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I'm looking for a diskspace of possibly 1TB online

Edit: my idea is to use it like as an external harddisk for everyday stuff. Encrypt the disk, put my filesystem on it, mount it as external drive kinda. Never worry about backups or lost data etc, as the provider would take care of it

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

If you're into SCP/FTP/Rsync/SMB check out Hetzner Storage Servers. About 3 โ‚ฌ for 1 TB, including 10 snapshots

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure about cheapest, but Wasabi is affordable considering no data transfer fees

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Buyvm has 1TB for $5, but you need a GPS to connect to it, that is another $2. So $7 total for a small linux box with 1TB.

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[โ€“] extant 2 points 1 year ago

I wanted to do my own self-hosted storage but for the cost and features I went with Dropbox. It's $10 a month if you prepay for the year otherwise it's $12 and you get two terabytes of storage. For that you get all the same things most self-hosted solutions will offer including 30 days of versioning/backups. Additionally it's pretty popular so most software has built in integration which is convenient but not something you need. Bottom line is doing your own storage can be cheap but adding off-site backups gets expensive and just going straight to off-site backups (cloud storage) is going to be close to the $10-$12 dollars you'll pay anyway but you have to do all the work.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use either Discord or the unlisted feature of a random video/audio website depending on the circumstances.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most video websites have the option to make a video viewable only when someone has the link. The option is presented to you when you're uploading it.

[โ€“] LUHG_HANI 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like you don't have any sensitive info I must say.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who would see it if it's only viewable with the link? You'd have to show someone the link for that to happen.

[โ€“] LUHG_HANI 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have to much trust in these applications.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just how unlisted links work. People would eventually find comments and faves on their videos if the links allowed obscure backdoor entry.

[โ€“] LUHG_HANI 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No such thing as obscurity for security. Ticking timebomb.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] LUHG_HANI 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeh but you can extend a ticking timebomb with security.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"Can", yes. But there isn't much difference in most cases currently.

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