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I wonder how this differs from AeroFS (YC S10). ...I also wonder what the heck Yuri and co. have been up to for the past few months. Things have been awful qui

I wonder how this differs from AeroFS (YC S10). ...I also wonder what the heck Yuri and co. have been up to for the past few months. Things have been awful quiet over there.

eps 14y ago
At the very least Cubby benefits from a mature infrastructure that LogMeIn sits on. From what I've read they have numerous geo-balanced (akamized) data enters, each with multiple levels of redundancy and overlay routing, i.e. the whole nine yards. Also being a publicly traded company makes them more accountable and well-behaved. On the other hand AeroFS appears to be an extension of an offline/LAN utility to the cloud, whereby Cubby is the other way around. They had the client-server setup with p2p connectivity and extended it to the LAN context.
- yurisagalov 14y ago
  AeroFS treats the cloud as just another peer. You can use it, if you want, or you can just use your own devices. Heck, you could install AeroFS on an AWS box backed by S3FS[1] or equivalent and have your own private cloud :) [1] http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/
yurisagalov 14y ago
Yeah, you are of course (and unfortunately) right - we've been eerily quiet as of late. The short of it is: We've been quietly working on a major overhaul of many internal components (improvements to the networking stack, syncing stack, and the way sharing is done). Unfortunately some of the changes are so fundamental that we're not able to do our usual continuous deployment and push the changes incrementally. Instead, we'll be having a major release sometime in the (near? :) future which should provide dramatic improvements. We've been using the new client internally for a few weeks now and so far we love it. I hope you do too (I know, I know, once it's out!) I usually try and engage actively with the community, but for the past few months I've also been very busy recruiting and building out our team (http://www.aerofs.com/careers.pdf http://www.aerofs.com/careers.pdf -- we are still hiring!), so my own communication with the external world has been limited. We're working on addressing this as well :)
- knes 14y ago
  Loved the idea of aeroFS but it was too slow & buggy to use compare to a solution like Dropbox in my case. But I'll make sure to try the new version when it comes out!

I wonder how this differs from AeroFS (YC S10). ...I also wonder what the heck Yuri and co. have been up to for the past few months. Things have been awful quiet over there.

eps 14y ago

At the very least Cubby benefits from a mature infrastructure that LogMeIn sits on. From what I've read they have numerous geo-balanced (akamized) data enters, each with multiple levels of redundancy and overlay routing, i.e. the whole nine yards. Also being a publicly traded company makes them more accountable and well-behaved. On the other hand AeroFS appears to be an extension of an offline/LAN utility to the cloud, whereby Cubby is the other way around. They had the client-server setup with p2p connectivity and extended it to the LAN context.

yurisagalov 14y ago
AeroFS treats the cloud as just another peer. You can use it, if you want, or you can just use your own devices. Heck, you could install AeroFS on an AWS box backed by S3FS[1] or equivalent and have your own private cloud :) [1] http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/

yurisagalov 14y ago

Yeah, you are of course (and unfortunately) right - we've been eerily quiet as of late. The short of it is: We've been quietly working on a major overhaul of many internal components (improvements to the networking stack, syncing stack, and the way sharing is done). Unfortunately some of the changes are so fundamental that we're not able to do our usual continuous deployment and push the changes incrementally. Instead, we'll be having a major release sometime in the (near? :) future which should provide dramatic improvements. We've been using the new client internally for a few weeks now and so far we love it. I hope you do too (I know, I know, once it's out!) I usually try and engage actively with the community, but for the past few months I've also been very busy recruiting and building out our team (http://www.aerofs.com/careers.pdf http://www.aerofs.com/careers.pdf -- we are still hiring!), so my own communication with the external world has been limited. We're working on addressing this as well :)

knes 14y ago
Loved the idea of aeroFS but it was too slow & buggy to use compare to a solution like Dropbox in my case. But I'll make sure to try the new version when it comes out!