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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by fareesh on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:23AM (#38434216)
$5/yr + hosting, which is way more than $5 unless you have a terabyte going unused in a box somewhere
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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by SamBam on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:42AM (#38434487)
I assume that "self-hosted" meant precisely that they own the box. A hard drive is under $10/terabyte.
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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by cornstalks on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:56AM (#38434697)
I was about to ask where you're seeing such cheap hard drives, but then I checked diskprices.com and saw that yes, there are indeed some drives for <$10/TB (current lowest price is $8.332/TB, and there are only 10 drives that are <$10/TB; I'm only looking at new drives).
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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by SamBam on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:24PM (#38436050)
I mean, I think my point is still valid for a $20/TB drive. It's a one-time cost, not monthly, and you're unlikely to exceed 1TB with Google Drive data.
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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by fareesh on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:26PM (#38435155)
Ah I assumed it was self-hosted but in the cloud somewhere
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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by mulmen on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:32PM (#38437843)
Self hosted means not in the cloud.
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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by gbalduzzi on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:41AM (#38434478)
Google storage for a personal account is 15gb if I'm not mistaked, why would you need 1tb?
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Re:Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data by sebmellen on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:00PM (#38437383)
Yes I host on a very cheap Hetzner VPS (which I use for other self-hosted Docker images as well) so it’s always up. The storage location is not on the VPS itself, it’s S3 and B2 compatible, so you can use AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, whatever.

I use Backblaze which is quite cheap and reliable: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037814594-B2....

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