Jérôme Cartegini December 02, 2021 at 12:0210 p.m.

Levia is a French cloud storage service that presents itself as an ecological and independent alternative to American giants.After the final stop of Hubic, it is now the only French cloud service offering consumer offers.It is distinguished by solid guarantees of confidentiality and security with infogenous servers based exclusively in France.

Since Ovh put an end to its service in 2018, there was no longer any French player positioned on this market.Levia therefore had a free field to design an online data storage offer "Made in France". Créée en octobre 2020, l’entreprise se dit engagée en faveur de la défense de l’environnement et assure compenser 200% de ses émissions de CO₂ en finançant des programmes de plantation d’arbres.Independent, it ensures that data is protected by a high level of security and stored exclusively in France.Overview.

Levia: Infrastructure and Security

Levia plays the transparency card by clearly indicating where the data of its customers are hosted.The supplier uses the servers of the French ovhcloud giant.All data from its customers is systematically replicated in three datacenters based in France.This replication allows Levia to guarantee users that their data will always be available even if a problem arises in one of the datacenters or on a server.The supplier saves the data each evening at 2 a.m..

Apart from the servers rented in OVHCLOUD, Levia takes care of everything else with her own teams and the automation of tasks.The supplier does not use any other provider to manage servers, storage, operating system, users, security, backup or replication of data.Thanks to this, Levia enjoys an almost total autonomy and manages to offer rates (between 2 and 20 €/month) as competitive, if not more, as those of the US giants of the Cloud.

In a particularly energy -consuming cloud sector, the company is committed to fighting for environmental protection by adopting sustainable IT procedures.Level security, Levia systematically back up data at least twice in three data center.The files are encrypted by default side servers in AES-256 and during their transfer (SSL/TLS-HTTPS).

In order not to harm the features of sharing prized by professional customers, Levia does not offer a safety system of end such as Mega fact, for example.On the other hand, customers who wish can activate end -to -end encryption (customer side) with compatible applications including certain NAS or FTP customers.A regret: the service does not have a safe system, like Icedrive.All accounts are computer science, that is to say that the storage service pares guarantee that even in the event of bugs, no customers could never access the data of another customer.

Levia also offers a double -factor authentication system.Once this connection mode has been activated, you have to generate a token used to connect to the service.Faced with actors of the American cloud, Levia has made confidentiality one of her main battle horses.The company guarantees in its privacy policy that no personal or given information of its customers can be published, exchanged, transferred, assigned or sold on any medium to third parties.In accordance with the law, only the connection logs are preserved.An argument that contributes to the growing success of the young French shoot.

Levia: Main features

Levia offers customers for Windows, MacOS and Linux, as well as mobile applications for Android and iOS.The online storage service has a refined modern web interface that does not have much to envy those of the tenors on the market.Although less rich in functionality than Dropbox, Google Drive or Pcloud, the service is far from demerit.It has in particular the Onlyoffice online edition suite which presents itself as a real alternative to Office 365 or Google Workspace.Compatible with the Microsoft Office suite and most common formats, it allows you to create and share online documents in real time with other users.

It is possible to collaborate on online projects, to see what other stakeholders do, to add comments or to consult the history of each file.The content sharing options are not outdone: just click a right click on a file and select "Share the file" or click on the three small triangle -shaped points on the right of the screen, then enter one or more email addresses in the window that opens, or to generate a sharing link.Whatever account type, users have the possibility of defining if the recipient can consult, modify or download the file.

By clicking on "Hide the download" in the properties of sharing links, the person who receives the link can file files (without size limits) in the folder without having access to its content.A very practical file transfer solution, especially for professionals who need to transmit data even if they do not have a Levia account.For each public sharing link, it is also possible to establish a password or an expiration date and send them by email or via a social network.

All sharing options are accessible via the web interface and the mobile or office application.Levia is one of the only players in the cloud to allow its customers to use its white brand service and in particular insert their own logo and URL.In addition to the preview of the files, the service incorporates an audio player, but ignores a video player: you will have to download the videos locally to view them.

