Hivenet - Affordable cloud storage

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Hivenet offers the most budget-friendly cloud storage solution you can depend on.

Discover unparalleled value with Hivenet, your trustworthy source for secure and environmentally conscious cloud storage, and become part of a progressive community committed to transforming cloud storage into a sustainable venture. Utilize unused space on your devices to lower your monthly storage expenses while significantly reducing your carbon emissions related to cloud services by 77%.

Effortless Access: Your files are only a tap away. Store, share, and retrieve your data anytime, anywhere, from any device.

Offline Files: Access files from your account even without an internet connection and preview them using the Hivenet application.

Multiple Applications: Hivenet will synchronize your folders and files across your PC, Mac, and any device where Hivenet is installed.

Sustainable and Secure: We have developed an eco-friendly cloud solution that stands in stark contrast to traditional centralized data centers: our approach is energy-efficient and sustainable. Additionally, we encrypt and distribute your data across the network utilizing state-of-the-art encryption technology, ensuring complete privacy. Only you can access your files.

Community-Centric Storage: Hivenet is not just an application; our community is the driving force behind our distributed cloud, converting unused storage into a shared resource sustainably.

Globally Trusted: Join thousands of satisfied users who are part of the Hivenet community, optimizing their storage while aiding in the creation of a more sustainable future.

With Hivenet, you can save as much as 46% on storage expenses compared to many other providers (or even more) while supporting a greener digital environment. Our platform transcends traditional storage solutions, offering seamless file access across devices, strong security measures, and a collective resource utilization approach.

You can also install Hivenet on your desktop or laptop, turning your excess storage into a meaningful contribution to reduce carbon footprints (while enjoying lower monthly fees for every byte you contribute). Our distributed technology enhances power efficiency, ensuring that each byte contributes toward a greener planet.

Optimized for Both Mobile and Desktop: Begin your contributions on mobile for environmental and cost advantages, then further amplify your impact by integrating your desktop.

Discover a cloud storage solution that respects your privacy, supports your budget, and cares for our planet. Your pathway to economical and responsible cloud storage starts with Hivenet.

Sign up now for a complimentary Hivenet account and receive 25GB of storage on us.

Are you ready to be part of the cloud storage revolution? Experience the right way to store your files with Hivenet today.

A fully distributed cloud

Hivenet works on our proprietary distributed cloud infrastructure.

It brings together individual devices of community members, who contribute their storage space to create a secure and resilient network.

This network forms the backbone of all our services from cloud storage to computing, enabling us to provide our users with an affordable, efficient, sustainable, and highly private and secure cloud solution.

Hivenet is the sustainable alternative to traditional centralized data centers

All major cloud companies rely on huge data centers running 24/7. Our cloud is different - it uses hard drives of computers like yours so it doesn’t use any extra energy.

This is how

Hivenet works on our distributed cloud

Simple on the outside, complex on the inside. There is a lot of “magic” happening to keep your data private, safe, and ready to use.

Uploading and preparing your data

This is where your data gets split, encrypted, and encoded, ready for storage on Hivenet.

Chunk

Before the upload, your data is divided into manageable pieces, known as "chunks".

Compression and encryption

Each chunk is compressed using the zlib algorithm to minimize its size. Then we apply client-side encryption to ensure that no one, including Hivenet, can access your data. We use AES-GCM with a 256-bit key, which is considered quantum-safe.

Sharding and encoding

After encryption, chunks are further divided into shards and encoded using erasure codes (specifically, Reed-Solomon codes), resulting in additional shards.

This encoding allows for the retrieval of the original data with only 50% of available shards.

Storing and maintaining your data

Here's how we choose where to store your data and what we do to ensure it stays safe and accessible.

Node selection and dissemination

Hivenet selects the most suitable nodes based on reliability, capacity, performance, and location to host your data shards. The chosen shards are then uploaded to these nodes.

Monitoring and healing

Hivenet continually monitors the network to ensure data availability, even when nodes disappear. It tracks the redundancy ratio of your data (the total number of available shards divided by the number of shards required to reconstruct your data).

If the redundancy level falls below a safety threshold, the network triggers a swarm healing process to regenerate new shards, maintaining the desired redundancy ratio.

Retrieving your data

When you need your data back, this process ensures that you can download, decode, and decrypt your data.

Downloading and decoding

To retrieve your data, Hivenet downloads the minimum subset of shards needed to decode the chunks. The decoding process generates encrypted and compressed chunks.

Decryption and reconstruction

After retrieving the encryption keys from the network, the chunks are decrypted. This process is zero-knowledge and happens only on your device, ensuring your data's security. Following decryption, your data is reconstructed.