Dropbox REMOVED Votebox After Bitcoin Was Voted #1. Time To Switch?

[favdesu]

SpiderOak.com (My Ref: http://unurl.org/spideroak ) looks promising too though. Only downside is it's a US Company

Edit: seems like they accept bitcoin: https://spideroak.com/blog/20130812192940-private-and-encrypted-storage-for-bitcoin-spideroak-gives-it-a-try

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[herzmeister]

I recommend and use

1) ownCloud (works with a simple and cheap PHP shared host, I have 100 gig space currently). Although encryption is possible, ownCloud is designed to be browsable, so the keys would still necessarily have to be on the web host's server too. So it's good enough for personal but public or semi-public stuff like fotos, videos etc. The important thing here is that you retain the rights, unlike uploading them to facebook.

2) a SparkleShare + Bitbucket setup (also other hosts as well as one's own server possible, SparkleShare simply uses git as its backend). Not recommended for versioning large media files (that's not what git is made for), but it's ideal for very private, personal data and documents. In this scenario you'd both use account-based encryption (you'd upload the client-generated key to the server), and client-side encryption (you'll just have to let your repository/project/folder name end with "-crypto"), so file contents are scrambled and even the webhost can't see anything.

[datafish]

I've been using SpiderOak for about 6 months and really like the service.  It's much more sophisticated than Dropbox, and your data is encrypted before it leaves your computer.  You hold the encryption keys, not them.  They recently introduced a feature called "SpiderOak Hive" for those people who would simply like to organize all their synchronized files under one main directory, like Dropbox does.  Otherwise, you can individually select which files and directories get backed up and which directories get synced with which other directories on other machines.  This is really useful if you do cross-platform development and wish to keep configuration files synced between machines.

There is only one area where I think Dropbox is better, and that is speed of sync.  Sometimes I work on a piece of code right up until I shut down my computer at the office at the end of the day.  Dropbox usually has the file synced within seconds, while SpiderOak may take a minute or more.  For this scenario, I either use a flash drive or the free level of Dropbox service.

I'm already paid up for awhile, but if I weren't, I would take them up on their bitcoin offer.

[favdesu]

I've been using SpiderOak for about 6 months and really like the service.  It's much more sophisticated than Dropbox, and your data is encrypted before it leaves your computer.  You hold the encryption keys, not them.  They recently introduced a feature called "SpiderOak Hive" for those people who would simply like to organize all their synchronized files under one main directory, like Dropbox does.  Otherwise, you can individually select which files and directories get backed up and which directories get synced with which other directories on other machines.  This is really useful if you do cross-platform development and wish to keep configuration files synced between machines.

There is only one area where I think Dropbox is better, and that is speed of sync.  Sometimes I work on a piece of code right up until I shut down my computer at the office at the end of the day.  Dropbox usually has the file synced within seconds, while SpiderOak may take a minute or more.  For this scenario, I either use a flash drive or the free level of Dropbox service.

and the mobile apps are shit from spideroak. you actually can't upload from mobile which blows.

[callem]

From a privacy perspective, using dropbox for anything more than pictures of your cat is probably a pretty bad idea anyway.

[theonewhowaskazu]

PErsonally I really like the idea of Bittorrent Sync.

[jl2012]

PErsonally I really like the idea of Bittorrent Sync.

Closed-source cryptography? No way....

[favdesu]

From a privacy perspective, using dropbox for anything more than pictures of your cat is probably a pretty bad idea anyway.

I think it doesn't really matter if you use a truecrypt container

PErsonally I really like the idea of Bittorrent Sync.

not even open sourced

[Keldel]

This is extremely disrespectful to the customers. Fuck them!

[vindimy]

PErsonally I really like the idea of Bittorrent Sync.

Closed-source cryptography? No way....

What service do you use that offers features comparable to Dropbox?

[bbit]

Couldn't be me for this excellent idea! 

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

I never seriously used dropbox and I never will. SpiderOak is much better.

[TheButterZone]

Would you consider adding a plaintext file editor so we can sync our notes across devices? Dropbox has Write 2 Lite but I can't figure out how to use it with Sync other than 1-way saving and editing. Thanks in advance.

[Shallow]

Who cares about which file hosting site to use, there are 100's available and the bigger ones usually have backdoors in them.

[Mike Christ]

Who cares about which file hosting site to use, there are 100's available and the bigger ones usually have backdoors in them.

Dropbox isn't really comparable to Mega, unless I'm missing something and Mega does sync files between all my computers automatically.

[joesmoe2012]

I've stopped using dropbox and started using bittorrent sync + encfs

[Peter R]

SpiderOak looks like it fixes two of my Dropbox annoyances (Dropbox had no option for client-side encryption and Dropbox did not accept bitcoin payments).

According to the SpiderOak blog (Aug 2013), you can email them for a bitcoin deposit address and pay with BTC.  Has anyone done this? (sorry if I missed it in the thread).  

A few weaknesses I see:

1.  The mobile apps seem to be "read only" and also seems to expose your decryption-keys to the SpiderOak servers.  I guess it would be too computationally intensive to decrypt the files on a mobile device?

2.  Dropbox has "wife-friendly" features like automatically syncing photos.  Not too important for business, but nice to have, I think.


Can anyone who uses SpiderOak share any other "gotchas" that might disappoint someone switching over from a 100 Gbyte Dropbox account?

[DiamondCardz]

http://safebyte.com/

Although you currently need an invite code for it, but it looks VERY promising. It's currently in beta.

[favdesu]

http://safebyte.com/

Although you currently need an invite code for it, but it looks VERY promising. It's currently in beta.

what's so promising about it?

except for traffic restrictions and 1gb free space I can't seem to find any "features"

[Mike Christ]

Okay, I've tried spider oak.  Unfortunately, it seems that it's extremely unreliable with its own network; uploading wasn't an issue, but then downloading seems to simply not work whatsoever, I can't get it to go anywhere beyond 240 bytes transferred, nor can I directly download my files from the site.

I dunno if there's just a massive influx of new members or what, but anyway, I'll try out another one.