Lean and simple cloud storage alternative, simpleDrive

Many enterprises compete for the job of storing your data in the cloud – Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive (SkyDrive), Dropbox, Box, Copy – and all of these services offer a good deal of performance for very little money. The basic offerings with storage sizes up to 5GB are often even free. Without a doubt, though, the user is not just the customer, but also the product.

For this reason, users who set store in data protection and privacy often choose to use open source solutions such as ownCloud [1] or Seafile [2], which are already in use in many companies and educational organizations. The open source alternatives run natively on hosted web space or a Raspberry Pi.

SimpleDrive [3] offers another alternative to the major commercial vendors. The program, written in PHP, needs a web server with matching support and MySQL. You can rent the web space for a small amount or keep your data at home, at the office, or on your own server with an SSL certificate: This ensures that any data you store on simpleDrive is encrypted during transmission over the Internet.

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