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Get a self hosted cloud like nextcloud and create accounts for each user. Nextcloud will allow you to expose directories as webdav shares which you can mount on
by sto_hristo 6y ago
Get a self hosted cloud like nextcloud and create accounts for each user. Nextcloud will allow you to expose directories as webdav shares which you can mount on each user's computer. Then just use desktop office suite like libre office to do all work that will be inherently saved online. Users will be able to share their documents freely between each other.
You will never the conveniences of the a paid powerhouse developed by thousands of people over the years, but for next to nothing cost and a little bit of effort you can be just as productive.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoWhat would you say to a simpler system of having Subversion hosted in an office for sharing the docs and LibreOffice to edit them? No cloud, and it takes very little training to use SVN with a gui client.
- sto_hristo 6y agoThis idea sounds viable from my point of view. Whatever OP finds best for their needs.
- aborsy 6y agoI am no expert but Nextcloud requires a bit of set up and maintenance. With the server exposed to the internet, shared folders and multiple users, you have to worry about security if you could be a target. You need more than one server for back up. I would still suggest this approach; just saying it takes a bit of work.
- sto_hristo 6y agoWhile it does take considerable effort to set it up in the beginning, maintenance later on, at least in my case, is next to nothing. Updates happen via single click from the Admin UI and only happen when you invoke them, at your convenience. For security it does allow 2 factor auth and the admin account has all the tools to manage users and query what they have shared. While it's not an enterprise solution... but for their use case, and with the amount of features it offers, i think it's something worth considering even with the non trivial initial setup tax.