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Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by dewey »

yoha wrote: post #30

OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH. They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees…

"They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive"

Have you ever dealt with their support? - I for myself am quite happy with my service (Dedicated server) so far (because I rarely had to deal with the support) but I've heard a few horror stories where some of their biggest UK customers basically got kicked out even though they stayed within the TOS and the terms they signed the contract for, or the thing about their DDoS protection kicking in, rebooting your server even though they are legit requests.

You can't beat their prices though.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by Already__Taken »

dpacmittal wrote: post #8
tmikaeld wrote: post #2

Wow, that's sickly cheap! Seems to be owned and run by OVH France. But without encryption and private keys, i'd rather rent a server and use Duplicati.

Well, you can always use LUKS, Truecrypt, EncFS or something similar. I'm more worried about data loss. How redundant is their storage?

If you have enough devices yourself does it matter much? I'd take uptime over redundancy. I always have 2 work pc copies + 2 laptops going. As long as they don't sync empty folders back down I don't mind a services that's only got light redundancy.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by mverwijs »

kseistrup wrote: post #19
kybernetikos wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know if it works on ARM? I'd be interested in running this on my network harddrive enclosure or perhaps a raspberry pi.

The Linux client requires mono 2.10+, so I assume this is something written in .NET.

I wonder.. could this be a fork of the ol' iFolder by Novell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFolder

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by simias »

gabriele wrote: post #15

Seems to be based on OpenStack [1] Storage [2]. That means any client that supports OpenStack (and Rackspace Cloud Files [3], for that matter) like Cyberduck [4] and a lot more should already be compatible with hubiC. [1] http://www.openstack.org/ [2] https://api.hubic.com/ [3] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/openstack [4] http://cyberduck.ch

Do you know a good client for Linux? Their official client [1] requires mono and I don't want to install that on my server (or even my desktop, for that matter).

[1] http://mir7.ovh.net/ovh-applications/hubic/hubiC-Linux/1.1.1...

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by tmikaeld »

certainly_not wrote: post #25
tmikaeld wrote: post #2

Wow, that's sickly cheap! Seems to be owned and run by OVH France. But without encryption and private keys, i'd rather rent a server and use Duplicati.

I can't understand how people trust (or even care about) server-provided encryption. There's no guarantee they or their friends can't open it on their servers. Unless you use your own solution, their encryption only provides protection in transit, against unaffiliated third parties.

When it comes to zero-knowledge encryption, it is hard to know how their implementation holds up without external audits. This is the same for other encryption applications (google Truecrypt audit).

EVault, Wuala, Tarsnap, SpiderOak, Norton Zone, KeepVault, Jungle Disk, ElephantDrive, CrashPlan, Carbonite, F-Secure, Handy Backup, IASO Backup, MediaFire, MEGA, OwnDrive, TeamDrive etc..

..all provide Zero-Knowledge encryption for their cloud backups, i think OVH should be able to at least the same.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by tmikaeld »

dewey wrote: post #31
yoha wrote: post #30

OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH. They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees…

"They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive" Have you ever dealt with their support? - I for myself am quite happy with my service (Dedicated server) so far (because I rarely had to deal with the support) but I've heard a few horror stories where some of their biggest UK customers basically got kicked out even though they stayed within the TOS and the terms they signed the contract for, o…

Do you have links to these "stories"?

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by drdaeman »

tmikaeld wrote: post #2

Wow, that's sickly cheap! Seems to be owned and run by OVH France. But without encryption and private keys, i'd rather rent a server and use Duplicati.

What prevents you from considering this as a bare storage backend to use with Duplicati or, say, TAHOE-LAFS?

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by rhizome31 »

yoha wrote: post #30

OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH. They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees…

I also use OVH as an ISP and quite happy so far. I had connectivity problems once and a technical person answered my email within a couple of hours. By the end of the day it was back to normal.

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by gabriele »

simias wrote: post #34
gabriele wrote: post #15

Seems to be based on OpenStack [1] Storage [2]. That means any client that supports OpenStack (and Rackspace Cloud Files [3], for that matter) like Cyberduck [4] and a lot more should already be compatible with hubiC. [1] http://www.openstack.org/ [2] https://api.hubic.com/ [3] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/openstack [4] http://cyberduck.ch

Do you know a good client for Linux? Their official client [1] requires mono and I don't want to install that on my server (or even my desktop, for that matter). [1] http://mir7.ovh.net/ovh-applications/hubic/hubiC-Linux/1.1.1...

Cloudfuse [1] allows you to mount remote OpenStack Storage. You'll need to tweak with the ~/.cloudfuse config file. I haven't tested it though.

[1] http://redbo.github.io/cloudfuse/

Re: 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

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Post by TheAnimus »

Just tried to sign up for the 10TB plan, figure it's a good price for backing up my archive of DNG photographs, which is about 1TB.

Not going well so far, credit card form was in french... Said it failed, it refreshed itself, says it's worked, but it isn't showing up on my account.

Something tells me that 10 euros is going to cost a hell of a lot more than that of my time getting to the bottom of this.

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