Ask HN: Good Alternative to Dropbox?
Recently I've been extremely disappointed by dropbox to the point where I've had to reluctantly delete my account and look at alternatives. I was hoping that you guys might be able to point me at a cloud storage solution that copes well with large numbers of files (>300k) on mac at a reasonable price point + preferable allows you to manipulate large numbers of files on the server side (through a web interface or alternative.)
An important note - it's very easy to get to large numbers of files if you ever a. store open source code you're playing with in your cloud solution, b. use git (it generates a lot of files.) - so 300k+ files isn't as outlandish a number as it sounds.
Background for those that are interested -
* I noticed the client was using 100% CPU and never seemed to enter the 'synced' state. A google suggested this was due to too many files, + a reinstall/cache clear could fix. Did this.
* 1 week later - No change. Contact support and received boilerplate copy/paste replies telling me it was too many files + either remove files/use selective sync. The latter crashes dropbox. Did the former.
* Several days later - no change, so send another email whereby I am told symlinks are the cause, despite the fact they've worked for over a year. I move all code (node_modules contain symlinks typically) from my dropbox leaving ~20k files left in there.
* Several days later - Still no change, so I try deleting files on the web interface. It won't let me delete a folder with more than an unstated number of files in it. Support suggest I manually delete 100's of thousands of files.
* Dropbox client starts overwriting files as I work on them.
* Support staff stop responding to emails.
The dropbox client could have at least warned me about the files, if this is an intractable problem. No. Silent failure.