I wonder if these services will ever reach mass adoption.
I consider myself to be technological advanced, but other than niche photographer, i wonder if 99.99 % of population would ever go through the effort of setting such a service ?
I consider myself to be technological advanced, but other than niche photographer, i wonder if 99.99 % of population would ever go through the effort of setting such a service ?
The added benefit of integrating federated social media is that if you want to share a file with your friends, there's zero load time because the file is already backed up on their Box, or it's striped across multiple Boxes and downloads quickly.
It would have to be dirt cheap though, like a Chromecast.
What is the problem being solved here? Apple already offers a solution – iCloud.
Why would they want to sell you a box for offline backups?
Apple doesn’t want to sell us a box. They want to sell us a subscription. My assertion is that Apple’s model of selling hardware would work for home servers.
The problem is something like: “I need to keep my family photos/files safe” or “I need to store customer orders and data” or “I need a way to protect my data when I drop my phone in the toilet.”
Even giant companies with eye-watering IT budgets see the appeal of having someone else manage their physical hardware and software infrastructure.. I haven’t worked at a company that owned its own servers in nearly a decade.
Apple doesn’t want to sell us a box and coincidentally nobody wants to buy a box.
It’s easy to reason about data locality. I can have a literal social network of just my actual friends and no tech company gets to spy on it.
Cloud backups are still good for disaster recovery if they are fully encrypted.
You know, with such a scary and complex network of online adversaries and government agencies, I wonder if I could pay someone else to manage that risk for me. My business is selling online greeting cards for pets and I don’t really specialize in network security and data protection.
Or the internet cube (https://internetcu.be/) ?
I use synology myself, don't have experience with qnap but I think it will be pretty similar. plug the box, activate the service, download the phone app and your photos are automatically synced and browsable from the device. You can add other services but the basic functionality is there.
By all means the software will be open-source (and mostly off-the-shelf if possible) so anyone can install it on whatever device they have, but the killer product will be the Box.
How do you figure?
Also you may be interested in checking out https://kubesail.com/homepage and https://privaterouter.com/