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@kkarhan
> I'd not trust any "one time purchase" cloud storage because that model is unsustainable by virtue of recurring costs!
You may not trust it but you haven't I believe looked into this case. In which case your judgement is premature.
I won't argue against your intuition or gut feel for this, which I accept as understandable. Nor that I know that you are wrong.
Having understood the arguments for this, I believe it needs testing because it is a thing worth having.
They can upload them to a decentralised private cloud.
IPFS is not the best option IMO because it requires ongoing payments. But Autonomi requires only a one off payment and is encrypted.
My blog explains how this works for publishing websites using Autonomi Dweb, but websites are just files and the process for raw files is similar. But using Dweb you can provide a UI for downloads as a website if needed.
See: https://toast.happybeing.com
Hope that's of interest!
@jwildeboer @kkarhan
@happyborg @dalai @jwildeboer I'd not trust any "one time purchase" cloud storage because that model is unsustainable by virtue of recurring costs!
If one's already holding classes for #IT, it's either feasible to organize some (quota'd!) storage (i.e. #SSH access to a server) or expect the class members to have i.e. some cheap external HDD for that.
I don't expect them to backup several terabytes of data and if they need to, then there should certainly be budget for either S3 block storage and a cheap VPS or a "Storage VPS"…
Not to mention there's need to not just backup files, but databases.
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@kkarhan
> I'd not trust any "one time purchase" cloud storage because that model is unsustainable by virtue of recurring costs!
You may not trust it but you haven't I believe looked into this case. In which case your judgement is premature.
I won't argue against your intuition or gut feel for this, which I accept as understandable. Nor that I know that you are wrong.
Having understood the arguments for this, I believe it needs testing because it is a thing worth having.
@happyborg @dalai @jwildeboer most of these providers claim that they can recoup the cost with new purchases and shrinking costs for storage over time, which makes this truly a #PyramidScheme.
OFC they also throtthe users and don't expect everyone to max out their purchased storage quota instantly.
But I'm not just comparing against short-term filehosters but also in terms of #backups consider years, if not decades of uptime to be necessary to be useful.
Also mind you this ain't like #TeamViewer where the cost of infrastructure is negligible (just some "Rendrevous-Server" to exchange status info, IP addresses and facilitate "Hole Pubching" through #NAT & #Firewall which in theory doesn't reuire mich compute and bandwith to function.
We're talking Gigabytes if not Terabytes per User in storage and traffic.
And since this system isn't like some #ColdStorage like a #tape, this needs to be #HDDs that constantly spin and draw power.
Thanks for all the replies. I'm not sure with syncthing, as it's for synching. There are a lot of databases and i'm not sure if syncthing handels that ok. MariaDB, SQLDB, MongoDB and others.
And synching is not a backup. If the error is synct it's over.
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