In the various ecosystems (Apple, Google, even Proton), there is a grouping of apps/function that needs to be duplicated with Linux (I’m on Pop!-OS Cosmic for computers, PureOS Crimson for phones). Currently we use Proton for most of these. We need end to end encrypted:
Cloud drive that intigrates/syncs with Linux like a network drive
Email, including custom domain, span protection, et al
A GOOD cloud photo sjolution for families (Ente.io is our current solution and we’re happy with it)
Password management, all the better if it has extentions for Firefox
What have you found works for you (even if it’s category isn’t on the above list) and why? Thanks!
I don’t know how helpful this will be to you but … have own VPSs … and they provide cloud drive if needed, email for a number of domains that I have registered, web hosting and hence of photos. As discussed here and here, passwords as in the context of password management, do not go anywhere near the cloud.
General philosophy: avoid dependency on external providers where possible (and avoid anything that is ‘free’ like the plague).
I have found that many VPSs like to sell layered tiers where if you need an upgrade in one area you pay to upgrade all services together i.e. bandwidth, total data throughput/mo, CPUs, system memory, and vSSD, it would be great if it were more common to see the buffet approach for every option to build a server package in the low price DIY user market. I ended up choosing a privacy VPS during a rarely offered locked-in sale price that had great fixed bandwidth and monthly up/down but single CPU, 512MB system memory, and only 20GB of SSD; I traded 1GB of SSD to swap to pad the system memory. I also bought a few 100GBs of lifetime plan cloud storage from a privacy cloud storage Filen.io mounted with rclone and I use it like a tape drive on an old TRS-80; big storage but not really random or live access. Speed for the cloud storage can be as low as 3MB/s but typically is around 5-8MB/s but before major changes in January and introduction of a stable and non-crashy rclone vs their native binary, which included a mounting function, the binary connected at around what seemed to be a cap of 30MB/s both ways. So in the end I have about 10-14GB of vSSD to work with live files depending how much I strip my OS down. Big care is also required in watching out for caching in the low vSSD environment as it is easy for the cloud storage mount to quickly cache up your whole small virtual disc and leave nothing for the user. Things like normal random chunk bittorrenting big stuff like wikipedia or openstreetmap block images is simply not possible direct to the cloud storage as well as other random access activities like hashing or using a cryptocurrency database for a live node. For those who value privacy there is merit in looking for VPS and cloud storage services who accept privacy crypto like XMR for payment vs using the KYC baking/transfer system.