Own your data and enjoy a better experience than cloud without ads and subscription fees
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Ready to take the internet back from Big Tech? Box by Functionland makes YOU the owner of your space in the cloud!
Cloud computing has given us real-time collaboration, backup and sync, sharing, and access to our data from anywhere. It has become a pillar of our life online. But cloud providers don’t run the cloud for free. They demand something in return. That’s why they track our behavior online, sell our info to third parties, and change terms and conditions when it suits them. . . . Some even claim legal ownership of our data!
Most of us find the advantages of cloud services worth the monthly subscription fees. Some of us are even willing to sacrifice privacy or spend time watching ads.
What if there was a better way?
Box is the plug-and-play cloud storage alternative that frees you from reliance on subscription cloud services. It lets you share and collaborate exactly as you do in the cloud, while providing private cloud storage and free, open-source apps.
No tracking. No subscription fees. No kidding!
Big Tech charges you to use its cloud hardware. You rent cloud services by paying with cash, personal data and privacy. Box is different. With Box, YOU are the owner. You can reclaim your privacy. Box is powered by our open-source, peer-to-peer protocols. These protocols form the Fula network: a secure, encrypted network that replaces big tech hardware with individual Box owners.
You get photo storage, automatic backups, and other free-to-use services. Your data is always available, always secure.
Box puts privacy first.
Box is built from the ground up. It was designed to put the power back into YOUR hands. There is no tracking and no ads. Your data is your property, and yours alone. Your photos, files, and data are fully encrypted. Nobody else has a key. Only you can access your data. Only you can share it.
Box stays home. Your data comes with you.
Box is stationary hardware that sits on your desk, syncs with your devices and provides all the advantages you’ve come to expect from cloud services. Anything you choose to store, from cellphone photos to laptop files, are fully encrypted, synced and kept safe within your Box.
Your data is safely backed up on the Fula Network
Your Box connects with other Boxes to form the secure, people-owned Fula network. Box stores your encrypted data and also maintains backups on other Box devices connected to the Fula network. And it gives you seamless data access from anywhere. No matter what, your data is as safe and recoverable as it is in the cloud, only for free. Available on all your devices, accessible from anywhere.
Box provides as much storage as you need.
Cloud storage services typically offer either too little storage or way, way too much at far too high a cost. Box XL comes with 1 terabyte of storage. If you need more, you can expand your Box by plugging in an existing storage device you already own, purchasing a new storage tower, or adding a framework expansion card.
Box apps and services are free forever. For real.
Box’s photo app, Fotos, will be ready to use at launch. Fotos is a polished, forever-free app that provides swift, seamless, easy access to and sharing of your photos from anywhere, across any device.
Box pays for itself.
With the average American household spending at least $243 per year (2021) on internet subscription services, an investment in Box pays for itself within the first twelve months of ownership. When you start using Box, you start saving as much as $24+ per month, and earning $FULA tokens too.
You have immediate access to some of Box’s most popular apps, including Fotos, an app that provides fast, easy access to and sharing of your photos from anywhere, across any device; Box Files, which provides file syncing and storage across all your devices; and Box Password Manager (available shortly after release), which leverages hyper-private encryption to guarantee you seamless access to your passwords from anywhere, on any device.
Box rewards open-source developers.
Box creates a sustainable and monetized ecosystem for open-source developers, UX designers, and content creators. They are empowered—and paid—to build apps that are free for end-users and provide valuable and useful services like remote office, gaming, messaging and collaboration tools. The possibilities are endless . . .
$FULA tokens pay creators…and reward you, too!
Box silently mines $FULA tokens and uses them to reward people for providing resources on the Fula network. When you provide Box resources to others, for example sharing extra storage, you’re rewarded in $FULA tokens for your contribution. When you use Box apps and services, Box quietly compensates the open-source developers, UX designers, content creators and contributors who built them for you. This makes it possible for us to ensure that apps on Box are forever-free, while still reimbursing their creators for maintenance and upgrades. Imagine BitTorrent, but legal and free for everyone.
Box is built to be built on.
Our hardware is also an open-source platform. With a modular plug-and-play design and standardized dimensions, Box lets hardware creators build additional plug-in towers to extend its functionality. Thanks to our modular design, upgrading Box – for example when the new Thunderbolt standard is released – can be accomplished for just a few dollars.
Box is built on energy-efficient architecture.
As little as $15 per year. That’s the projected energy bill for a Box Lite running as a normal storage server for 12 months.
Technical Specifications
Box is powered by Raspberry Pi 4, which consists of a high-performance 64-bit quad-core processor. It offers up to 8 GB of RAM, dual-band 2.4/5.0 GHz wireless LAN, Bluetooth 5.0, Gigabit Ethernet, and USB 3.0. Box has multiple, expandable USB3 ports that serve to extend Box’s functions with more towers, or to enable it to act as a docking station.
Two models are currently available: Box Lite and Box XL, both with silver aluminum casing.
Box Lite
A single tower with a compute module that functions as a hub, allowing users to connect additional devices like an external storage drive. Box Lite also comes with two USBC ports. (Should you need to connect your own storage or purchase additional framework ports.)
Box XL
Box XL comes with a base, grid and two active towers. One tower is the “hub,” which controls connections with the other towers. The second tower, the “left brain,” comes with a processor and 1TB pre-installed. Additional perks of Box XL include:
- Ability to expand your Box with 7 additional towers, letting you add compute towers in the future
- Box XL includes Hub towers that allow users to configure connections between towers through the mobile App
- Hub tower also acts as a docking station to connect different peripherals to a laptop (through the designated USB-C on the tower)
- Box XL’s modular design enables independent hardware creators to build innovative utility towers to expand Box’s functionality
- Our partners are working with Functionland to provide their own mining towers for this form factor, meaning that in the near future Box will be able to mine other tokens in addition to $FULA.
