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This is exciting. Alternatives currently are things like Dropbox (proprietary and somewhat pricy) and TorrentSync (proprietary). I look forward to firing this t

This is exciting. Alternatives currently are things like Dropbox (proprietary and somewhat pricy) and TorrentSync (proprietary). I look forward to firing this thing up on my own server and have a private remote file storage. I do currently run a NAS but without a VPN connection home it's not as useful.

rocky1138 11y ago
Actually, an excellent FOSS alternative is Syncthing. https://github.com/syncthing https://github.com/syncthing
pwnna 11y ago
There's also Seafile, which I've been using for a quite a while now and really impressed by.
- dochtman 11y ago
  I tried to package and run Seafile, but it was kind of complex, and under-documented. Also, the first time I got it to run on my server, it ran my Linux server into the ground (IIRC it kept the CPU so busy that I couldn't do anything through SSH -- had to reboot the server to get back in). I also got the impression the open source community isn't that active -- i.e., it's mostly maintained by the commercial backers (some Chinese company, I think). On the other hand, Syncthing is a clear demonstration where deploying Go code is dead easy, although I really don't like Go's packaging all that much. The one thing I still want from Syncthing is a way to have client-side encryption, e.g. have remote storage with zero knowledge of the actual data I'm storing.
  - pwnna 11y ago
    What specific trouble do you have with it? I have it setup on a server with a semi reasonable deployment/update mechanism managed through fabric and ansible. I understand the setup was crappy (you have to leverage their script), but I believe Debian is looking at packaging it so maybe in the future that flow will be better.
chmike 11y ago
Or owncloud which has clients iOS and Android.