>>109176463
google will actively block you if you use gdrive to store encrypted or use a custom proprietary format they can't look at.

when they say they won't look, it means (unless legal requests ofc) that there won't be a human reading through your stuff, that means an algorithm is fine. it also means humans can look at what the algorithm found, as long as they don't directly look at your files.

but if you're worried about price, you should look into other solutions. I use hetzner for storage, and I pay something like 65usd/mo for 40TB, I am only limited in egress at about 20TB/month, otherwise I have to pay an additional $1/TB of traffic.

>>109176586
>but if you're worried about price, you should look into other solutions.

I'm not worried about price, I'm analyzing this from their perspective ("Why spend money on buying new hard drives when you can just let US store your data! But not that...never put that stuff on our servers.").

For my purposes I'm going to probably selfhost a cloud solution via Nextcloud.

>>109176463
Use an E2EE cloud like
>Tresorit
>Mega
>Filen
>Peergos
>Proton Drive

>>109176643
nextcloud works on any dedicated server/vps.

but if it's for personal use, i'd recommend sshfs/samba instead. nextcloud is useful when you need it's collaborative features, otherwise it's a complex mess.

last time I set it up it wouldn't even work properly without redis. if you just need an interface and the ability to share stuff with your normie friends, you should check out seafiles, it's much easier to use and setup, but I don't have your exact use case.

>>109176696
nta, but all of these are ridiculously expensive.
and when the price seems right, mega will rate limit you because traffic is heavily limited.

As always they'll say 'Unlimited traffic*'
*: fair use applies

meaning that you get maybe 500GB at max speed, then it's 56kbps for the rest of the month.

>>109176701
Personally I liked the broadness of Nextcloud because I see it as the thing that unpins me from Office 365 entirely thanks to all the other stuff you can bolt into it besides just cloud storage.

I already have my server rigged up for it, I just need to set it up. The reason I haven't is I haven't quite grasped how to properly set up reverse proxying so I can use a single IP with a separate subdomain for the Nextcloud stuff.

>>109176463
The gov literally forces them to AI scan everything on their servers for illegal material. Even if they wanted to follow their own rules which they obviously don't, they legally are obligated to snoop on you and report it all to the gov. You niggers had a chance to buy storage and you all said data hoarding was retarded and cheap HDDs were a waste of money.

Well here's the future you chose, enjoy. I unironically have so much storage I don't even know what to do with it at this point. I only need so many 12TB hdds buying 4 was overkill but whatever

>>109176739
reverse proxy are usually easy to setup, aside from a few missing headers, but nextcloud doesn't really seem picky about that:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/configuration_server/reverse_proxy_configuration.html

if you already have nginx/apache running on your server, I recommend you use it for reverse-proxying.

also if you have a real domain, you should get a cert, it's free if you use letsencrypt through certbot so you can have https on your nextcloud. You could be tempted to setup a local resolver like unbound on your router, but that means using self-signed certs which a lot of applications don't support (e.g if you use the mobile client, you'd have to add a root CA on your phone which is tedious)

>>109176755
>only 4 12tb's
you're NGMI

I do hope you've adopted a good easing strategies for when these drives start dying

4x12, that's at best 24tb if you run a raid10/01. or a raid5 with a replacement when a drive dies, and that without accounting for backups.

>>109176463
they can look at whatever they want, i will never store an unencrypted byte outside of my machine

>>109176463
>So, due to the insane costs of storage expansion, storing stuff on their cloud servers and paying for the "privilege" is a better proposition
I live in a shithole where even with no shortages, tech is expensive due to absurdly high import and sales taxes. Even with this situation, I could get a 6TB HDD for 25 dollars every month for twelve months and actually keep it after this time is up; Stores haven't been stocking 2TB or under lately, but last time I saw one it was listed at 120 bucks, meaning that it literally matched Google Drive in price for the first year.

Why you'd use cloud as your primary storage is beyond me

>>109177223
That's what the cloud wants you to do. I'm not into it myself.

I do use OneDrive for some things but mostly access to things I want in multiple locations. I have far more stored locally than I do out in the cloud.

>>109177468
My point is that at best, it matches local storage in terms of price, I'd understand it if say, you got 2TB for $1/mo, but at the same price it becomes silly. Off-site backups and file sharing are valid use cases