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Ask HN: Alternatives to Dropbox?

• theandrewbailey 4y ago
  https://nextcloud.com/ https://nextcloud.com/ https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/
• warrenm 4y ago
  OneDrive Google Drive Nextcloud
• GeboTyr 4y ago
  Google Drive.
• water554 4y ago
  Syncthing is epic!
• PaulHoule 4y ago
  In some cases USB thumb drives, Blu-Ray burners, etc. I've seen people use Dropbox to share files in the same office and physical media is fine with that. It is faster for me to make a Blu-Ray and send it to you by FedEx then upload a 30GB machine learning model over my DSL line.
• sph 4y ago
  I have a Synology NAS and I'm using their Drive app to access all my data everywhere. It can sync like Dropbox, though on my desktop PC I just mount the volume to ~/Documents.
  • pid-1 4y ago
    Is a static IP needed for that?
    • sph 4y ago
      No, Synology has a DynDNS-type thing that can work with dynamic IPs (QuickConnect). Also note that Tailscale has an official Synology package, so you could have your own private mesh VPN to access your data anywhere.
• brtkdotse 4y ago
  You can 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.
• q-base 4y ago
  I moved from Dropbox to Nextcloud hosted on a Hetzner server years ago. Haven't looked back since.
• nathants 4y ago
  cloudflare r2. if your primary use case for dropbox is the same as mine: publicly shareable links to large files.
• a_lifters_life 4y ago
  I like pcloud
• aborsy 4y ago
  There are many alternatives (Synchting, synology, nextcloud, Resilio, etc). The problem is securing the server for access over the internet. Dropbox has a large team of engineers to secure their servers, can you also? Otherwise the experience with Synology Drive was good. It was also faster because the server is nearby.