Cloud / File Hosting services
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Hi everyone,
Since my student account is about to expire and I am looking for alternative places to host my private documents and photos, I am wondering what the Vivaldi community recommends.
I am considering price and security as main deciding factors. The GB/TB space is also important, though I do not really need much. As I said, mainly documents and personal stuff.
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Hello @pchalkley
I personally use Proton because they have end-to-end and zero-knowledge encryption.
I found a couple of reviews of different online storage services:
- https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-cloud-storage-and-file-sharing-services
- https://www.tomsguide.com/buying-guide/best-cloud-storage
I hope that helps.
Regards,
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Thanks guys
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@pchalkley Sync. Like Proton (which I also use) it has end-to-end and zero-knowledge encryption. But limited to 5GB for free storage, like Proton. But you can get a bit more by completing some free tasks and by referral. In my case, I use for backup of documents only, so the space is fine.
The cheapest paid tier is $5/month billed annually for 200 GB.
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Cloud services are a risk of data-loss if you do not store your data on a extra external drive or local Network Storage (NAS).
Cloud storage providers exclude themselves by legal terms from being responsible for dataloss. -
Its a bit upfront but pcloud is pretty good, good software, good amount of storage.
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@pchalkley I use the free version of DropBox, which offers 2Gbytes of space. It is enough for me. The popups to upgrade or demonstrate the side-bar features are a bit annoying, but one can just ignore them without interrupting the upload.
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Also a good one is Terabox, it give you 1 TB for free, so it serve not only for the Vivaldi backup, but for the entire disk.
(Premium with 2 TB - €3.99/month)
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I have a few TBs of Ice Drive's cloud storage for backups and sharing files. Went with the lifetime one time purchase option, so hope they manage to stay online for a few years. Have extracted enough value out of my purchase to not be too upset if they went out of business tomorrow. Black Friday is definitely the best time to buy.
They aren't perfect in terms of privacy, being based in the UK, but they do have the option for a zero-knowledge encrypted section of your storage. I personally don't use that, and instead opt to use a third-party encryption tool called Cryptomator. That tool allows you to make any cloud storage provider have zero-knowledge encryption.
Does require a bit more setup, but it is nice to have encryption for sensitive documents.
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Thanks again guys. I decided to try Pcloud as Xuebee suggested. Also discoverd Jottacloud in my searches. It might not be unique but they had a family plan I might consider later. Kids are too small to care about something like that now but I know they will once they are a bit older.
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@DoctorG said in Cloud / File Hosting services:
Cloud services are a risk of data-loss if you do not store your data on a extra external drive or local Network Storage (NAS).
Cloud storage providers exclude themselves by legal terms from being responsible for dataloss.Pretty unlikely with the big established players I'd have thought. However, I'm currently using four cloud providers, in addition to local external drives - all automated.
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I like FileLu, OneDrive, and Google Cloud, InfiniCloud, Amaryllo, and a few more.
I should also mention https://syncthing.net/ ( https://github.com/syncthing/ )
It is a super simple way to sync your backup between computers (I do this with family members). -
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