Advertising based free commercial cloud hosts

OffiDocs ( LibreOffice Online [LO 6.1.1.2] ?? gig document storage, Chrome Ext. & Firefox Addon w/ Google Drive integration )







Offidocs offers a collection of desktop software running under Linux using a remote desktop displayed back to you in a web browser, such as GIMP and Apache OpenOffice.

The site also offers free of charge, if you don't mind Google ads following along, the most current, of the four reviewed here, use of LibreOffice OnLine in your browser.

OffiDocs is the only of the four hosting sites reviewed which currently supports templates, though a very limited number of simple files, all in Microsoft Office file formats.

OffiDoc defaults to OOXML file format for documents created at the site. If you want to get an ODF format file you will need to save as ODF with the file open in the Libreoffice editor.

GMX.com

GMX is one of Germany's earliest free email services starting in 1997. Along with free, advertisement based, email services the site also offers standard calendar and contact list management features.

The service just recently added GMX OnLine Office which includes an additional 2 GB of free, additional space available for a fee, document storage space and an instance of a GMX branded version of LibreOffice online. GMX removed the About box function from the binary so can't say for sure but it appears to be LibreOffice 6.0.

GMX, like OffiDoc, defaults to OOXML file format for documents created at the site.





Free (no fees or advertisements) commercial cloud hosts

hostiso.hosting (requires signup via NextCloud , includes nextcloud/collabora online [LO 6.0], 3GB document storage)

webo.hosting (requires signup via NextCloud, includes nextcloud/collabora online [LO 6.0], 5GB document storage)

Both hostiso and webo offer full hosting services, managed or shared servers, vps and cloud along with the free arrangement through NextCloud.

For the free offering a basic fully managed NextCloud server with calendar, contact and task management features and a limited user instance of Collabora Online is included. Both include a few additions such as drawing.io for diagrams.