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Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by hiq »

pmlnr wrote: post #18

some other weapons of choice: WordPress - https://wordpress.org/ - because "WordPress is the Kalashnikov of the web." ( https://t.co/QgsYYUFTbo ) Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/ - for distributed file syncing Baikal - http://baikal-server.com/ - for contact & calendar syncing rss2email - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rss2email - because email is stable, solid, and not going anywhere Tox - https://tox.chat/ - p2p, e…

Syncthing is awesome, I don't understand why some people still use bittorrent sync. If you use ownCloud only for file syncing you'd also be better off using Syncthing instead. The developer is also a super nice guy, answering all bug and performance reports on github.

Regarding contact & calendar syncing, I just wish more apps could just use files instead of always setting a new server and reinventing the wheel to sync data. I still have not found a good way to export my calcurse calendar to my Android phone via files only.

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Post by tombrossman »

zaggynl wrote: post #28
tombrossman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've installed and abandoned ownCloud several times, mostly because it is far too heavy for what I need and I had concerns about its security. I also had to set up EncFS on my local machines for client-side encryption of sensitive files because there was no way I was trusting that to ownCloud server-side. It took more work to set up but I have Seafile self-hosted on the smallest DigitalOcean VPS and it works beautifu…

How do you update Seafile? I've found the manual update process to be somewhat unwieldy. (I'm spoiled by package managers)

You update manually via SSH. It's a bit more tedious than a package manager but not too bad. It took me a while to wrap my head around their file layout and how they do things, but I have it figured out now and updating takes a couple minutes. I can have two SSH terminals open on the same machine and by the time the first one completes `apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade` I'm nearly done with the Seafile update. I really don't like adding third-party PPAs so I'll probably stick with this method for a while even if someone manages to package it up.

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Post by xsteadfastx »

Mooty wrote: post #25

Not open source but still very usefull and self hosted : http://plex.tv Ampache is cool but is really heavy for a simple hosting. Plex does movies and tv shows sort too. Place a Transmission / Deluge torrent client behind, you have a true media center, on a little server. Owncloud is cool but very buggy !

A open source alternative to plex would be http://emby.media.

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Post by 746F7475 »

kwhitefoot wrote: post #26
746F7475 wrote: post #3

It's sad that if you want a fast Internet around here you are put behind ISP wide NAT which means you can't host anything from home, so all these "self-hosted" things aren't really self-hosted for me.

Just because it is behind a NAT doesn't mean you can't run a server. You just need to set the router to forward traffic to the server. Then you need a way to find your public IP address and that is easily done by setting up an account on a public dynamic IP server. I don't do this at the moment but I used to run my own mail server that way (I stopped because it is to hard to find someone to relay my mail now).

I talked long and hard with my ISP when they discontinued my "phone" connection and pushed me faster (jump from 8Mb/s to 100Mb/s) connection via TV cable and only way they can deliver me connection where I can expose ports to the Internet is 3G connection (which works around 3-5Mb/s where I live on a good day)

I'm not ISP locked, but no other ISP offers me anything else since: "we don't offer worse service since we can offer you faster connection via TV cable".

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Post by 746F7475 »

Tepix wrote: post #6
746F7475 wrote: post #3

It's sad that if you want a fast Internet around here you are put behind ISP wide NAT which means you can't host anything from home, so all these "self-hosted" things aren't really self-hosted for me.

Consider renting a tiny VPS and use it to tunnel its IPv4 address to your home box. Using tor is another option for some scenarios.

Yeah, but I don't like the idea of having my connection be routed through random VPS providers. I'd have to get a server from a reputable datacenter where only I'd get physical access to the machines.

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Post by 746F7475 »

amelius wrote: post #23
746F7475 wrote: post #3

It's sad that if you want a fast Internet around here you are put behind ISP wide NAT which means you can't host anything from home, so all these "self-hosted" things aren't really self-hosted for me.

Indeed. Although you can still use AWS. But of course, then it is not really "self-hosted" anymore.

I have some (nearly) free AWS instance running irssi for me.
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