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Can I take a moment to recommend 'OwnCloud'? ( https://owncloud.com https://owncloud.com ) I may be out of the loop, but my experience with it has been great.

Can I take a moment to recommend 'OwnCloud'? ( https://owncloud.com https://owncloud.com ) I may be out of the loop, but my experience with it has been great. It's a (mostly?) open-source, self-hosted DropBox(ish) clone - with a great UI, web browser support as well as native MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS apps. (I figure there's probably some sort of Linux client as well? I'd have no idea.) I'm shocked that Adult Swim isn't using something like this internally to work around this very issue. I'm sure they send copyrighted clips of shit to each other all the time for reference material. They've never run into this issue before? Even once? Lesson learned - depend as little as possible on services you can extremely easy replicate on your own. When my free DropBox storage ran out years ago, I installed OwnCloud and have never even thought about cloud storage since. It 'just works'.

acidburnNSA 4y ago
I use a similar thing called Seafile on "my own" VPS and love it, syncing to local ZFS NAS with autosnapshots and regular-ish offline and "offsite" backups (two big external drives, swapped whenever I visit family a few states over). Self-hosting FTW. I'm sure owncloud and nextcloud are easier and more complete these days so that'd probably be my choice if I were doing it from scratch. I also do self-hosted CalDAV (radicale) for contacts and calendar, and self-hosted email (dovecot/postfix/spamassassin).
neurostimulant 4y ago
NextCloud is a popular fork of OwnCloud by its original developer, and doesn't seem to gate features on their self-hosted version.
- lostgame 4y ago
  Hey, thanks so kindly for bringing that to my attention! I'll probably migrate my system to NextCloud. :)
  - neurostimulant 4y ago
    Also, there is native support for nextcloud in mainstream linux desktop out of the box now (gnome), which covers contacts, calendar and files data.

acidburnNSA 4y ago

I use a similar thing called Seafile on "my own" VPS and love it, syncing to local ZFS NAS with autosnapshots and regular-ish offline and "offsite" backups (two big external drives, swapped whenever I visit family a few states over). Self-hosting FTW. I'm sure owncloud and nextcloud are easier and more complete these days so that'd probably be my choice if I were doing it from scratch. I also do self-hosted CalDAV (radicale) for contacts and calendar, and self-hosted email (dovecot/postfix/spamassassin).

neurostimulant 4y ago

NextCloud is a popular fork of OwnCloud by its original developer, and doesn't seem to gate features on their self-hosted version.

lostgame 4y ago
Hey, thanks so kindly for bringing that to my attention! I'll probably migrate my system to NextCloud. :)
- neurostimulant 4y ago
  Also, there is native support for nextcloud in mainstream linux desktop out of the box now (gnome), which covers contacts, calendar and files data.