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I've used MEGA for about 6 years now, previously Dropbox. I switched after Dropbox lost over 2TB of my data.
MEGA hasn't lost my data but something glitched on their side and duplicated every file, and with the amount of data I had in there it wasn't feasible to manually fix. So I had to delete everything and start again.
I have all my cloud data stored on a NAS at home, that is backed up to a second NAS decice, a MEGA sync client running on home server keeps it all in sync to the cloud. I selectively sync folders from MEGA on different devices, or access files directly from the MEGA app when remote, or work with the local copy of my data when connected to home LAN. At least MEGA works cross platform, and MEGAcmd for Linux allows easy scripting and other automation possibilities.
All commercial cloud storage has one major problem, your files are hostage to their increasing subscription fees (which will always increase because capitalism). e.g. I was paying $60 a year with Dropbox, if I were still using it, it would be $140 a year now - and I'd have no choice but to keep paying.
How? Randomly gone? Hard to believe that.
I mean the OP is talking about the same thing happening with Google so what makes it so hard to believe?
It's not hard to believe. My experience with Dropbox was fucking terrible. The company engages in bait and switch sales tactics, so there is really no reason to trust the technical portion of their service to be reliable.
This was in 2016. I accepted an invite to join a Dropbox Business account from my employer. This was linked to my personal account. It was early days for this at Dropbox, and there was a bug. When the accounts got linked it completely wiped my personal account.
What are you talking about? The amount of storage you get increases at a higher rate than the cost. That's what people generally require... But anyway, you sound fairly technical. Why aren't you using S3? I've got hundreds of gigs backed up and it's like $10/mo.
I looked at S3 but I wanted easy consumer functionality like link sharing, web apps, mobile apps, desktop apps, photo management. I'm technical but I haven't got endless time to play around with stuff I am in my 40s. I now have over 12TB of personal data (files spanning back to the 1980s).
could use nextcloud with s3, might work for what you need.
Try getting something out of S3 then check the bill.