Answered: What is the best cloud storage provider?

Sat, 16 May 2026 14:46:17 +0000

I've been using dropbox cloud storage for 5 years now without any issues.

Mega is also another good cloud storage provider, but not as good as DropBox.

Although Google Drive is okay, I would not recommend them as they can easily flag your account even if the actual files are not illegal.

I had uploaded a few pictures of myself when I was a toddler that my mom sent me where I was naked from the waist down and one where I was a baby laying on a towel naked.

Well my Google Drive account was flagged for child porn and sexual abuse material, which was done by a bot and I lost my account.

I even had the police show up at my door and do an investigation and I had to go through court over the deal.

That's when I found out it was a bot and not an actual human that flagged it.

Although they were nude photos of a toddler and baby, the nude photos were of myself and were not illegal.

But I avoid uploading those now to any cloud storage providers and keep them on my own hard drive.

Naked photos of yourself or other kids are not child porn, just because they are nude, there has to also be intent and other factors in play.

Now if you have a collection of other peoples nude kids then that is classified as child porn, but having a few pictures of your own kids nude or even yourself nude as a kid is not child porn.

But you must also be careful and so you should never upload that kind of stuff to any public file storage.

Back in 2022 there was also a dad who took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor and google flagged him as being a criminal as they have automated tools to detect child porn and abusive images.

Answered: Is it safe to backup website files and database on Cloud Storage?

Thu, 07 May 2026 17:58:57 +0000

It is safe to backup website files and database on Cloud Storage.

Backing up website files and the database to your website on Cloud storage services is recommended and very convenient as well.

When you backup your website files and database to a cloud storage service, it protects those website files against theft, fires server failures, hacking etc.

To provide maximum protection for your website files and database on Cloud Storage, it's recommended that you use end to end encryption for the files like by using Cryptomator before uploading the files and database to cloud storage to ensure that only you can read the data.

However while backing up your website files and database on Cloud Storage is recommended, you should not rely just on the Cloud Storage backup for your website files and database.

You should also use specialized tools that take periodic snapshots and protect against accidental data deletion or ransomware and keep backups of your website files and database on other devices like thumb drives, computer hard drive, external hard drives etc.

Always maintain at least 3 copies of your website data, including your database on 2 different types of storage media, with at least 1 copy of the website data and database offsite like in Cloud Storage.

Use strong and unique passwords and multifactor authentication or MFA to prevent any unauthorized access to your cloud storage account.

There was a major Cpanel hack that occurred in April of 2026 that deleted a lot of files and corrupted databases and many people didn't have backups of their website files and database and are having to start over.

So it's important to keep several backups of your website files and database and if your website is a forum for example that gets updated frequently, you should take nightly backups.

The Cpanel hack also started as early as Feb 23rd, but a patch for Cpanel was not available yet.

Cpanel did however issue a patch and servers should now be protected as long as the Cpanel was updated.

If your website and server were infected, it's best to get a new server if on a VPS or dedicated server as the hackers could've left backdoors as they also rooted into the server.

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