Kate MorleyDoes anyone here use a hosted, UK/EU/Switzerland-based alternative to Dropbox in a business setting? We tried out Proton Drive, but its sharing and permissions model is too basic for us — every folder has a single owner who is the only person who can share anything within it. We need to be able to do things like saying “this folder can be read by anyone in the design department and written to by design managers, and anyone with read access can also create links to share files within it”. We’re not interested in a self-hosted solution.
Steve Hill 🏴🇪🇺@katemorley we've been very happy with self-hosted Nextcloud, and I think they do a hosted platform - no idea if they do an EU based one but possibly @beasts might do that sort of thing?
Mythic Beasts@steve @katemorley we use Nextcloud ourselves and offer it as a managed service. Servers in the UK.
Robert Rudolf
Ciela@katemorley I heard good things about Nextcloud too. And it seems it has a good technical support.
Petr Ferschmann@katemorley hetzner offers nextcloud. (It is opensource and has many plugins)
Daniel Quinn@katemorley Syncthing might do the job. I believe it supports a multiuser setup.
ccchris@katemorley Go with Nextcloud. Find a hoster here: https://nextcloud.com/partners/
Acesabe
Margreet Windhorst@katemorley Had the same problems. Now using pCloud and very happy with that.
Walt Baldwin
Paul Schn@katemorley @hetzner 's managed Nextcloud called storage-share works so smooth. The only thing for me that was not working "out-of-the-box" was being able to editing documents on the nextcloud webinterface. I had to set up a collabora server and connect it to my storage share instance which works pretty good so far.
geekiviste@katemorley We use Seafile : https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
Gus Mitchell
Woonjas@katemorley TransIP has a cloud storage solution called Stack - they used to have a free version as well in the past but discontinued it after a data loss incident. I've used their free offering in the past, I have no experience with the paid for version.
🏳️⚧️@katemorley cryptdrive?
Illarion Koperski@katemorley I’m happy with Tresorit (Swiss-based)
lornajane@katemorley I’ve been very happy with @nextcloud and have it as a hosted service from @thegoodcloud in NL. I’m mostly a single user but I think it would support the use cases you described
TheGoodCloud@lornajane @katemorley @nextcloud
Glad to hear you're happy with the service! And, indeed, we do offer dedicated, hosted, and managed servers for business usage.
File structure and permissions can be a complicated beast to tackle, especially with all the fine-grained options Nextcloud offers, so we always offer custom implementation support to businesses to help folks get started.
Nextcloud 📱☁️💻@lornajane thanks for choosing Nextcloud! We are glad you are happy with our tools 💙
@katemorley your use case should be possible, as Nextcloud offers an option for sharing permissions, and you can share your items with different groups of users (see screenshot)
David A@katemorley +1 vote for Nextcloud. I use Ionos's UK-based managed service.