Which file hosting service for extreme large amount of data?

Backups are done best locally. If you still want to be able to access them without plunging a drive in you could run your own hidden service and configure either just use Tor or pay for Mullvad and configure that to run on the your server so your ISP can't see that your using Tor. However there are risks involved like if the onion url gets leked your kinda fucked and people have your files. /u/Paracelcus said it best, just use a hard drive.

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Step 1: Build a computer or buy an old one and get new hard drives for however much space you need and install them into the computer.

Step 2: Find a light weight Linux OS for maximum performance make sure it debian or ubuntu based (pref debian since its lighter by default).

Step 3: Install on the computer and while installing setup an LVM group and use LUKS encryption on all drives. (LVM makes all the drives work as one large drive. If you get one very large hard drive instead of multiple then you don't need to do this)

Step 4: Go into terminal on your new OS and run these commands:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install tor

sudo apt install samba

Step 5: Now find what port samba is running on and setup samba however you want. I would recommend YouTube for this.

Step 6: Run "sudo nano /etc/tor/torrc" then go down to where it says HiddenServiceDir and HiddenServicePort.

Step 7: Remove the # from the beginning of each line and change the port (default is 80 i think) to whatever samba is running on.

Step 8: Reboot and then run "sudo cat /var/lib/tor/hidden_service/hostname" and the output should be the onion URL of your file server.

Also I think there is a way to password protect your server but you have to research that. I don't know much about samba but any software that lets you send and receive files remotely should work as long as the port matches whats in torrc.

Good luck!

I meant more in the case of hosting anything accessible through an onion url, could be files shared or anything, even an application actually. But thanks a lot!

Should be the same instructions just replace samba with whatever app your wanting to host over an onion URL. Just make sure the IP and port match. 127.0.0.1 is the local loop back IP so that should be the same across all apps and some default ports are:

• SSH 22
• NGINX 80
• Monero Node (To connect to the node) 18081
• Monero Node (For your node to sync) 18080

I need some online backup, since my home / work environment is not the most secure. The files are all several encrypted and password protected, so an unauthorized user probably can't do anything with it. However it is dedicated that some user get the files. I need some special solution since the amount of data is really huge.

It has absolutely nothing (!) to do with CSAM or any video - picture content at all. However it would be better to not upload those files () in the clearweb and I need 3TB of space at least.

Of course this is an option too, but I think I would need some special place or office for running a server like that on my own...

Okay, reach out to me.

I need some online backup, since my home / work environment is not the most secure.

If this is the case you should be fine if you encrypt all the files, password protect your PGP key or whatever you use to decrypt.

Of course this is an option too, but I think I would need some special place or office for running a server like that on my own...

24TB-40TB hard drives exist, that being said they are quite costly I think about $400-$600 USD. You could get any old computer and follow the instructions I gave above and have it online. As for security, create an offline backup or 2 and store one at your house for quick recovery if a hacker deletes data on your server and give another to a family member or friend in the case you are robbed/raided you get raided.

Also try gzip to get down the file size if you haven't already.