The only drawback is that you can't easily share documents to outsiders the way you can with Dropbox link. I switched over and I couldn't be happier with the decision. The last straw was when it dropped support for an older OS I still use on one of my machines. Dropbox lost a lot of my goodwill when it arbitrarily killed its "Public Files" feature without regard for all the link rot. I replaced Dropbox with self-hosted Syncthing about a year ago. It would be good to hear reports on this option as well. Also, in my own opinion, Synology seems to be a runner up. Please report on nextcloud if you have any experience with data hoarding with Nextcloud. Nextcloud seems to be the best candidate. Of course you still need backups, but those could be simple offline backups (no networking or “cloud” feature).
I am concluding that outsourcing this job to big companies (with client side encryption) is the way to go. If you look at the reviews on the App Store on Dropbox and Synology, you will see the point. I have been looking into this and I can’t find a good solution. Securing a self hosted server open to the internet might become a part time jobĪre there reliable, fast, efficient and secure self hosting solutions? The apps and clients with self hosting solutions sometimes are of poor quality, not comparable with the apps and software provided by companies such as Google, Microsoft or Dropbox. There is bandwidth limitation on the server side, impacting the transfer speeds with self hosting relative to the commercial providers
However, there are problems with self hosting: Some providers like synology or QNAP offer apps also. You can build your own NAS using Truenas, Unraid etc or purchase a prebuilt NAS. Has anyone managed to successfully replace these cloud services with a good self hosting solution? It’s fast, reliable, efficient and secure (but not private).
Commercial cloud providers such as Gdrive or Dropbox offer storage space, together with excellent desktop and mobile client apps (at least for the mainstream operating systems).įor example, Dropbox offers apps and clients syncing seamlessly large amounts of data on any mainstream platform.
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