this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
557 points (98.1% liked)
Privacy
32177 readers
500 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
If you’re fed up with companies fucking you over there’s an alternative.
There software called Nextcloud which you can run on a server which works in comparable ways as Onedrive/Google Drive/Dropbox/etc. works.
You could host it yourself on a server if you know how.
If you’re not familiar with forwarding ports or setting static IP adresses you can rent some server space from Hetzner where Nextcloud is included.
Any chance you could explain the basics of how the Hetzner thing would work? I'm noob
You go to this website from Hetzner:
https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
You sign up for one of the plans, cheapest is 5.11 EUR a month. You’ll get 1 TB of storage for this.
Storage Share is essentially some space on a server from Hetzner where the Nextcloud software is already running.
Their customer support is the worst I've ever experienced though. If nothing goes wrong,I guess they're okay.
I'd recommend skiff instead as not self hosted alternative
I havent yet dealt with the customer service so this is indeed something to keep in the back of my head.
Does internxt and skiff also provide fully setup nextcloud instances or do you need to set it up yourself?
I’m reading that nextcloud tends to break whenever you update it or perform administrative tasks. Hetzner does al this for you so that’s a bonus item.
Both of them are just encrypted cloud storage, not a private cloud like nextcloud