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00:00 Intro
00:46 Sponsor: 100$ free credit for your Linux or Gaming server
01:44 Nextcloud: self hosted and open source
03:53 Syncthing: just FOSS file sync
05:17 Proton Drive: if you already use Proton mail
06:46 Cozy Cloud: French Connection
08:13 pCloud: competitive prices with encryption
09:28 MEGA: massive encrypted storage
10:54 Zoho: all in one workspace
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Nextcloud file storage is pretty powerful. It handles folders, you can favorite files and folders to get back to them easily, you can tag anything you like, you can share anything either with selected people, or with a public link, you can even add comments to any file, and it supports versioning as well to restore older versions if you want.

On top of that, you can also mount that storage as webdav, in any good file manager. On Linux, with GNOME and KDE, this happens automatically when you configure a nextcloud account in the online accounts settings.

And of course, you have a desktop client that lets you sync files either from a Nextcloud folder, or even from outside that folder, to make sure your files are where you want them.

Syncthing isn’t exactly cloud storage, it doesn’t store files on a cloud server, it just syncs them from one computer to the other, in real time. So you setup syncthing on your laptop and your desktop, and it will send files back and forth between both devices, without any intermediary in between.

If you’re already a ProtonMail customer, you might just want to look at Proton Drive.

It’s an end to end encrypted solution, hosted in Switzerland, with relatively strong privacy laws, that don’t really matter since everything is encrypted anyways, it’s not like someone could look at what you stored, since files are encrypted on your device before being sent to the cloud.

It’s also open source, and it obviously integrates well with the other Proton tools, like Mail or Calendar. Even though it’s encrypted, you can still share files with others without file size limits, as well as password protect files, define expiration dates for links, and more.

Another open source alternative is Cozy Cloud. It’s available for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows, and it gives you 5GB for free, with additional tiers at 50Gigs for 2 euros 99 per month, and 1TB for 9 euros 98. Still more expensive than Google, but also more private.

It also has auto import features from your phone camera roll to your drive, and can also automatically import certain documents from more than 100 providers, like your bills, health refunds, bank statements, and more, if you want.

pCloud is an option I used extensively in the past for all my cloud storage. It’s not open source, but it has optional encryption features if you want to make sure that you’re the only one that can look at your stuff. They’re on the affordable side, with 500Gigs costing you 50 euros per year, or about 4 euros per month, and 2 terabytes for 100 euros a year, or a bit more than 8 euros per month.

If what you need is massive storage space and you don’t want to self host, then I think Mega is your only option. Their base plans are more expensive than others, at 5 euros per month for 400 Gigs, but they can go up to 16Tb for 30 euros per month, which is a LOT of storage for not that much money, considering. The 2TB plan is on par with other options, at 10 euros per month.

And I can’t conclude this video without mentioning Zoho. If you don’t really care all that much about privacy or open source, but you still want to ditch big tech, then Zoho is probably your best bet. they have replacements for EVERYTHING google does, and a lot more on top of that, and prices are relatively inexpensive.