Hello, I am sick of those western softwares and now I want to fully switched to
chinese owned softwares, is it possible as an outsider to use chinese services?
Baidu and Alibaba might have you covered. But Chinese web services tend to require a laundry list of personal details and sometimes government ID to register for an account, if they’re even available to foreigners. Other considerations aside, the “security checks” and other knickknacks on Chinese web services are also just plain annoying. Is there anything that keeps you from self-hosting?
I won’t pretend that I have self-hosted storage that is reliably accessible from beyond my home, but most people who have set up a self-hosted cloud drive report that it can be done in a matter of hours on cheap second-hand hardware, which would also save you on subscription costs. You’ll also be spending some time migrating files over in either case already.
Baidu and Alibaba might have you covered. But Chinese web services tend to require a laundry list of personal details and sometimes government ID to register for an account, if they’re even available to foreigners. Other considerations aside, the “security checks” and other knickknacks on Chinese web services are also just plain annoying. Is there anything that keeps you from self-hosting?
Self hosting costs money and time and I don’t have neither of them :(
I won’t pretend that I have self-hosted storage that is reliably accessible from beyond my home, but most people who have set up a self-hosted cloud drive report that it can be done in a matter of hours on cheap second-hand hardware, which would also save you on subscription costs. You’ll also be spending some time migrating files over in either case already.