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I was on the free plan (which I'd worked up to 10.5GB of storage through various incentive programs they ran) and specifically objected to 1. Limiting me to th
by tsm 5y ago
I was on the free plan (which I'd worked up to 10.5GB of storage through various incentive programs they ran) and specifically objected to
1. Limiting me to three clients at once. (Work computer, personal computer (Linux), personal computer (Windows), phone—oops!
2. Bombarding me with "your storage is almost full!" notifications either by email or when I visited dropbox.com to, e.g., get a share link for someone. Usually I had over a gigabyte of storage left. The webapp was at times unusable due to the volume of notifications.
3. Prohibiting me from keeping offline copies of entire directories on my phone.
Now I'm spending $20/month on a VPS running Nextcloud and am much happier.
- wingerlang 5y agoSeems like all of your issues could be resolved by paying for it, which is WAY cheaper than $20/month.
- Kwpolska 5y agoI would expect them to be getting more value from the $20/month VPS, otherwise they could go with a $5/month plan (half of Dropbox’s cheapest plan). Myself, I resolved the 3-client limit (which they hit me with when switching to a new phone — trying to use backups stored in Dropbox) by a swift migration to OneDrive (where I have 40 GB of free space due to various offers and grandfathering, that’s plenty enough for me). The Linux situation isn’t ideal (there’s a reasonable CLI-only not-real-time client), but otherwise, it’s great. And if I did decide to pay, there’s a neat and cheap 100 GB plan for 2€/month, or a 69€/year plan with 1 TB and desktop Microsoft Office — a bargain compared to Dropbox’s 2-TB-and-not-much-else for €120/year plan. The only thing Dropbox has these days is name recognition and intertia, everyone else’s offerings are cheaper and have more features.