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Fedi, please talk to me about cloud storage.

Currently I use rclone to make an encrypted backup of all user files on my desktop. Rclone can back up to many different cloud storage providers
Currently, I use both a local HDD and Google Drive. I chose Google because it offered the cheapest price for the amount of data I have (about 120 GB): I pay $30 per year for Google's 200 GB storage plan.

In an effort to reduce my reliance on Google, I am interested in switching to another provider.

The first issue is cost. I'm not an engineer. I don't have a huge salary and I have high medical expenses. So I don't want to switch to a provider that's much, much more expensive than what I'm paying now.

The second-cheapest option I've found is pcloud, which has a $50 per year option for 500 GB. That's more than I'm paying now, but it would also allow me to back up more things (notably, I am not currently making remote backups of all my emails and videos). They also have a "lifetime" option that costs four times as much as the annual plan, but "lifetime in the cloud" isn't actually lifetime.

But does PCloud have some terrible drawback I should know about? Do they have a parent company doing evil things? I don't think they provide end-to-end-encryption, but I am encrypting my data myself before sending it to the cloud anyways.

I checked several NextCloud providers and they are all a lot more expensive if you have over 100 GB of data. Proton Drive and Box are also a lot more expensive. Are there other options I should consider?

Note that while I do make local backups, I'm not comfortable "local only."

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