What are the best privacy and security minded alternatives for iCloud storage on IOS?
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As long as you don't own the hardware your data is at risk. I know you don't like the idea of self hosting because XYZ, but it's the only way forward. There are no good companies.
Where do you put your server without it getting destroyed by a house fire? (Genuine question, not rhetorical)
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Where do you put your server without it getting destroyed by a house fire? (Genuine question, not rhetorical)
You have multiple backups. Preferably, another selfhosted server at a friend or family member's house in combination with cloud storage, where you encrypt your data with your own key before backing it up at a storage provider, such as Backblaze, iDrive, Hetzner etc. In that way, you will minimize data loss in the event of a fire or the like.
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Yes ente is still new and haven't released v1 yet but they are doing awesome work and I'm currently trying it, I hope they will sustain well and keep there mission's core for the years to come !
yep! and now you can even self host ente!
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Stupid question:
Where do you put your self-host server?
At home? Idk where y'all live but most American homes are made of wood, and that aint good for fires. (And even if not wood, fires can still exist.)
I host servers both out of my home, out my wife's office and I also have some cloud servers at Digital Ocean.
If you're worried about data loss (and you should be) you need offsite backups. I have actually lost data to a fire (in 2009) and to a hard disk crash when I didn't learn my lesson the first time (in 2014). Never again.
I have backup servers at both my house and my wife's office. If you don't have a wife with a convenient office for this purpose, you could probably find a self host buddy to host your backup server (and maybe you could host your buddy's back up server, a friend and I used to do this years ago). You could also encrypt everything and then back the encrypted files up to the cloud, secure that the fascists almost certainly can't decrypt them, even if they get their hands on the raw data.
You can automate this. There are tools that can help. I'm kind of a power user and I just use rsync, scp, minio and database replication to automate my various backups, so I'm a bad person to ask about the easier to use tools that can do this. However, either of those communities I posted are full of people with better answers and I know that less DIY back up tools exist.
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yep! and now you can even self host ente!
Yes but if ente goes bankrupt even if the code is open and free (AGPLv3 if I remember correctly) it doesn't mean that it will find maintainers and even if it does the nooby customers will have a hard time knowing and transfering to the new repo/fork.
For these online services I totally understand that people prefer stability and sustainabilty over privacy. Remember CTemplar, Skiff, etc..?
Companies like Proton, Standard Notes, have proven that you can run a privacy business for over a decade but that does not mean every privacy product or services will sustain that long. -
Due to Apple pulling ADP from uk consumers I think it would be fitting for us to discuss and suggest alternatives that our uk members could use and switch to.
Just go through privacy guides. There’s a service or self hosted option for everything iCloud provided.
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