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If there was a company providing Syncthing-as-a-service I would very much sign up. I want the power of Syncthing (or similar) without the hassle of running a se

If there was a company providing Syncthing-as-a-service I would very much sign up. I want the power of Syncthing (or similar) without the hassle of running a server myself.

iansinnott 4y ago
Not sure about syncthing, but you can get hosted nextcloud as a service which provdies many (all?) of the syncing beefits in my experience.
memen 4y ago
Syncthing does not require a server. Syncthing is itself the server. The application (on either platform you want) connects directly to another device (i.e. peer to peer or P2P) and sends/receives the folders and files as you setup. A syncthing server is used for discovery only, which is a free service.
- rsync 4y ago
  Ok but each “peer” needs to have syncthing installed, correct ? That is, you can’t just point syncthing to any old sftp endpoint… I think your parent means “the commercial endpoint” when he says “server” …
  - Macha 4y ago
    What is "the commercial endpoint"? There's no commercial offering of Syncthing. Every peer needs to have syncthing installed, yes. This is how syncthing works. It's P2P (though there is the public relay servers for NATed peers). Even if you ran your own relay network, every peer would need Syncthing installed. What some users might want is an always-on node, so that device A could push to that always-on node and then device B could later download it without requiring device A and device B to be online at the same time, but what that node is, is really just a device C that's always on. I think you're picturing Syncthing as being like a centralised file host that offers a client to sync to/from it, or maybe like something like Borg or restic. It's not that, there's no master node or central repo or anything.
    - rsync 4y ago
      Your grandparent was asking about a commercial syncthing as a service - see upthread …
    - na85 4y ago
      Good grief. It's blatantly obvious that what's being discussed is "always online 3rd syncthing peer as a service".
- stavros 4y ago
  All of the above is true, but I want to note that the GP might want to run a "server" (in reality, a third node) so he doesn't have to keep other devices online all the time. I use my NAS for this, that way I don't need to keep my desktop turned on for my laptop to sync to it.
daedalus_j 4y ago
This may become possible using the new Untrusted Device feature, allowing you to have a SyncThing client somewhere that hosts but cannot access your files. (https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html) I use this feature with a friend of mine. We both have NAS', and we both have each other's NAS as an untrusted SyncThing device. (It's also pretty trivial to run a Linode/DigitalOcean low end VPS as an untrusted client. In fact if neither has a one-click install I'd be surprised.)
- hrdwdmrbl 4y ago
  Yo that would be perfect. All the advantage of the cloud without the privacy concerns.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Syncthing is P2P, you're not meant to run it on a server in the cloud. You run it on each device like your laptops, your NAS, your desktop computers, etc. and it will connect each of them together P2P to share files. You can of course run a server in the cloud that is always on and sharing your files but it's not the primary or required way to use syncthing.
jiggunjer 4y ago
Doesn't MEGA do something similar? Don't know what OS support it has though.

If there was a company providing Syncthing-as-a-service I would very much sign up. I want the power of Syncthing (or similar) without the hassle of running a server myself.

iansinnott 4y ago

Not sure about syncthing, but you can get hosted nextcloud as a service which provdies many (all?) of the syncing beefits in my experience.

memen 4y ago

Syncthing does not require a server. Syncthing is itself the server. The application (on either platform you want) connects directly to another device (i.e. peer to peer or P2P) and sends/receives the folders and files as you setup. A syncthing server is used for discovery only, which is a free service.

rsync 4y ago
Ok but each “peer” needs to have syncthing installed, correct ? That is, you can’t just point syncthing to any old sftp endpoint… I think your parent means “the commercial endpoint” when he says “server” …
- Macha 4y ago
  What is "the commercial endpoint"? There's no commercial offering of Syncthing. Every peer needs to have syncthing installed, yes. This is how syncthing works. It's P2P (though there is the public relay servers for NATed peers). Even if you ran your own relay network, every peer would need Syncthing installed. What some users might want is an always-on node, so that device A could push to that always-on node and then device B could later download it without requiring device A and device B to be online at the same time, but what that node is, is really just a device C that's always on. I think you're picturing Syncthing as being like a centralised file host that offers a client to sync to/from it, or maybe like something like Borg or restic. It's not that, there's no master node or central repo or anything.
  - rsync 4y ago
    Your grandparent was asking about a commercial syncthing as a service - see upthread …
  - na85 4y ago
    Good grief. It's blatantly obvious that what's being discussed is "always online 3rd syncthing peer as a service".
stavros 4y ago
All of the above is true, but I want to note that the GP might want to run a "server" (in reality, a third node) so he doesn't have to keep other devices online all the time. I use my NAS for this, that way I don't need to keep my desktop turned on for my laptop to sync to it.

daedalus_j 4y ago

This may become possible using the new Untrusted Device feature, allowing you to have a SyncThing client somewhere that hosts but cannot access your files. (https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html https://docs.syncthing.net/users/untrusted.html) I use this feature with a friend of mine. We both have NAS', and we both have each other's NAS as an untrusted SyncThing device. (It's also pretty trivial to run a Linode/DigitalOcean low end VPS as an untrusted client. In fact if neither has a one-click install I'd be surprised.)

hrdwdmrbl 4y ago
Yo that would be perfect. All the advantage of the cloud without the privacy concerns.

qbasic_forever 4y ago

Syncthing is P2P, you're not meant to run it on a server in the cloud. You run it on each device like your laptops, your NAS, your desktop computers, etc. and it will connect each of them together P2P to share files. You can of course run a server in the cloud that is always on and sharing your files but it's not the primary or required way to use syncthing.

jiggunjer 4y ago

Doesn't MEGA do something similar? Don't know what OS support it has though.