Ploud Storage
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Ploud Storage (PSIADE, France) Netdisk and pan
caveatany-phoneno cardphoneRwrite-gated
| Free tier | No paid tier exists, so 1 TB is a ceiling and not a teaser unit TiB; metered on stored-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | 100 MiB upload chunk per the login page's oc_appconfig; the per-object ceiling is the Nextcloud default and is not published |
| Retention | Until deleted. Public link expiry defaults to 7 days unless changed. No retention clock on stored files |
| Egress | No traffic allotment is published in the wiki or on the portal. The service is presented as free for personal use with a donation page and no metering is mentioned |
| Identity | any-phone the signup form requires prenom, nom, date of birth, sexe, an international phone number and a postcode, plus the reCAPTCHA v3 human-verification widget. The JavaScript has no SMS or code path, so the only gate actually exercised is an email activation link |
| Limits | |
| Binding | write-gated 1 TB free with a working WebDAV endpoint clears the capacity and protocol filters. What binds is the signup: a phone number and an address are collected, and the form is a single-sponsor instance's only gate, so an account that survives is a favour rather than a contract. |
| Interface | webdav, rest, rclone |
| Tooling | rclone webdav, davfs2, curl -u, any Nextcloud client. The WebDAV endpoint is /remote.php/webdav/ for the legacy path and /remote.php/dav/ for the modern one, documented by the operator itself |
| Composes with | A clean 1 TB WebDAV bucket with no payment and no phone, which drops straight into rclone mount or a Cloudflare-fronted origin. Each account is an independent island and the signup form has a phone field, so farming is not free |
| Reliability | A single-sponsor instance operated by PSIADE in Toulouse. A 2024 help.nextcloud.com thread predicted imminent shutdown and reported stale certificates; the instance now answers status.php as Nextcloud 31.0.6.2 with valid TLS, so that post is stale, but one funding decision still ends it. The .jp mirror is dead |
| Notes | The best free Nextcloud in Europe by volume and the least durable: one sponsor, one data centre, and a 2024 forum thread that has already predicted its closure once. A reader should use it with a second copy and not as the second copy. |
| Evidence rung | reported |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
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Evidence (7)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | probe:https://storage.ploud.fr/status.php | HTTP 200, {"installed":true,"version":"31.0.6.2","productname":"Nextcloud"}, so a live current server |
| 2026-10-21 | probe:https://storage.ploud.fr/remote.php/dav/ | HTTP 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Ploud Storage", so the DAV read path exists and is auth-gated |
| 2026-10-21 | probe:https://storage.ploud.fr/remote.php/dav/files/ | HTTP 401, 584 bytes, real SabreDAV XML with Sabre\DAV\Exception\NotAuthenticated and X-Powered-By: PHP/8.3.8 |
| 2026-10-21 | wiki.ploud.fr/doku.php?id=services%3Aploud_storage | 'Vous disposez d'un espace de 500 Go ou 1 To' plus the explicit WebDAV URL https://storage.ploud.fr/remote.php/webdav/ |
| 2026-10-21 | www.ploud.fr/ | 'Ploud Storage: 1 espace de stockage securise et crypte de 1 To' |
| 2026-10-21 | wiki.ploud.fr/doku.php?id=a_propos%3Afrequently_asked_questi | operated by PSIADE SAS, servers in France near Paris, no ad model, donation page |
| 2026-10-21 | www.ploud.fr/js/off/ploud-off.js | signup posts to php/create_userv2.php with name, date of birth, sex, phone, postcode and email plus a grecaptcha token, with no SMS code anywhere in the bundle |
More fields (6)
{
"access_mode": "registration-gated",
"free_tier_exists": true,
"region": "France, near Paris",
"nextcloud_version": "31.0.6.2",
"webdav_paths": [
"/remote.php/webdav/",
"/remote.php/dav/"
],
"aliases": [
"Ploud Storage (PSIADE, FR)",
"Ploud Storage (PSIADE, Toulouse)"
]
}Unknown or withheld values (1)
$.free_tier.statedpartly-held