[nfbcs] Google Drive, One Drive, or From Scratch

[Littlefield, Tyler]

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I recommend Dropbox as it works great. google drive has a downloader
which you can install, but I'm not sure how accessible it is as I just
started using it. The website is a bit of a pain--more so than Dropbox.

The thing to keep in mind with the VPS is that you won't generally get
a lot of storage unless you buy a really big system, at which point
you could just buy a cheap dedicated server and call it good. I pay
$60 for a nice one with 2 tb space and it works fine for what I need.
There are also security concerns with a lot of the protocols out there
to mount the drives. E.g: Samba over the internet etc, so it will need
to be configured by someone who knows for sure what they're doing so
that all your stuff can't be accessed remotely by everyone. There is
also the option of NFS, but that has another bunch of security issues
you need to consider as well. I set this up for someone a while back
so have some ideas in how to get it going. Finally, you'll also want a
system which you can back up to removable media. Many viruses will
infect any mounted drives (and some have started infecting
dropbox/google drive, as long as you are logged in).
On 1/17/2015 1:55 PM, Mary Donahue via nfbcs wrote:
> Good afternoon everyone,
> 
> 
> 
> Due to the inaccessibility of the Web interface of our current
> offsite file storage service we're considering an alternative 
> solution accessible via both a local drive and via the Web and
> possibly FTP. First we'd like to know what everyone's experiences
> have been with Google Drive or Microsoft's One Drive before we
> build a solution from the ground up.
> 
> 
> 
> This is in light of the issues we've had with my wife's computer
> and the remote procedure call situation we have with "Computer" in
> Windows 7 as well as to help us reduce the cost of remote file
> storage. Another possibility would be to use a VPS to build an
> offsite file storage solution that meets our needs and will be
> usable via an embedded drive in "Computer", via FTP, or the Webwith
> access technology and usable from any computer reguardless of the
> OS version running on that machine. The VPS route would also give
> us space to host Websites too. If you build it from scratch you
> know it will be accessible and will meet your needs.
> 
> 
> 
> Peter Donahue
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