Just to let you know Filmora mostly backed down. People who have lifetime licences will be honoured, if they paid for the upgrade they can choose a refund or a discounted FX package, and if they don't choose by a certain deadline they will just get the discounted FX package. Unfortunately they are looking at legal action against some of those who were spreading the word.
Since you included Cozy and Proton, you could have also mentioned Infomaniak - Fairly local to switzerland, and the free account is only available to people who have a phone number originating from some specific regions - but it also has a lot of good options and services like webmail and kmeet (for video meetings)
Don't, nextcloud is the buggiest of all open source products. It basically works for a solo user but anything above that is a mess. Especially if you need a colabora server.
I installed Nextcloud after your video about it and I absolutely love it. I never really gave in to other cloud providers apart from sharing files with others, so the jump to having my pictures auto-sync to Nextcloud and then to my PC (on Linux) is amazing to me - combined with the calendar and task management. I don't need Google in my life (apart from RU-vid). I'm stilll getting used to the syncing part to have all my important files.
I'm a paid Proton user, but at the moment I wouldn't recommend Proton Drive. Currently, it doesn't have any desktop OS integration, so there is no way to access the files without downloading and uploading them via the web browser. Clients have been announced for Windows and macOS, but they have been quiet on the Linux front. It's a shame as it's a service I'd really like to use.
Protondrive would be sick if it had a desktop app so you could sync folders. I think this is coming, but I think they will focus on Windows/Mac first. It'll probably be years before we get the linux client :(
Oh man, you have no idea how many people are requesting a Linux desktop client for Proton Drive on social media! But they always dismiss the conversation with plain corporate responses. It's so sad.
I have a Dropbox Plus account for many years, 10€/month for 2TB and I'm very satisfied with it. I'm a music producer for commercial media, so I carry all my audio sample libraries, client work, session files etc. on all my devices, hence the need for bigger storage sizes. However, I would have liked to switch to Proton Drive at some point and benefit from the Proton line of products as well, but 500GB is too little for me unfortunately.
True. It is not turned on by default but it can be set easily within the web configuration tool and it is very flexible for all sort of odd use cases people might have out there. It is really good! I have it on my NAS and it is just like having my own Dropbox!
@@RogerioPereiradaSilva77 I have tried syncthing off and on over the past 3 - 4 years, and I still find it wonky. I just ponied up and paid for ResilioSync. It just works without issue. Every now and then, some things are worth paying for.
If you are wondering what is stored by people who need a lot of server space. I use nextcloud and I have about 1 TB of data there. - 25 GB of photos (plus a few videos that I don't want to put in the videos folder) - about 100 MB of documents - almost 400 GB of music. Copies from my father's CDs, plus my [completely legally obtained] music, mostly in lossless formats - about 1 GB of wallpapers, a collection of paintings and other beautiful pictures - about 1 GB of materials related to electronics (books, schematic diagrams, datasheets, service manuals, etc.) - 170 GB of home video, mostly in DV format. I don't want to convert this to avoid quality loss - 300 GB of music videos and concerts that I like. There are some rare clips in the highest quality I could find Also on the same server (but not in the nextcloud) are stored backups from the parents' computers, recordings from surveillance cameras and videos from my RU-vid channel, just in case.
for me the most important was syncing files so I'm using syncthing, I was using nextcloud but its so slow that It was too annyoying. Syncthing is way much faster but of course its only for syncing files. As long as I'm using my own self hosted server I'm using it as my main syncthing server for storing files. Works great
I've used Nextcloud on my own server and I didn't notice any issues with speed. In large part, I think it just depends on the server specs and network bandwidth you have available. Syncthing isn't actually hosted so its performance depends on the computers syncing.
@@realhumanist71 One thing that makes Syncthing better than a server based solution is that it is peer-to-peer with the benefits that come with it. IE, I have a folder that I share on my main rig, my laptop, my work laptop, and a low-powered server on my local network that is always on. I drop a new file into that folder on my laptop and it has to sync it to the other machines once. Because they are peer-to-peer they share any segment of that file they have with the other machines. With a server-based solution the local machine syncs to the server, and the server syncs to each client machine resulting in the file being transferred multiple times. With that in mind it is easy to see how if one has several computers they are keeping in sync that Syncthing can be faster than a server-based solution like Nextcloud. On the other hand, if one is only syncing between 1-2 machines, the difference might not be as noticeable.
The Mega free plan gives you 20 GB, which I believe is the most. It also has native Linux clients for CLI and Desktop. I use the CLI client to backup some stuff from my file server.
@@davidson1464 The current plan is 20. You can get more if you sign up for "Achievements", like installing the mobile app, but that extra space is only good for 1 year.
