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Time for another rant, sorry. So how is it different from Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and countless other offerings? At this point I opted for a physical server a

Time for another rant, sorry. So how is it different from Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and countless other offerings? At this point I opted for a physical server at my home, with encrypted cloud backups of important stuff and periodic offsite backups of everything. I have a love-hate relationship with Synology. It is a closed system running some bizarre variant of Linux, but at least they are doing something with a nice interface and nicely pairs with their mobile apps. I wish there was some open-source effort for a home server like this that is equally well-designed, but so far I have not found any, so I am running with this. Hopefully Sandstorm or OwnCloud or someone else will get there at some point! It is very cheap storage, it is connected to the internet, it has some nice phone applications that I can use to access my content, I can run scripts on it to back up data from other services like Instagram, it is available on all of my computers. If I am ever to get sucked into another cloud storage, give me encryption, open source client, mobile apps, connection to other services to backup my content, API access to my data, openness to third parties building connections with your platform and I will chase you to give you my money.

allworknoplay 10y ago
> So how is it different from Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and countless other offerings? It takes your files off of your computer except for an intelligent local cache. It doesn't integrate with your file system. The creators clearly think storing everything locally and syncing copies to the cloud is over. I think a lot of techy people fail to realize exactly how little most people rely on their computers for anything other than web services, and how extensively most people rely on their phones for basically everything. None of the offerings you mentioned are really that great with phones. Based on your use of your own local physical storage server, it's pretty clear that this isn't for you. It isn't for me either. But try putting yourself in someone else's shoes for a change.
- tlogan 10y ago
  I'm actually that "someone else..." so here is my feed back on that. I do not care about "it takes your files off of your computer except for an intelligent local cache." What does it mean for me and my photos? Also, all my photos are uploaded into Dropbox via iPhone anyway...

allworknoplay 10y ago

> So how is it different from Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and countless other offerings? It takes your files off of your computer except for an intelligent local cache. It doesn't integrate with your file system. The creators clearly think storing everything locally and syncing copies to the cloud is over. I think a lot of techy people fail to realize exactly how little most people rely on their computers for anything other than web services, and how extensively most people rely on their phones for basically everything. None of the offerings you mentioned are really that great with phones. Based on your use of your own local physical storage server, it's pretty clear that this isn't for you. It isn't for me either. But try putting yourself in someone else's shoes for a change.

tlogan 10y ago
I'm actually that "someone else..." so here is my feed back on that. I do not care about "it takes your files off of your computer except for an intelligent local cache." What does it mean for me and my photos? Also, all my photos are uploaded into Dropbox via iPhone anyway...