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Why Personal Cloud Storage is so bad on Linux? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The main cloud services don't even work natively (GoogleDrive, OneDrive, iCloud) basically the only mainstream choice is Dropbox. I tried to use Google Drive in Mint, and it's a pain to get it to work, and usually it stops working after computer restarts.

Someone has a recommendation about how to handle these services?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well the thing is, I’m still not comfortable in opening up an attack surface like that. I would much rather pay for someone else to do that. Preferably someone who really knows what they are doing and keeps an eye on the constantly evolving security environment. There’s a bunch of other stuff happening in my life, so finding the time to play server admin isn’t that easy right now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are many professional Nextcloud holsters, for example: https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the link. Recently, I’ve been looking into nextcloud providers, but somehow I missed this company.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you need the online storage (or whatever self hosted service) just for yourself (and maybe some few people), it's very simple to set up a Wireguard instance. My server doesn't even show open ports to the outside world, but with Wireguard I can access my git, wiki, etc in my home LAN.
I haven't really tried any of the second tier Solutions like Tailscale. But when you have more users or a more complex environment, that could help.

Still, sharing stuff with "outsiders" would still be tricky, I guess - at least I haven't found a solution...