I would love to see a walk through of how you set up you instance on linode and especially which of their products to pick when setting up that server. Mine is currently on a raspberry pi with 2tb of ssd and is working really well. But for ease of use and peace of mind I would like to transfer that to linode at some point.
I might be incorrect, but I thought Linode and Digital Ocean both had "one click" installs of Next Cloud. And I believe both have written tutorials on setting it up in their documentation. Edit : I just did a couple searches, and yes both have tutorials and their "marketplace" apps include NextCloud
@@javabeanz8549 Admittedly it has been some time since I looked it up, and I got confused somwhat by the different options and somewhat unclear prices. Could be it has become more clear since then, but that was my main reason for wanting to see it from someone who has already deployed a server there. But thanks for the heads up 🙂
@@IGqy I have not used NextCloud, but I have deployed servers on both Linode and Digital Ocean, been working for them for years. I have not deployed a new server on Linode recently, but I have on Digital Ocean, and the prices there were quite clear. As you select your options, the monthly and hourly costs are updated on the page as you configure your new server.
200GB is nowhere near enough for a photographer or videographer. RAW images and footage takes up an absolutely insane amount of space. Offline backups are best but if you want cloud then at least 1TB is needed.
I love Synching!!! It's absolutely amazing and I've been using it with my android and PCs. I also set it up for my wife and it's been working flawlessly for many years to sync her documents folders and pictures. I have it syncing to my Synology and my computers. Pretty nice personal cloud setup.
If you own a NAS or a Raspberry Pi or something that is always-on, you can use it as a SyncThing server. So you get the best of both worlds, and don't need to keep all of your clients turned on.
I also do that but I use Resilio Sync instead of Synchthing because it has more features like selective sync and you see all synced devices and folders on all devices.
Pleeeeeeeease don't recommend people move to Proton Drive just yet, it's really really rough at the moment and just a web interface and two mobile apps; there's no desktop sync program, let alone a selective cloud file sync function (only download files you want or on-demand) or API for integration in other apps yet. They _do_ have most of that on the roadmap, but it's still not here and Proton is a bit in the slow side of iterating. That being said, _when_ they get those features fleshed out, it will be a solid option for ex-Drive users.
The BEST solution is Synchthing or Resilio Sync(more powerful but not free) in combination with a NAS and a Raspberry PI. The Raspberry PI runs all the time and syncs all the data that has to be updated in real time and the NAS is the cold storage you turn on just once a month or if you need something to automatically back up everything with it.
Personally I use mega free plan and I don't have problem with it I often juggle with dif platform and hardware, so its sync is a must, and it's relatively easy to set up. (I also don't have the option to self-host and don't have much money, so the hosting and free plan work for me)
I use RU-vid as my own Google Drive. How I do it is upload my vids and set it to private and if I want the file, I convert the url to MP4 and download so that way I have unlimited storage.
I'm using pCloud for a couple of years now. After trying for a year I've bought a lifetime 500GB and works fine. Speed could be better and MacOS client i much worse than Dropbox (you have to restart system each time client is updated which is insane) but price is much better (or at least was when I've bought it) than competitors. Linux client could be better than just a binary file (like some flatpack or deb) - but I guess I can live with that as long as it works.
Yeah, it still doesn't feel quite right for me, as it provides a massive storage compared to other companies. What does Mega do, that other companies can't, to provide this massive storage? But still, it really is a good service for storing files that are not sensitive. I mostly store my game save files and some wallpapers, and for that purpose, it's going fantastic. Just be careful about your local laws as a lot of people use Mega's storage size for piracy, so your regional government may not allow it.
@@aaronplays_ True. Well, Nick said that it has a kind of a shady past but nowadays I rarely hear anything bad about them. I have a lot of important files like college documents, marksheet and a lot of other stuff so it's better for me to store them in the cloud rather than on a pendrive. Not to mention the fact that I did many important files a month ago.
RU-vid will probably not notify me your answer but... is it good? When it was released, it was AMAZING, but once my free trial with 50GBs expired, it just... froze. And I don't mean on the sense dropbox does, I mean, even after I cleared my folder on the desktop, it refused to sync back with the service to tell me I did exactly what they did me to do if I ran out of space lol It was really unfortunate.
Thanks to you, I truly enjoyed the process of learning about WHICH Linux distro to use on my mid-2011 Mac Mini. I stopped being afraid of TRYING all kinds of different distros; that’s the way I learned. I liked FORCING Elementary OS to host my LibreOffice, lol! I hope you have a happy 2023; I look forward to enjoying 2023 watching your interesting and fun videos! BTW…I self-host my “cloud”; that’s a challenge, lol!
i made my mega account back when It offered 50gb free storage and still retains it till this. though i rarely use it due to bad internet in my country im really glad it still contains my entire Archive of Tom and Jerry Episodes
I also made a Mega account back then. It's been so long since they downgraded the storage max that I sometimes wonder if I dreamed it because unfortunately I have forgotten the old credentials I used.
