Hi,
is there a cloud storage provider for private people that offers a few GiByte for a reasonable fee, is a European company that hosts in Europe and is very Free Software friendly?
Got asked that by someone and did not find many provider easily.
Found https://cloud.tab.digital/ from Latvia that offers Nextcloud for one user starting with 128 GByte at 60€/year or 72€/year 80 Gbyte for more users.
Found https://internxt.com/drive from Spain with 200 GB for 42€/year claiming that stuff is Free Software https://internxt.com/de/open-source They look less serious with a currently large introductory deal and a lifetime option (which cannot really work as costs will occur forever). Does anyone have experiences with this company, it software and services?
In Germany there is also Magenta Cloud and Strato which do not seem to be very Free Software friendly though. And https://mailbox.org/en/services#cloud-storage which does not seem to be available separately.
Regards, Bernhard
Hi Bernhard,
what about https://murena.com/cloud/ ?
Or https://www.hostsharing.net/loesungen/datencloud/ ?
Best regards, Herbert.
Am 29. Oktober 2023 20:05:54 MEZ schrieb "Bernhard E. Reiter" bernhard@fsfe.org:
Hi,
is there a cloud storage provider for private people that offers a few GiByte for a reasonable fee, is a European company that hosts in Europe and is very Free Software friendly?
Got asked that by someone and did not find many provider easily.
Found https://cloud.tab.digital/ from Latvia that offers Nextcloud for one user starting with 128 GByte at 60€/year or 72€/year 80 Gbyte for more users.
Found https://internxt.com/drive from Spain with 200 GB for 42€/year claiming that stuff is Free Software https://internxt.com/de/open-source They look less serious with a currently large introductory deal and a lifetime option (which cannot really work as costs will occur forever). Does anyone have experiences with this company, it software and services?
In Germany there is also Magenta Cloud and Strato which do not seem to be very Free Software friendly though. And https://mailbox.org/en/services#cloud-storage which does not seem to be available separately.
Regards, Bernhard
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Hi Herbert,
Am Sonntag, 29. Oktober 2023, 20:11:31 CET schrieb Herbert Thielen:
what about https://murena.com/cloud/ ?
ah, good idea I had forgotten that they also had a cloud storage option (using Nextcloud on Hetzner) and are based in Paris. I wonder why the Nextcloud partner recommendation did not show them.
Seems a bit more expensive at first look, also Nextcloud, but it is a cooperative based in Hamburg. Again interesting why https://nextcloud.com/partners/ does not list them.
Thanks for both ideas, Herbert! Bernhard
Am Sonntag, 29. Oktober 2023, 20:24:35 CET schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter:
Again interesting why https://nextcloud.com/partners/ does not list them.
And https://nextcloud.com/sign-up/ lists different ones than the partners, but maybe because the offer gratis accounts and they are just "certified providers".
So it seems harder than necesary to find a Nextcloud partner that offers a paid offers for home use.
Anyway if I would recommend going with Nextcloud (which seems a bit overkill for a bit of cloud storage) I would want to pay a reasonable free for it and that the company participates in and funds Nextcloud development. ;)
Regards, Bernhard
* Bernhard E. Reiter [2023-10-29 20:30 +0100]:
Am Sonntag, 29. Oktober 2023, 20:24:35 CET schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter:
Again interesting why https://nextcloud.com/partners/ does not list them.
And https://nextcloud.com/sign-up/ lists different ones than the partners, but maybe because the offer gratis accounts and they are just "certified providers".
From what I know one of the oldest ones from Germany is Portknox: https://portknox.net/en/prices I have recommended them to friends and family in the past and the feedback, especially about their support, was really good.
Best regards, Matthias
I have used Mythic Beasts in the UK since 2 years.
On 29 October 2023 19:05:54 GMT, "Bernhard E. Reiter" bernhard@fsfe.org wrote:
Hi,
is there a cloud storage provider for private people that offers a few GiByte for a reasonable fee, is a European company that hosts in Europe and is very Free Software friendly?
Got asked that by someone and did not find many provider easily.
Found https://cloud.tab.digital/ from Latvia that offers Nextcloud for one user starting with 128 GByte at 60€/year or 72€/year 80 Gbyte for more users.
Found https://internxt.com/drive from Spain with 200 GB for 42€/year claiming that stuff is Free Software https://internxt.com/de/open-source They look less serious with a currently large introductory deal and a lifetime option (which cannot really work as costs will occur forever). Does anyone have experiences with this company, it software and services?
In Germany there is also Magenta Cloud and Strato which do not seem to be very Free Software friendly though. And https://mailbox.org/en/services#cloud-storage which does not seem to be available separately.
Regards, Bernhard
-- FSFE -- Gründungsmitglied der Vollversammmlung blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard Unterstütze Freie Software: https://www.fsfe.org/support/support.de.html
On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 08:05:54PM +0100, Bernhard E. Reiter wrote:
is there a cloud storage provider for private people that offers a few GiByte for a reasonable fee, is a European company that hosts in Europe and is very Free Software friendly?
This one https://www.mijncloudoffice.nl/offerte/ is run by a LibreOffice contributor / foundation board member that I also know at acquaintance level personally.
He's more focused at providing a hosted "LibreOffice Online" instance than really pure storage, but since that happens through NextCloud, you do get the whole NextCloud experience. He's also very open to requests to install extra NextCloud modules, allow extra storage space, etc.
I'm also aware of https://tchncs.de/ that hosts all kinds of free software services (Matrix, email, CryptPad, GitLab and many others). CryptPad might work for your needs.
-- Lionel
Lionel, Joseph, Matthias,
thanks for your additional hints towards Nextcloud service providers. :)
I'm still not decided because Nextcloud is way too much software for just needing a "network drive" with a bit of storage. And the extra software parts needs to be maintained somehow. If I'd be going for nextcould I would try to find a service provider that pays a bit to nextcloud.
As for the pure remote filesystem clouds my list is * https://internxt.com/drive (claims to have published Free Software https://github.com/internxt )
(not known if they run Free Software on the backend and frontend (if neeeded)) for the next three:
* hetzner.com/storage/storage-box * Strato Hidrive * Dt. Telekom Magenta Cloud
Suggestions for pure remote file storage (without Nextcloud or similiar larger software packages) are still very welcome. (As always in Europe and Free Software friendly.)
Regards, Bernhard