<i>In the beginning I thought all I had to do was move my files to a cloud provider that is not Apple or Google. There are plenty of end-to-end encrypted apps to choose from. Or are there?</i><p>Why do you need a third-party cloud provider?<p>What's wrong with hosting your own 'cloud provider'?<p>Back in 2011 while travelling overseas away from home, I lost a lot of files from both my home computer and from my laptop due to a misconfigured DropBox installation.<p>I realised then, and later, that anything stored in the cloud <i>does not belong to you at all</i>, it exists only because of the goodwill of a third party. And that goodwill can disappear <i>at any time at all, without notice.</i><p>The only way to ensure that those files belong to you is to host them yourself.