Is Cloud Storage really unavoidable? I myself have never found any use for it. Ok, you might call me old-fashioned, but that's all right. I prefer it to being called simply "old", which would be pretty correct also.
When I was a student and content creator: absolutely. I could not risk losing my entire thesis or content saved on my PC if it got stolen or died on me.
Lots of MEGA namedropping. I was one of those early adopters with the 50GB free plan & at one point one of the local ISPs teamed up with them to give you 200GB as long as you were a customer. I don’t use it as much as I used to; it’s a simple way to get photos off your phone in a pinch, but that’s the extent of its usage nowadays.
I love syncthing/syncthing-fork and is great way of syncing files around. Also I just call Mac OS, Darwin. Nextcloud is my main privately hosted cloud storage with S3 being my bulk storage as I keep a little under 250Tb and no one else has that much storage as a cloud storage provider that I know of. I am curious of something, is there anything open source that works like how google wave worked?
I don't know but since iCloud got E2EE I kinda lost interest in other alternatives, though I do understand that this would only work as a full Apple User. My emails/calendar are elsewhere, so everything else is E2EE. Especially iCloud Photos.. you get all the smart features (face grouping, categories, etc.) while it's still E2EE...
How is the myth of strong privacy laws in Switzerland so pervasive. Sure, it likely comes from the days of the banking secret, and the surviving traditioning of hiding all the dirt we can as long as no-one calls us out, but this is about money. There's no strong consumer privacy laws in Switzerland. We are miles (kilometers?) behind e.g. EUs privacy laws - though many Swiss companies obviously adhere to those, because just the Swiss market is a bit small.
Why was Synology Drive left out? It is by far the most user friendly self-hosted solution than all the other self-hosted storage software listed here. Synology Drive like Google Drive, integrates well with all Synology Apps and feels like a complete suite of applications.
I agree. I kept waiting for a Synology mention. It does have a startup cost since you need to buy the Synology NAS hardware to run the Synology DSM software. However, it is easy to set up, they've been around for a very long time, and the data is 100% under your own control (your data + your hardware.)
Great video. NextCloud user here - since you pointed it out first time long time ago, I tried it and got hooked up. Self hosted at home, works like a charm with VPN connection from anywhere. And now with the recognize function in photos...
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self-hosting? how much work is that, keep it up to date and secure? You’re not worried of getting hacked? Must have darn good security skills..
Don't even dream of getting Google Drive if you have lots of files. It takes hours and hours and hours to transfer files from GD to an external drive. Hours and hours and hours!
I rely on SyncThing to keep my photos synced from my phone to my Debian desktop. When I take a picture, it ends up at home. If I delete it from my phone - I have it set to stay on the server. Easy, permanent backup.
Does nextcloud have a good E2E implementation? That plugin hasn't been in development for a long time. I'd self or pay for it if E2E works well! Thanks for the video!
Interesting way to go. The only downside would be the limited storage of the phone so you would only use it for as many files you need and have storage for.
I personally don't use cloud storage for daily use. I use it purely for backup/disaster recovery. I have a nextcloud instance, but I don't connect it to the public internet for security reasons, so it's not truly a cloud server, just a home network server.
You can have your choice of data storage. You shouldn’t add hard drive as storage options it may cost a lot.. you could rather chose block storage from other providers and then link it next cloud
So, I'm seeing something there that costs 99 euros per year for 2TB. You know that costs considerably less for Microsoft OneDrive, and that includes the whole Office 365 suite which, despite ALL Linus fanboys claims is not the same as Libre Office - it's far superior. I don't want to trust my data to companies I've never heard of, especially if they list 'open source' as a plus point, when Microsoft, Google and Apple are companies I know. I'm not paranoid that Google are looking at my files. Why would they do that? My files are boring. And nothing is going to work with Apple's ecosystem like iCloud, so stop pretending any of your options is better.
Fantastic video as always, I'm taking notes. And btw, when it comes to "what the hell do you need more than 200 GiB for?", some of us are more than rural simpletons who store only images and videos 😀 🤣We have programs, codes, books, papers, software, CAD designs, structural analyses, repo backups, backups of backups, OS images, heavy software images and backups, saved games, movies and music, images, videos and documents of parents, grandparents, nieces and nephews, uncles and granduncles, etc., tons and tons of data sampled at many kHz in a few huge datasets, tons of 2D, 3D and 4D image data, tons and tons of text and prompt datasets, huge neural networks, an entire education worth of lecture videos and presentations, projects and their data, reports, analyses, results, codes, designs, etc., and of course, obviously, needless to say, most importantly, pr0n 😀. So yeah, I need quite a few TiB to feel comfy. And I'm not even a particularly active or complicated person.
