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The reason is because most of the options; owncloud, btsync, seafile and syncthing dosn't upload to a unknown company server. It only shares the files between y
by Foxboron 12y ago
The reason is because most of the options; owncloud, btsync, seafile and syncthing dosn't upload to a unknown company server. It only shares the files between your devices. Its a huge pluss when you think about security. The downside is that a device have to be online to share or update the files.
I use BTSync and to avoid the problem i just upload the files to my server and display them under a subdomain.
http://pub.volpe.pw/pub/fox_gl.jpg http://pub.volpe.pw/pub/fox_gl.jpg
BtSync also offers a phone client, so to mimc the way Dropbox uploads pictures to dropbox was rather simple. I backed up a gallery on my phone and synced it to my server and symlinked it under the pub dir, as BTSync dosn't follow symlinks.
- Joona 12y agoI don't mind uploading them under a subdomain or such, but I really like how easily I can get a public link from Dropbox. How hard was it to set up?
- Foxboron 12y agoOnce i had setup the subdomain it wasnt hard at all really. I only had a problem where nginx couldnt serve the files from my home dir (i preffer to have the syncing folder there), but it was solved quickly with google and SO.
- jve 12y agoI just set up a BTSync server with Pyd.io on top, which I can use to generate URL for my file. No manual copying.