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Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services
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Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services
#72Since no-one has mentioned it yet, I'll throw in my personal favourite RSS reader: Stringer. Dead easy to set up and does away with all the social stuff that I never used in Google Reader
Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services
#73Consider GNU MediaGoblin (http://mediagoblin.org/) as well.
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#74Although this is a nice write up about a possible setup for self hosted alternatives for popular cloud services, I don't like it. It falls short to compare the different possible services and the possibilities you can have with them. OwnCloud is nice, but why should I pick on OwnCloud and not SeaFile. Ampache is cool, but why not Subsonic? I would like to read the reasoning behind the individual choices OR the reason…
My 2 cents re Ampache - it's pretty cool but doesn't play all media types, where as Kodi (XBMC) plays more media types and has a couple of great Android clients (that play locally).. I did get localplay up and running on Ampache but it's less flexible than Kodi Android clients.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Only speaking for myself... OwnCloud - I just don't trust an American company to host my data. Now, is my small UK based host as likely to be as effective at protecting my data as DropBox? Maybe not - but they don't have a proponent of torture on their board, so it's swings and roundabouts. TT-RSS - I couldn't find a decent RSS manager which I liked. TT does the job - and I'm not worried that someone will decide that…
Since you already use ownCloud, you might want to check out the News app: https://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php/News?content=1680... It’s pretty cool, basically like TT-RSS but it looks more modern and is integrated in ownCloud. There are also apps for almost all platforms, like apps for Android & iOS which download all articles (and even podcasts) for offline reading.
Oooh! I've been looking for a good PodCatcher. Thanks.
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The peer-to-peer thing is a problem for me. When I use device A, device B is invariably switched off.
You "just" have to rent some cheap server that is always on. That's the self-hosting part for "asynchronous synching". With that, you do not sent your data to a third-party for the delayed syncing, but you host that peer yourself. If you use syncthing, you could make it also save incremental backups and suddenly you got kinda of an online backup.
With BTSync you can even use encrypted read-only secret on the cloud peer, and it will never see any unencrypted data.
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#77Although this is a nice write up about a possible setup for self hosted alternatives for popular cloud services, I don't like it. It falls short to compare the different possible services and the possibilities you can have with them. OwnCloud is nice, but why should I pick on OwnCloud and not SeaFile. Ampache is cool, but why not Subsonic? I would like to read the reasoning behind the individual choices OR the reason…
> RocketChat I don't know and I should look into but I do feel that XMPP should be the chat replacement for all Agreed. Given that there are multiple, open source servers, several good open source Web clients and literally hundreds of native libraries/clients, XMPP seems like the obvious choice here. What irks me even more - Rocket Chats homepage: > Native client applications available for download on Linux, Windows…
I don't get this. Why does the language it's written in make it "not native"?
Firefox is pretty "native", yet practically all of the UI is powered by JS.
Hell some of the built in programs in windows 10 are using html/js/css and if you are going to argue that the built-in "part of the OS" programs aren't native, then what is?
If you can see performance issues or problems with how it works then point those out, don't just blanket knock an entire application because you don't like the languages it uses.
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#78I keep a list of self-hosted application over at https://github.com/victorhaggqvist/selfhosted . Feel free to contribute if you think there is something missing.
And another list: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud
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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.
But routing the connection through your ISP is fine? It sounds like you're making things harder for yourself than strictly necessary.
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#80Not 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 !
Plex hadn't worked for me when I tried it out of curiosity some years ago. Some devices worked, some had failed to discover it at all. IIRC, the network was fine and it seemed like some issue with their DLNA/SSDP implementation but I haven't bothered to debug proprietary software. Installed MediaTomb and it worked reliably nearly out-of-the-box.