Special mention for the mobile, fluid and complete application.In particular, it has the highly appreciated automatic remote of the photos and videos stored and taken via mobile terminals (Android and iOS).For the time being, the service does not offer the versioning of the files.It nevertheless has a very practical calendar server as well as a Kanban table to facilitate the organization of projects in business.

Levia: backup and synchronization

In use, the operation of Levia is very close to that of Dropbox.It is possible to save folders or files by sliding them/depositing directly on the web interface.The office client (Windows, MacOS and Linux) also makes it possible to synchronize the local files of their choice on the cloud and vice versa.The service creates one or more synchronization files accessible locally via the file explorer.All data added locally in the folder is automatically synchronized on the cloud and replicated identically on all connected devices.

The office client offers the possibility of saving any storage folder or support.Thanks to intelligent synchronization, data can be accessible locally, but stored only on the cloud.Like Dropbox, the service makes it possible to download only local file metadata in order to preserve the storage space used.Similarly, Levia has a synchronization mode in the blocks to download only the modifications made to the files already stored on the cloud.Practical not to have to retelulate all of the very large files without stopping.

Compatible with the webdav protocol, the service makes it possible to synchronize all the files stored on Synology, Qnap and soon Western digital on the cloud.The young French shoot has developed another interesting function called "Data Migration" to migrate in one click the content stored on the Competitors Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive services.Unlike PCloud or Google Drive, Levia does not offer a computer backup system.

Given her young age, Levia ensures the least honorable performance.During our tests, it took us 1.13 minute to download a 1.50 GB file on the cloud.A speed slightly lower than that of Dropbox (1.05 minute), but greater than Mega (1.38 min) and OneDrive (1.23 min).For comparison under the same conditions, Google Drive and Pcloud download the 1.50 GB file respectively to their servers in 46 and 59 seconds.

Levia's offers

Whether for individuals, businesses or administrations, Levia's plans are among the most attractive on the market.All offers are without commitment, but we regret that there is no free access offer to try the service.In total, the supplier offers 5 packages, including a "pro" with adaptive storage on demand.

Levia's prices are always a little lower than those of competition, but with a storage space sometimes less important.The entry ticket at € 1.80/month per 100 GB is for example less attractive than that of Icedrive which offers 250 GB for € 1.83/month.Offers at € 4.50/month for 1 TB and € 9/month for 2 TBs prove to be particularly well positioned.Most competitors indeed offer a plan of 2 TB at 10 €/month.The medium plan at 18 €/month for 5 TB is still competed by that of Icedrive (15 €/month for 5 TB) or that of KDRIVE (€ 19.98/month) which has the advantage of being expandable.For French customers, Levia nevertheless has particularly interesting arguments to assert in terms of confidentiality and data security.

Levia reviews: Should we fall for the French cloud storage service?

In a field as sensitive and strategic as that of the Cloud, it was finally time that a French service worthy of the name emerges.The success of Levia was not long in coming: in July 2021, less than a year after its launch, the company was able to announce that it was already profitable.Faced with American behemoths and the Swiss and Welsh young shoots, the bet was not won in advance.

Apart from a latency time observed when launching the calendar server (a problem that should soon be corrected), the service does not suffer from any bug and operates as a clock via its web interface and its office and mobile customers.The service already has most of the features most popular with users, without forgetting in terms of incremental synchronization and at the level of the blocks that many much older competing players do not offer.Levia also has some safety assets with data systematically replicated in three data center based in France.

The company prides itself on having lost any data from its customers when an OVH data center was ravaged by a fire in March 2021.A life -size crash for this new French nugget, which promises to continue to evolve over time.

Levia

Compatible with all current bones, Levia ensures a high level of security and confidentiality with infogrient servers based in France.In addition to leading synchronization technologies, it competes with market tenors in terms of stability and performance.The service gives pride of place to collaboration with the Office Office suite Onlyoffice and a wide range of data sharing and transfer tools.A promising solution offered at very attractive prices.

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