OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH.<p>They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have <i>very</i> fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees down to what they now are and forced other ISPs to make their prices fairer).<p>[1] <a href="http://www.ovh.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ovh.co.uk/</a><p>[2] <a href="http://en.gandi.net/" rel="nofollow">http://en.gandi.net/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_%28ISP%29" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_%28ISP%29</a>
Seems to be based on OpenStack [1] Storage [2].
That means any client that supports OpenStack (and Rackspace Cloud Files [3], for that matter) like Cyberduck [4] and a lot more should already be compatible with hubiC.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.openstack.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.openstack.org/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://api.hubic.com/" rel="nofollow">https://api.hubic.com/</a><p>[3] <a href="http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/openstack" rel="nofollow">http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/openstack</a><p>[4] <a href="http://cyberduck.ch" rel="nofollow">http://cyberduck.ch</a>
> I confirm having read and fully understood the hubiC General COnditions<p>> PDF en français<p>Luckily, Google Translate provides mostly readable results, but if they present site in English they really should consider translating ToS too.<p>Although I was unable to share direct link (Google rejects to translate PDF from URL, only by direct upload), and the result not peeep.us-able, I was able to save it as a paste here to save others time downloading and uploading the PDF: <a href="http://dabblet.com/gist/8861421" rel="nofollow">http://dabblet.com/gist/8861421</a> (Dabblet seems broken, too, "view full page result" fails, so click "result" tab to get rid of unnecessary panes)<p>Some points I got(but may have misunderstood) from there:<p>- There're 10Mbps up/down bandwidth limits.<p>- You remain the sole owner of your data.<p>- Not allowed to store and/or share ("stocker et/ou partager") porn (huh‽) and some other kind of content considered indecent, disturbing or unlawful.<p>- They're not responsible for failed transfers, you explicitly agree have to check that the files succesfully uploaded by yourself.<p>- Commercial use of service is prohibited (uh... only personal accounts?)<p>- I didn't really get this part: "Le Client s'engage à régler directement à l'auteur de la réclamation toute somme que celui ci exigerait d’OVH." but Google says it translates to something like "The Customer agrees to pay directly to the author of the claim any amount that it would require OVH." From the context, I may guess the meaning is, that if you somehow caused some damage, you're going to protect OVH in court and if you/they're held responsible, you're going to pay those damages. Hmmm...
Android client wants access to my calendar and contacts for some reason. I'm gonna install it anyway because I can prevent it from accessing those things after the fact because I'm running an OpenPDroid modified Cyanogenmod.
Wow, that's sickly cheap!<p>Seems to be owned and run by OVH France.<p>But without encryption and private keys, i'd rather rent a server and use Duplicati.
Jesus that's cheap. Anyone know how good their differential syncing is, or what they are using (librsync?) Are they using inotify or is it a regular tree walk?
Just tried to sign up for the 10TB plan, figure it's a good price for backing up my archive of DNG photographs, which is about 1TB.<p>Not going well so far, credit card form was in french... Said it failed, it refreshed itself, says it's worked, but it isn't showing up on my account.<p>Something tells me that 10 euros is going to cost a hell of a lot more than that of my time getting to the bottom of this.
I started using it a year ago. I'm happy with it.
It's lacking a polished linux client (cli atm), but they're working on it.<p>On a Sdsl line my upload rate (pc <-> hubic) is 45kb/s, download is 120kb/s. Not mind blowing but it's enough for me, running in the background.<p>For casual sync and backup, I totaly recommend.
They seem to have clients for all the major operating systems. Desktop and mobile:
<a href="https://hubic.com/en/downloads" rel="nofollow">https://hubic.com/en/downloads</a><p>Linux (BETA), OSX, Windows, Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8, Blackberry
It seems that their links are already running at half capacity. <a href="http://weathermap.ovh.net/" rel="nofollow">http://weathermap.ovh.net/</a><p>OVH is a big company though, so I'm more or less confident that they can handle this smoothly.
From their forum: "As nearly 270,000 of you now use hubiC, we have been able to confirm our technical decisions and this volume has enabled us to further optimise our infrastructure and its performances.
Result: we're now able to lower our prices again, and this time we're aiming for nothing less than a million users!"<p>Let's see how that works out, OVH isn't really known to run a uncongested network. I'm still excited because it's just a crazy cheap place to move additional backups to.
For backups Backblaze is even cheaper, but I could see the advantage in using it as data storage and duplicating to my computer as needed. Probably cheaper than buying and managing my own hard drives; definitely safer.<p>Does anyone know how fast is the download from their servers?
I tried hubiC and it exactly same as dropbox, but worse services and better prices. So it is useless.
I need cloud storage which I could use "unsynchronized". If I had 10TB hardrive in my MAC, I would use it. But I have only 100 GB so it is useless
I dont know why everything about OVH 's graphics and design all seems to have a distinct lack of taste. In other words they are ugly.<p>Now back to topic.
How much is it in USD then? Since it paid in Euro and includes VAT by default. What if i dont need to pay VAT?
Pretty happy with Crashplan but I might sign up for this also just to have some storage I can access via an API. Crashplan only works with their client and their client isn't exactly lightweight to leave running 24/7.
I can't seem to find their privacy policy and ToS document is in French. I think I'll pass.<p>In fact, the only mention of privacy I found is "respect for privacy" in data security.
"The company has eight datacentres housing at least 145,000 machines."<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVH</a>
Upload is slow. From web interface it's around 300KB/s at the moment for me. Just for fun tried out Mega and it's 4MB/s-7MB/s there.
Are there really people who are turned off by dropbox prices?<p>I would take notice if someone made a dropbox with a valuable additional feature, or a dropbox that worked better (recognizing that already dropbox works very smoothly).<p>But price seems like a nonstarter.
Those prices are crazy and are not sustainable.
I don't think they're going to disappear, but customers should expect prices to rise in the future ...