I’m working on moving away from MS Office. Installing LibreOffice was the easy part. However, I also need an alternative for online storage.
My primary use case is off-site backups for the most critical data from my NAS (around 300 GB). Ideally, the solution would also support additional software, helping me move away from non-EU applications. I’m looking for something reliable, easy to set up, and scalable over time.
In my research, I came across Hetzner’s managed storage, which seems promising (link). Nextcloud appears to be a flexible starting point. It offers reasonable pricing and servers based in Germany.
I also considered Proton, but it seems overpriced if I only need the storage component.
Are there other options I might have not considered?
For Canadians concerned about data sovereignty, sync.com puts your data onto Canadian servers.
I’ve been paying for my family for the last few years, and have been very happy.
I found https://drime.cloud/ a few days ago here on PieFed. Maybe that could be interesting.
Try Nextcloud. There are many providers, you can get a different one later that works the same if the terms change and you’re unhappy. You could also host it yourself, if you like.
I’ve been using kDrive for a few years and it’s been pretty decent. Have been considering switching to Nextcloud though honestly… The kDrive linux app (.appimage) isn’t great and is basically (as far as I can tell) a closed-source fork of an old Nextcloud client.
My biggest hurdle for switching to Nextcloud honestly is too much choice… I know it’s dumb, but I can’t decide on a provider… lol
To toot the Nextcloud horn and suggest a provider, I switched from GDrive to Nextcloud hosted on a Hetzner Storage Share a few months ago and it’s been smooth and fun, for 5-6€/month for 1TB (not sure how it compares, but it feels a acceptable, as GDrive was costing me 3€). Now I also have my calendar, tasks, and I’m currently migrating my bookmark managing from Raindrop. I used to share GPhoto albums with family and I’m trying this next with the Memories app.
However, it seems like there’s no solution to easily backup Whatsapp content without GDrive, but as long as there’s less than 15GB of stiff I can at least stay on Google’s free plan.
Nextcloud is really good. Try it.
I’ve been using Koofr and I am very happy. It works smooth and fast, they have great blogs for more custom stuff. Backuping local folders is very easy, I also got to replace Google Photos with it (2 in 1!).
Nextcloud seem to be a standard for many things. I’ve barely used it, you would need to choose a provider, maybe it would work with Hetzner. I think Nextcloud requires more work to set up than Koofr or OneDrive, but is more customizable.
Thanks for the suggestion. This looks like a good out of the box solution like Dropbox.
I went with Jottacloud for pure file storage.
If you need some online office functions, nextcloud could be a good solution. But then again there are companies like mailbox or ksuite which, which might offer well integrated solutions.
Sounds like a good solution with a reasonable price for storage. I am a little sceptical, when I read good privacy and ai picture search on the same page. Is this possible without the provider having full access to all the data?
Jottacloud?
Afaik these types of AI operations (e.g. face detection) can be done on the cheapest devices since years.
Pushing images through local models for classification shouldn’t be really concerning. But I would recommend to take a look at the terms of service and privacy notes.
