{"id":3611,"date":"2019-01-17T09:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T09:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mohamedh.ml\/blog\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2020-02-08T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T11:31:13","slug":"a-quick-review-to-my-experience-with-hubic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohamedh.me\/blog\/a-quick-review-to-my-experience-with-hubic\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick review: my experience with Hubic cloud service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tl;dr: you can upload your data, you will never<\/em> retrieve it.<\/p>\n

Hubic is an online storage service, by the well-known OVH company. In case you don’t know, OVH is a French datacenter, providing servers, co-location services, and even internet access in France.<\/p>\n

Since Hubic is a service provided by OVH, you might think it is going to be a good service. Their prices are so promising. only 5\u20ac\/ month for 10 TB<\/p>\n

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I signed up for their service a couple of years ago. I used their web interface, their desktop app. I even tried 3rd apps like Swift Explorer<\/a> and Expandrive<\/a> . The results were just terrible.<\/p>\n

The bandwidth per user is officially limited to 10Mbit\/s (1 MByte\/s)<\/b> .  On top of that, you won’t even hit this number. Most of the time, the actual speed you will get will be about half of the promised speed.<\/p>\n

I uploaded about 4 TB on their service during months, and It took me about 2 months to retrieve my data in order to migrate to another service. And I should mention, that I only retrieved most data, but I ended up abandoning a huge part of my data.<\/p>\n

Also, I tried contacting their support several times, and they take a lot of time to respond. I contacted them a couple of times. The first time was by phone. I called OVH, and they simply told me that they do not provide support for Hubic, and I should contact Hubic directly, I also contacted them about the upload speed via twitter, they told me to send an email, and they din’t give a clear answer to my question on twitter. Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/mohamedh3\/status\/774225020457459712?cn=cmVwbHk%3D&refsrc=email<\/a>
\nThey responded later to my email with the following:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dear Mr Bassiouny,<\/p>\n

We apologize for the response time.<\/p>\n

On hubiC<\/span>, the bandwidth is limited to 10Mega (1000ko\/s upload\/download)
\nIt is normal that you can not exceed this limit.<\/p>\n

I remain available in case of any questions.<\/p>\n

Best regards,<\/p>\n

 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Now you know what the service looks like. It’s usable,maybe as an extra backup, or for archiving purposes. After all, it took a lot of time, but I still managed to get the data I needed. So simply when you think of it,you just get what you pay for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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