a larger company behind the storage backend, you could even directly use it with S3 and it'd stil…

When a business becomes serious? Do you need to hire several workers to look legitimate? If that's still not enough, do you need to make yourself a slave of VC? Only problem I can see is that one man operation is susceptible to the run over by a bus scenario. However that is still better than a woke VC asking the "owner" to cancel some users.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by AnonC »

jamesmunns wrote: post #44

I actually really like DO spaces, I use it for hosting a small audio podcast. One downside is they give you NO way to see your bandwidth usage, other than seeing whether you got a bill overage or not. It was pretty surprising to me that they HAVE the information for billing, but don't expose it to the user of spaces in any way.

Could you please expand on how you host a podcast and what software you use (or point to resources that can help)? I’m assuming you mean hosting the podcast audio files, not just RSS feeds to the episode files stored elsewhere. Thank you.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by wongarsu »

MrDresden wrote: post #155
mythz wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$0.25 /GB is pretty expensive. I'm using Hetzner Storage Box [1] which has tonnes of connectivity options where 1TB is only 9.40€ (works out at 0.0094€ /GB) [1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box

I've never heard about Hetzner before, but those are some good prices. Have they been around for long, and you know of any external public audit that has been done on them?

Hetzner has been around since 1997 (as you will be able to tell from some of their UI).

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by contravariant »

ogre_codes wrote: post #69
contravariant wrote: post #57

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Well to be fair the remote backup is the part that's hardest to recreate with a self-hosted solution.

Is it? I used to do something similar with a couple rsync commands. In fact I think the rsync solution is more robust because you can create incremental backups.

Just having a secure/trustworthy/robust remote location to backup too is somewhat of a hassle. The backup itself is not the tricky bit.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by 5560675260 »

varispeed wrote: post #163
arsome wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As tarsnap is run by a single person, it seems hard to suggest it to serious businesses due to the inherent risks there as well as the extremely high storage costs and difficult cleanup procedures compared to competing tools. I tend to prefer solutions like restic + B2 for their price and support, where you at least have a larger company behind the storage backend, you could even directly use it with S3 and it'd stil…

When a business becomes serious? Do you need to hire several workers to look legitimate? If that's still not enough, do you need to make yourself a slave of VC? Only problem I can see is that one man operation is susceptible to the run over by a bus scenario. However that is still better than a woke VC asking the "owner" to cancel some users.

I would seriously prefer a service like this to be run by a two man team. Or at least have a guarantee that I'll get automatically notified if something happens to a sole operator.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by uncledave »

vicken wrote: post #139

Take a look at duplicity. http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ It does encrypted, incremental backups and can sync to many protocols including S3, DO Spaces, Dropbox, rsync, Mega.co...the list goes on. Super easy to set up. This is my go to backup solution for the cloud.

Duplicity is crazy unreliable. Had so many problems with that from memory ballooning to corruption.

Only thing I’ve found which is even fit for purpose so far is rdiff-backup.

For personal stuff I’m just using iCloud and time machine to local disks.

Re: Replacing Dropbox in favor of DigitalOcean spaces

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Post by ddorian43 »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #162
ddorian43 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is, you didn't step on a free video cdn. Cloudflare probits using video unless you're in Enterprise.

but isnt that using b2 ? is there a specific prohibition ?

Yes. The specific prohibition is that you can't serve video from Cloudflare whatever your backend is (unless Enterprise account). You can read their tos or forum if you need.
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