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Post by agumonkey » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 12:24 PM UTC

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…

Post by martinml » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 12:30 PM UTC

tmikaeld wrote: post #47

martinml wrote: post #43

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Not exactly what dewey was referring to, but for example they unilaterally cancelled their VoIP service to a large part of their customers in Europe, without any kind of explanation.

From what i read, they said that they didn't get enough customers and revenue to justify it's existence - what other reason should there be? And it was not sudden, they informed customers 3 months in advance. I've been with 3 swedish voip providers that shut down after a couple of years, so i'd guess it's hard to make it work.

Post by drdaeman » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 1:26 PM UTC

tmikaeld wrote: post #35

certainly_not wrote: post #25

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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 enc…

Post by uptown » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 1:29 PM UTC

Paul12345534 wrote: post #46

Pretty happy with Crashplan but I might sign up for this also just to have some storage I can access via an API. Crashplan only works with their client and their client isn't exactly lightweight to leave running 24/7.

Post by kseistrup » Fri, Feb 07, 2014, 1:37 PM UTC

drdaeman wrote: post #56

kseistrup wrote: post #54

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I don't think this is so obvious. They write that the files are encrypted with my password and that only I have access to them.

Could you provide a link for this statement? I found only statements about transport layer security, not about storage. Maybe it meant not "encrypted" but "protected"?