Ask HN: What Cloud storage provider(s) do you use?

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Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive, S3, etc?

Why?

If more than one, do you put specific files in one over the other?

Onedrive. Microsoft gives out storage every time I turn around. I think I have upwards of 300GB available at this point.

I got a Surface and Microsoft gave me 1tb.

We know someone with office 360 license so were added to that for free because up to 4 licensees can be added iirc. Gets me 1Tb of cloud plus all the office apps.

S3 because I am essentially tethered to the AWS ecosystem after receiving AWS credits from Y Combinator Office Hours. This is no complaint, I love the ecosystem.

Dropbox for syncing between computers S3 for backups and photos with mirroring to Google Drive (For faster restores) S3 for blog/static sites

OneDrive as I've got an O365 account and it backs up my pics on my Android phone :)

I've got a (paid) Google Drive account too and I'm considering using it for replication. Does anyone have an IFTT recipe to copy files between providers?

Forgot to add that I've got a free Dropbox account with old, unimportant stuff.

FYI, Google Photos[1] automatically backs up photos, besides being a decent gallery app.

It also doesn't use up any storage if you choose "High Quality" (probably visually lossless).

[1] - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

I use SpideroakONE

https://spideroak.com

( even though it's encrypted, I still encrypt it on the cmd before pushing it into the cloud )

Personally I use dropbox, blackblaze. In my day job we use Google Drive, S3.

try rclone.org

Thanks for sharing the link for rclone.org I'll give it a try asap!

Google drive for everything important, dropbox for random stuff.

BackBlaze B2 - Cost

Google Drive for random things

S3 for photos

Dropbox

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