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What is the best cloud storage provider right now? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What is the best cloud storage that gives a nice balance between features and privacy? I know you can manually encrypt files to use any provider, but I would prefer an open source E2EE for the sake of convenience.

Currently I have heard about the following:

proton
filen
sync
icedrive
pcloud

(Not including GDrive, Onedrive etc..)

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[–] TheBigBrother 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Self-host

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Unless you're hosting that off site, it's not really fulfilling the same complete purpose of cloud storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What do you mean, self-hosted is equally reachable regardless of where it's hosted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

i'm gonna play devils advocate and say you could rent cloud space on say a vps and host your own solution there instead of locally. it'd probably be better if you have the know how to do it properly.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You can self host and make it accessible only to you from anywhere in the world.

You might be thinking about it not fulfilling the 3-2-1 backup strategy, but as long as you have a remote copy of the data through some means then you have the remote copy fulfilled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm aware.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I do.

All data is replicated 3x locally, with one cloud. backup.

Having all data in one physical location makes for a single failure point.