Dropbox alternatives
Jan 12, 2014, 6:19 am
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Dropbox alternatives
I've been having issues with Dropbox for the last few days and have been unable to get hold of anyone at the company to tell me what is going on. I've been a paid customer for a while and in light of this major incident have decided to move my business elsewhere.
I've done some research and I think I will go with Wuala. They seem to offer a very good level of security at a reasonable price (9.99€). Do you guys have any experience with them or some similar service?
I've done some research and I think I will go with Wuala. They seem to offer a very good level of security at a reasonable price (9.99€). Do you guys have any experience with them or some similar service?
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Jan 12, 2014, 7:08 am
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Dropbox was attacked. They are up now.
https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/01/dropbox-status-update/
http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/10/dropbo...tenance-issue/
No experience with wuala. I use dropbox on my mobile devices, no one else seems to have the third party app integration that dropbox has...
https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/01/dropbox-status-update/
http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/10/dropbo...tenance-issue/
No experience with wuala. I use dropbox on my mobile devices, no one else seems to have the third party app integration that dropbox has...
Jan 12, 2014, 9:00 am
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My Dropbox has been fine and just did a bit of desktop housekeeping this morning, it's sync. with its own partitioned HDD on the "home" server. DDos happened 24/7/365 on the web, still have as much faith in their cyber-security as what I store on SkyDrive & Google Drive, etc. 
It really depends on what OP use Dropbox for, given his/her unspecified physical locale, and the alternatives and selecting a Swiss-based provider certainly has its advantage vs. US-based ones, for fairly obvious reasons. Not all of them run on the Linux platform & that's important to me. As a general rule, I do not enable automatic iCloud storage functions on tablets & smartphones.
It really depends on what OP use Dropbox for, given his/her unspecified physical locale, and the alternatives and selecting a Swiss-based provider certainly has its advantage vs. US-based ones, for fairly obvious reasons. Not all of them run on the Linux platform & that's important to me. As a general rule, I do not enable automatic iCloud storage functions on tablets & smartphones.
Jan 12, 2014, 12:24 pm
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They had an outage after planned maintenance. This was mainly fixed after a few hours, but apparently there are still some lingering issues.
During the outage, at least one "hacker" group took credit on Twitter for the outage, claiming that they had hacked the site and stolen user credential. They even went as far as publishing a small number of the credentials they had "stolen" - which turned out to be credentials taken from a mailing list for an Irish website several months ago and had nothing at all to do with DropBox.
You can find the latest on the outage at https://tech.dropbox.com/
During the outage, at least one "hacker" group took credit on Twitter for the outage, claiming that they had hacked the site and stolen user credential. They even went as far as publishing a small number of the credentials they had "stolen" - which turned out to be credentials taken from a mailing list for an Irish website several months ago and had nothing at all to do with DropBox.
You can find the latest on the outage at https://tech.dropbox.com/
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Jan 12, 2014, 3:05 pm
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It depends a lot on what features are important to you.
I chose to "roll my own". I run OpenUpload on a linux (Debian) VM at home. Total Cost: $0. My colleagues and customers also use it to send each other files.
No one to blame for security/privacy but myself.
I chose to "roll my own". I run OpenUpload on a linux (Debian) VM at home. Total Cost: $0. My colleagues and customers also use it to send each other files.
No one to blame for security/privacy but myself.
Jan 13, 2014, 11:30 am
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Jan 13, 2014, 11:35 am
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As part of a transition to a new computer, I took a long look at cloud storage. I finally opted for SkyDrive, in part because their prices are better than Dropbox.
I looked at Box a long time, particularly since I have 50GB of free storage with them. For the life of me I couldn't figure out whether I could continually sync a folder and subfolders automatically on a free plan, or if that's only available with paid plans. Their help/support materials are a complete mess. (If anyone knows the answer to that question, I'd love to hear it.)
I looked at Box a long time, particularly since I have 50GB of free storage with them. For the life of me I couldn't figure out whether I could continually sync a folder and subfolders automatically on a free plan, or if that's only available with paid plans. Their help/support materials are a complete mess. (If anyone knows the answer to that question, I'd love to hear it.)
Jan 13, 2014, 1:20 pm
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One other option: Sharefile by Citrix http://www.sharefile.com/
Jan 13, 2014, 1:59 pm
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I've been using Box since getting 50gb free for downloading the app on an LG smartphone. My only complaint is the 250mb individual file size limitation for free-personal accounts, but the only time it's ever been an issue was when trying to get a friend back home to upload an MKV movie for me to watch when I was on the road and forgot to bring any with me.
Jan 13, 2014, 3:09 pm
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