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Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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Would it be against your ToS if the OP hosted a small $5 Hetzner server that mounted your FS with sshfs and hosted files with a simple proxy?

Don't use hetzner for shit like this. They're EXTREMELY strict on abuse.

How is this abuse? You're paying hetzner for a VPS. If running a proxy server is an abuse of their TOS, then in my mind their service doesn't seem much more than a scam. I'm glad to know to avoid their service.

Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-sx

Please don't use hetzner for things like this, atleast for the public site proxy it with another VPS, Hetzner is strict on abuse and if it's against the law of another country it will be taken down.

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Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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post #33

Please allow me to offer you a free rsync.net account, in perpetuity, for the backup portion of your requirements. We don’t do hosting of any kind so you’ll have to secure that elsewhere. Just email info@rsync.net to discuss.

Would it be against your ToS if the OP hosted a small $5 Hetzner server that mounted your FS with sshfs and hosted files with a simple proxy?

Whoa that’s a cool trick!

It’s important to note, however, that sshfs has been archived by its creator. What this entails with regard to the future of the project is uncertain though.

Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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post #33

Please allow me to offer you a free rsync.net account, in perpetuity, for the backup portion of your requirements. We don’t do hosting of any kind so you’ll have to secure that elsewhere. Just email info@rsync.net to discuss.

It's lovely to see things like this.

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Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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post #65

https://docs.sia.tech/renting/how-to-rent-storage-on-sia How about this? I only host and get a lot of contracts. There is a free 100GB, I tested and the supported videos can be played in the browser. It has a 3 copy redundancy

And it won't last.

Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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post #54
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IPFS is a good solution in theory, but in my experience it works so poorly in practice that I wouldn't trust it as my only form of archival. Certainly add files to IPFS too if you want, but not exclusively .

Is Dat/hypercore or other similar alternative more reliable in practice? Are torrents better? (But wouldn't tracker hosting be a "chicken vs. egg" issue?)

Hmm, I remember Dat being a bit more reliable when I tried it, but I have used IPFS way more. Torrents are good too, but you can't update them, which might be an issue.

Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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> Some of you may know Hong Kong has been attacked by China and most of the pro democratic media companies have shut down... I also would like to host these files on a public domain, just to ensure more people can revisit on these events in the future.

I'm interested now. What happened?

Re: Advice needed for backing up and hosting large amount of files

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post #33

Please allow me to offer you a free rsync.net account, in perpetuity, for the backup portion of your requirements. We don’t do hosting of any kind so you’ll have to secure that elsewhere. Just email info@rsync.net to discuss.

I am looking to wean off Dropbox. Do you know if Syncthing in combination with rsync is a good combo?
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