How to Build a Free Personal Cloud Using Open-Source Tools

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Hello developers, in today’s article, I will show you how you can build your cloud using open-source tools for free. I will show you how you can store the files, stream media, and sync backup to the cloud server.

If you want to freely host this software, you can check out the following options —

• Google Cloud Free Tier
  The free tier e2-micro compute instance comes with 0.25vCPU, 30GB disk storage, 1GB memory, and 200GB standard tier egress per month, and the region must be us-central1 | us-west1 | us-east1.
• Oracle Cloud Always Free Services
  AMD and ARM-based compute instances with varying free allowance and storage options (note: there were unconfirmed reports of randomly deleted “inactive” accounts).
• IBM LinuxONE Open Source Software Community Cloud
  Free IBM Z (s390x) VMs for open source projects (requires filling out a form).

This is the first question that comes to mind when we think of self-hosting any open-source application. So, a straightforward answer that I have for this is —…