What do you use for cloud storage and why?

I’ve been wanting to move away from Dropbox for a long while, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Dropbox has always been super convenient and has just worked for me.

I’ve tried Tresoit but the low link sharing limits (2gb) and 10gb limit for files is somewhat of a deal breaker for me. I’ve been interested in Proton Drive for a while, but until their mac app is ready it’s unusable for me.

I’ve also tried self-hosting a nextcloud instance (multiple times) but I’ve always just had too many issues with it. It’s been inconsistent in actually backing up files from my mac, I’ve had so many file conflicts, etc. I have a truenas scale server, so if there are other self-hosted methods I should try let me know.

Currently, I’m looking at filen and sync.com, but I’ve heard both have their issues so I’m curious to hear everyones thoughts on them as well.

Thanks!

Noel,

Mega.

Free.

50 gb. Signed up years ago.

end-to-end encrypted, client side. they claim they don’t have my decryption key. But don’t ask me why/how tho, since i’m not Bruce Schneier.

Nice, various, and widespread 3rd-party clients especially for Android.

Good user base. No one share sugarsync, or box.com

Reslient service, i hope. I remember i once have Copy.com account, but they closed. RIP Zippyshare, etc

InfiniWheel,

Seconded. Still got my free 50GB Mega from years ago. I’m assuming they will reduce it someday but I shall use it at its fullest til that day comes.

Their clients are also source available, but I don’t think many outside people check them anyway.

tpWinthropeIII,

Filen.io

Works well so far, is end to end encrypted, open source, and the apps are nice and solid.

Tundra,

crypt.ee

hayhay,

I’ve never heard of crypt.ee till today, but wow is it amazing for all my document editing needs. Thank you!

capital, (edited )

Primarily on site with NextCloud for getting to my important documents via mobile.

Backups are going to Wasabi via restic but if you want to do something a little more “live”, rclone mount with Wasabi also works well, even on Windows.

As always, I suggest encrypting before putting it anywhere but your own devices.

WhiteHotaru,

So you want to backup or do you want to file share/work together on documents?

For backup I use Spideroak for all our families computers. It did a solid job over the last four Linux laptops and MacBooks I used. I only backup the home directory and the external drive with my Photo Library.

For Cloud Storage I use OneDrive. I don’t have much to share, so this is normally enough.

hayhay,

I’d say like 65% backup, 35% share/collaboration. It’s why this simple decision has become unnecessarily complex for me haha. I want a balance of privacy, yet I want the ease of access and user-friendliness of Dropbox.

From this thread, I think ente is partly perfect for my needs. I’ve been trying out filen and it’s been quite good, but I might stick with Dropbox till the Proton mac app launches and see how it is.

Might end up just doing NC + storej, though. Many have said NC has improved significantly as of late so it might be worth a look at once more.

M137,

Mega

I pay for it anyway since I was lucky enough to get a few accounts on a private forum where everything is shared via mega, it’s very active and a great community. Only a few times I haven’t found something I was looking for there, and that was quickly solved by posting a request. (The only way to join is to get personally invited. And no, I won’t use my invites for randoms, don’t ask).

Haven’t used torrents for close to a decade now, it’s nice to have basically anything easily findable with direct download from mega.

vox, (edited )
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google drive.
i pretty much sold my soul to google at this point
anyway they have my address, payment info, all of my photos since 2014, my preferences from YouTube, google maps data and since I’m using google location sharing and find my phone, they have access to my exact location at all times; and half of my payments go through google pay and I’m using android with my google account.

Yinchie,

Filen.io for files and Ente.io for photos.

hayhay,

How do you like Filen so far? I tried it out with a few directories and it felt very snappy. Plus, the .fileignore feature is phenomenal and I wish more providers would do it!

I heard when filen was first launched there were some issues with their encryption and some file loss, do you happen to know if this has largely been fixed? Thanks!

Churbleyimyam,

Check out YUNOhost. If you’ve gone off Nextcloud and just want to sync files you could simply install Syncthing and be done with it.

filister,

Take a look at www.storj.io, their prices are pretty low

Evotech, (edited )

Google

With cryptomator

It’s super cheap, and with cryptomator you can easily locally encrypt anything you put on there. With great iOS and Android support aswell

smeg,

I’ll second Cryptomator, it’s relatively convenient and means I can use the free tiers of Google Drive, Dropbox, Onedrive, etc without them having a nose through all my stuff

chemicalwonka,
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I migrated all my cloud files to M-Discs because in the near future, even if I encrypt my files with PGP before sending them to the cloud, big tech will be able to break their encryption. I don’t trust any big tech.

Extrasvhx9he, (edited )

Curious why M-disc specifically? Isn’t that storage media kind of expensive for the amount of storage space you get? Plus unless every disc is getting buried in a capsule, you would still have to baby it like any other optical disc even though its more durable.

Longmactoppedup,

I have started trialling mega. 20GB free.

So far so good.

One minor annoyance I have had is keepass .kdb files. You can’t just open from mega android, make changes and have it auto save back to the cloud. Have to save out, edit then share back in. There is a autosync app by a third party which I have not tried.

netchami,

I have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, but I don’t expose it to the internet, so I use Proton Drive if I need to share files with other people. I use self-hosted Immich to sync my photos from all of my devices.

furrowsofar,

I have Nextcloud on my Media Center. That is just on our LAN. For sharing I use Bitwarden Send. If I had a big file to share I probably would load it to Backblaze B2 and share the link. I pay for Bitwarden and I will pay for B2 once my use goes up more.

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