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People are still using dropbox in the age of one-click nextclouds in aws, freenas, digitalocean, etc? Interesting.
by pmlnr 6y ago
People are still using dropbox in the age of one-click nextclouds in aws, freenas, digitalocean, etc? Interesting.
- piva00 6y agoAnd we've come full circle from Dropbox's initial announcement post [1] to this post, almost 14 years later. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- bovermyer 6y agoYou know, this could easily be taken in a condescending way. I choose to use <insert name of service provider here> instead of rolling my own because I don't want to deal with the hassle. And before you say "but it's a one-click install! what hassle?" I'll answer you: the hassle is not in launching it, the hassle is in keeping it online and operating well at all times. People always forget about maintenance when they spout these things...
- dreamcompiler 6y agoDropbox is dramatically cheaper per GB than the other cloud storage services, and it doesn't charge bandwidth fees.
- durnygbur 6y ago> nextclouds in aws Now make the owncloud/nextcloud a reliable experience for more than one user, handle updates and occassional migrations, etc.
- PUFFhPhEHo 6y agoFor a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.