Although users have commented saying their files actually didn’t get deleted, I don’t want to risk it now. I learned this going through writing the tutorial below. However, in the midst of writing this post, I discovered that OneDrive will treat Cryptomator encrypted files as a false positive for ransomware. In the original first draft of this blog post, I was planning to move to OneDrive using Cryptomator. Finally, Nextcloud provides an entire cloud ecosystem that I honestly don’t need at all. In addition, Nextcloud has been clunky and slow and their web/iOS apps leave a lot to be desired, which I won’t go into here. I’ve also had random issues with sync conflicts and the servers randomly going down.
NextCloud (paid through Cloudamo) - Pricey at ~$4/mo for 100 GB. Like Syncthing, I also don’t like not having a ‘pseudo-backup’ in the cloud via sync when hosting at home. NextCloud (Self-Hosted) - Worked decently when I tried it, but I don’t have a machine to dedicate to it, nor do I want to deal with uptime. MEGA - Requires trusting their client-side encryption and kind of pricey for my use case (~$5.90/mo for 400 GB storage). 
Microsoft Drive - Also cheap, but I’ve had pretty poor experiences with their client on MacOS with my work laptop. 
Google Drive - Cheap ($1.99/mo for 100 GB), but since I use my Google account for things like music collaboration and YouTube, I don’t want all my eggs in one basket in case my account is either randomly compromised or closed. However, I still have this account for collaboration Dropbox - As mentioned above, it’s way too expensive. Syncthing - Works great, but I like having the cloud as a ‘pseudo-backup’ for my files. That said, here’s a list of such cloud storage and/or sync clients I’ve tried: For example, Dropbox currently charges $11.99/mo with 2 TB as their lowest tier personal plan, which is more than I need for cloud storage. However most providers don’t offer plans with this low of storage. My storage needs aren’t too high, hovering around 20-25 GB of true storage needs. It also acts as a pseudo-backup (I use Backblaze and local drives for true backups with snapshots) in case I can’t access files on one of my machines. For context, I use cloud storage primarily for easy immediate access of important documents/files. Over the past year, I’ve been bouncing between several different cloud storage services and/or sync clients, each with their own trade-offs between convenience, privacy, and pricing. How I use Cryptomator to provide private cloud storage with iCloud
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