Open Source/Privacy Driven Cloud Storage

titan384 · March 23, 2020

Hey,

I have been using iCloud for quite a while now to store everything that i might need anywhere and as a backup to all the work/academic work that i never want to loose. I'll be done with college in the next few months and i am planning to ditch my laptop (MacBook Pro 2017) for a variety of reasons. I had been using icloud, as the computers i used in college are macs, and i have an ipad pro that i use all the time, also from what i know its more private thatn Google Drive and Onedrive. I hate google. Once I graduate I will be having a linux box or something, so iCloud isn't any convinient for me anymore. I would like to know of a cloud storage service which is private, preferably opensource, and does not claim any rights to use my data for their needs.

I am not a data hoarder, so I dont need a lot of storage, sub 500GB storage works great for me. I am ready to pay the equivalent of $8-10 per month for the storage.

Edit: I was watching a GN video where they talked about Linode, can I host a server and make it a storage server? How can i do that?

George. · March 23, 2020

5 minutes ago, titan384 said:

Hey,

I have been using iCloud for quite a while now to store everything that i might need anywhere and as a backup to all the work/academic work that i never want to loose. I'll be done with college in the next few months and i am planning to ditch my laptop (MacBook Pro 2017) for a variety of reasons. I had been using icloud, as the computers i used in college are macs, and i have an ipad pro that i use all the time, also from what i know its more private thatn Google Drive and Onedrive. I hate google. Once I graduate I will be having a linux box or something, so iCloud isn't any convinient for me anymore. I would like to know of a cloud storage service which is private, preferably opensource, and does not claim any rights to use my data for their needs.

I am not a data hoarder, so I dont need a lot of storage, sub 500GB storage works great for me. I am ready to pay the equivalent of $8-10 per month for the storage.

Have you considered hosting your own SFTP server (with a NAS) and just using that? Yes it won't be decentralized so you will rely on having internet access where the server is located but it's as private as it gets...also it's cheap if you don't need a lot of space (1tb hdd is around 40 euro or so...). A more adventurous plan would be making it decentralized and synchronizing multiple NAS-es located in different places you have access to.

titan384 · March 23, 2020

21 minutes ago, George. said:

Have you considered hosting your own SFTP server (with a NAS) and just using that? Yes it won't be decentralized so you will rely on having internet access where the server is located but it's as private as it gets...also it's cheap if you don't need a lot of space (1tb hdd is around 40 euro or so...). A more adventurous plan would be making it decentralized and synchronizing multiple NAS-es located in different places you have access to.

I have thought of that option, but there are a few issues that make it a lot les compelling. I dont really have a place of my own at the moment, and after college I'll be with my parents for some time, and then after at a training facility for the job and then i'll be posted somewhre i dont know yet.