I'm banging my head on cloud services for my home. I've got 4 systems
at home, my wife's Windows 10 desktop, my Windows 10 desktop, a
Windows 10 laptop and an Ubuntu Laptop.

I've been going back and forth with Google Drive/G Suite, and it
mostly does what I want, and is cheap ($24/year for 100 gigs).

I have a free Office 365 subscription that's expiring in April. They
charge $70/year for 1 user and $100/year fro up to 5 users with 1 TB
each.

I have several Office 2010 keys, one 2013 license, and a 2016 license
through Office 365 that goes away when O365 expires. I' kicking myself
for not buying a handful of 2016 licenses through my former employer
when they were $9.95/each... :(

I still have a ton of email that I reference in Outlook PSTs.

I've used Google drive to share media to the laptops, and done quite a
bit of work with G Suite recently - and all of the companies I talk to
are running G suite.

I use OneNote heavily, Google Keep somewhat less.


I'd like to have one sync client running only, would like to have
access to my documents from Windows and Linux, and simplify what's
currently a mess of data.

My options are:

1. Google:
Migrate all of my documents over to Google Drive. I suppose I could
move my PSTs over to Gmail as well and say goodbye to Outlook. I still
need to use OneNote, and there's a free OneNote unbundled from Office
I could use - or I could move what I need into Keep.

It's cheap and is cross platform, but G Suite will still take some
getting used to. There's no drive sync for Linux. I could try using a
local sync tool, but see #3.

2. Microsoft/Online

I could renew Office365 and install 2016 on my windows machines and
use Office online on the Linux box. Move all of my data over to
OneDrive. Onedrive is certainly well integrated into Windows.

It's expensive, and I don't like the idea of continually having to pay
for Office; I'm used to paying for it one time.

3. Microsoft/Resilio Sync

I could stick with Office 2010/2013 and the free OneNote 2016 on my
Windows machines, and LibreOffice on the Linux box. I'd use Resilio
Sync (from the BitTorrent people) to do peer to peer sharing.

It's a great idea, doesn't cost a thing extra, and gives me some data resiliency, but while BT Sync worked well, Resilio Sync is tricky. It
wants to run as a system user, so getting permissions correct it a
pain. If I'm not mistaken, I was able to run BT Sync as auser and sync
a folder under my home directory no problem.

This will take some time, I misconfigured permissions while trying to
sync my documents and ended up with an empty documents folder. Thank
god for backups.

Resilio is nice, but I also like the idea of having a cloud backup
offsite.

4. Dropbox/Box

I have 50 GB on Box and 17 GB on Dropbox. There's a Linux client for
Dropbox that works well, but no Box client. Using one of those with
local apps would get me the cloud sharing, but no online access.




What are you folks doing for cloud storage and apps, and how well does it
work for you?

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Re: Clouded
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Thu Jan 26 2017 02:19 pm

I'm banging my head on cloud services for my home. I've got 4 systems
at home, my wife's Windows 10 desktop, my Windows 10 desktop, a
Windows 10 laptop and an Ubuntu Laptop.

I've been going back and forth with Google Drive/G Suite, and it
mostly does what I want, and is cheap ($24/year for 100 gigs).

I have a free Office 365 subscription that's expiring in April. They
charge $70/year for 1 user and $100/year fro up to 5 users with 1 TB
each.

I have several Office 2010 keys, one 2013 license, and a 2016 license through Office 365 that goes away when O365 expires. I' kicking myself
for not buying a handful of 2016 licenses through my former employer
when they were $9.95/each... :(

I still have a ton of email that I reference in Outlook PSTs.

I've used Google drive to share media to the laptops, and done quite a
bit of work with G Suite recently - and all of the companies I talk to
are running G suite.

get an ovh server. install proxmox.
i pay 50/month
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Re: Clouded
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Thu Jan 26 2017 02:19 pm

What are you folks doing for cloud storage and apps, and how well does it work for you?

I have Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. I use Google Drive for anything related to Google, Dropbox for private Git repositories, and OneDrive for everything else.

Personally, I like having the Office 365 subscription because I get the 1TB per user, the latest Microsoft Office, some Skype credits, and up to five users. I pay $10/month and I have been happy with it.

With Google Drive and Dropbox, I use the free accounts (yea.. I don't have any private programming projects, don't have the time anymore).

I would recommend Office 365, but they don't have a Linux client and I really wish that they did. I think there are 3rd-party applications out there, but not any I feel comfortable with. They do have a web browser client and you can edit Word docs and Excel spreadsheets in the web browser, but it doesn't work as well as the actual Microsoft Office apps.

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Re: Clouded
By: Poindexter Fortran to All on Thu Jan 26 2017 02:19 pm

What are you folks doing for cloud storage and apps, and how well does it work for you?

-+-
iCloud - Have had it since the .ME era. Has never let me down.

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Re: Clouded
By: jagossel to Poindexter Fortran on Fri Jan 27 2017 07:03 pm

Personally, I like having the Office 365 subscription because I get the 1TB per user, the latest Microsoft Office, some Skype credits, and up to five users. I pay $10/month and I have been happy with it.

I have a 365 subscription until 4/2017. I had a Surface promotion credit for 2 years of 100 GB storage. When MS caught flak for reducing the size of free OneDrive accounts, and you could petition them to keep your current size for a limited time, I did, while on the 100 GB promition - and they reduced my OneDrive limit from 100 GB to 30 GB. I reached out to technical support and went around in circles with them, and they ended up giving me a year of Office 365 for one user. That's coming up, and I pinged them to find out how much space I'd have after the 365 expiration, and they confirmed 15 GB. (My account page showed I'd have 30GB). Two days later, and it's back to 15GB on the account page. Annoying. I'm curious to see what will happen in April.

Most of the companies I'm talking to are running G Suite and Gmail, especially the smaller ones. On-premise servers seem to be going the way of the mainframe in smaller companies. I'm going to use Google Drive and G suite for a while to get the hang of them. I've been using Sheets and Docs since the beginning of summer and am getting the hang of them after running MS office for 25 years.

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