I've been heavily looking into this the past few days not being happy with google drive third party apps on Linux, so you get a like from me... But man do i dislike those rounded window corners! To each their own though :) *Edit* One of the things that bothers me about this is they don't actually look anti-ailised. What DE is this? KDE?
Ok so i don't own Apple Devices but i did buy Apple iCloud+ and get 50GB of it. Since i don't have Apple Device i used Web Only Access for iCloud+ i have no problem with it until i started to share iCloud Drive to other user... The major disadvantage is that You cannot share iCloud Drive Link to someone which doesn't have an Apple ID, which Majority of People doesn't so it's kinda useless if you wanna to share to someone which doesn't have Apple ID, I don't know if there is a solution for this if someone know let me know by replying this.
13:08 what is a VPS and how is this worked into a home server? A home server needs a permanent ISP connection. A home server needs reliable hardware. A home computer often needs reinstall, typically losing all files (timeshift et al is a mess around). I like your home VPS suggestions, however I would need reliable hardware and an Internet connection I can totally disconnect (like a mobile phone hotspot).
I have a managed NextCloud instance. Everything for backup is encrypted and synced by rclone to a separate user account. The daily business account syncs only the newest filed before I delete them or put them into the backup location
The issue is, please correct me If im wrong, that Google Fotos (and Apple) are great Phone applications. Nextcloud is a dogshit application at least one Android and those mentioned by U are mediocre. Syncthing is great but not aß a Google alternative. So If U use a Nas for what most ppl need IT for then U need Google. Google is also relative cheap considering Nas Power usage monthly.
@@mentalmarvin We are of kindred spirits and believe in the old backup rule: If it's important - back it up, if it's very important - back it up twice, and if it's very, very, important - back it up three times with the third located off-site.
Proton Drive is still not a viable option for Linux users as there is still no sign of a Linux desktop client unless you want to try a work around which isn’t ideal.
I never really got this syncing stuff. Doesn't it just make more sense to make a symlink to \\PC1\c$\Users\Somebody\Documents (or whatever it might be)? My main usage of cloud storage is to host large files (stuff that github pages can't do). Dropbox seems perfect for this considering that (due to the storage limit only properly affecting sync) it's essentially free unlimited storage/hosting!
Why no one mentions ownCloud anymore? I know NextCloud is a fork of it. I installed ownCloud around the time the fork happened and was really puzzled whether to switch to NextCloud, but in the end I stayed with ownCloud. Did I bet the wrong horse?
Synchthing est absolument génial une fois configuré, histoire d’éviter des pertes de données accidentelles. J’utilise ça depuis des mois pour synchroniser mes cours principalement entre le portable et la tour une fois chez moi, je n’ai enfin plus besoin de ces clés usb que j’oubliais une fois sur 3
Listen,I just take older computers and use them as servers..Then you do not have to pay anyone nor do you need to keep your nodes on 24/7. Let's just grab like an i5 desktop or 2-4 of them, load them all with SATA Drives with SSDs for direct backup, or you run drives with RAID. It will be your personal network,it's in your location,and the backup location..You can encrypt it all as well..
@TheLinuxEXP Thanks Nick for all your inspiration in the world of Linux. 'Cause I'm forced to use OneDrive for education Cloud-storage, I'm searching for a Client to get access to the cloud-files. What can you recommend that for?
Hello, with Drive suite I have - Real good email - Excellent online office suite - Automatic sync of Google Drive with my android devices and online/offline sync with my windows computer - 100gb of spaces for less than 2€/month (that is what I need, more is not useful for me) - Automatic sync of all my photos on Google Photo, sharing the space - Simple share of each thing with my friends, if needed - Shared calendar Do you have any alternative that has all this options with the same price? Because one of the big reasons why I can't use linux as my main system is this one. And obviously I don't want spend 10 times more to have the same or worst service. Thank you
Great video! However, I'd like to note that Apple's iCloud Drive is now End-to-End Encrypted, as long as you activate Advanced Data Protection in your iCloud settings. This made me change my mind about moving away from Apple.
I suppose you were joking when you said "That's not true, we also hate French things." Didn't you have a review of another French thing you hate? VLC media player was invented by students at L'École Centrale in the nineties. I learned about it at the time from students who informed me about it. It was the best media player even then.
No matter how much we techies dance around cloud technologies, there is absolutely no alternative available to iCloud. Its seamless integration with iOS and Apple devices, backups and restores with iCloud account pretty much makes other cloud providers bite the dust.
4:23 SyncThing not having file sharing with others? In a narrow sense that's not true. You can add a SyncThing instance that's running on a friend's computer and then sync files from one of your shared folders to your friends' folder, or vice versa. Did it before. Works as one would expect. You just need to forward ports. edit: ...unless you mean public file sharing like a google drive type of thing. That's not possible iirc.
