First Thing - I am doing when installing Windows for me and for my clients is to use Local Accounts, disable OneDrive... only if the user ask me to enable onedrive then enable it... I know that this seems oldschool... but I ve stucked in Y2K
Best for personal storage are NAS... but you must be careful / secure your network / update your nasbox (synology have a good system)
Creating Cloud Storage with VPS is also the same thing using OneDrive GoogleDrive... not the best option... nextcloud is a nice open source... but when "your files" are in one Host X named... you will always unprotected...
One good option to compress your personal files with a good password then upload them or use E2E encryption but all these ideas take time...
Evil company can still steal our data even we paid them.
My point is to use the unused storage that we paid for in the VPS instead of paying another services. Why waste it?
Evil company can still steal our data even we paid them.
My point is to use the unused storage that we paid for in the VPS instead of paying another services. Why waste it?
...not bad idea... but as you know vps are hosted at shared servers and you never know if "admin-of-host/company" what will do with your files...
but if using special client and special server side app - With end to end protection / it is someway better... (not the best... but it is a protection)
...not bad idea... but as you know vps are hosted at shared servers and you never know if "admin-of-host/company" what will do with your files...
but if using special client and special server side app - With end to end protection / it is someway better... (not the best... but it is a protection)
Evil company can still steal our data even we paid them.
My point is to use the unused storage that we paid for in the VPS instead of paying another services. Why waste it?
By the way, I just want to backup some B4X projects in a cheap and convenient way.
It is better to run a NAS locally but I don't want to waste electricity.
Sadly all of these services, included VPS and so on, will never be totally safe.
And we all know this.
They could sell your data, being hacked, stealed, the service itself could be ceased (hopefully not during the night without previous advice), hardware failure and so on.
Just to be clear, I agree with your idea to use something not so popular and maybe with a layer created by ourselves.
Even if our layer could be the weak point of the system.
as I understant... @Sagenut means - for personal files... not for backups (in many cases, hosting companies also not taking backups - is an extra option, and many times there are a lot of h/w failures)
as I understant... @Sagenut means - for personal files... not for backups (in many cases, hosting companies also not taking backups - is an extra option, and many times there are a lot of h/w failures)
No, what I mean is that they make backups in case of a hardware failure (without you knowing that) and they sell it also to you as an extra feature (with you knowing that this time if you select it). This is what happens as I have understood due to a hardware failure in my VPS provider...
Why do you ever need to have so called "cloud"? There are only two reasons - be able to access your data from anywhere and have remote back-up. So setup NAS in remote place and you are done with both benefits and without unexpected pitfalls.
Why do you ever need to have so called "cloud"? There are only two reasons - be able to access your data from anywhere and have remote back-up. So setup NAS in remote place and you are done with both benefits and without unexpected pitfalls.