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Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by edhelas » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 4:37 PM UTC

stephenr wrote: post #20

vincentkriek wrote: post #2

Although 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…

Fully based on XMPP there's also Movim which bring social network features on top of it https://movim.eu/ . P.S.: I'm the author of the project.

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by Vendan » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 4:47 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #67

hiq wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sy…

There are many reasons I prefer Bittorrent Sync over Syncthing: identity based sharing (rather than node linking), good support for situations where you cannot poke holes in a firewall, selective sync support, and encrypted read-only secrets. Moreover, it's much easier to set up, I share stuff with family and they didn't have problems setting it up.

Note that Syncthing just put out relay support, so you don't have to poke holes in firewall if you don't want to, and your data is still secure, as the relay server just relays the encrypted stream. In the (roughly) week since the feature was released, the public relay network has already routed over 2.6 TiB. (I run 2 relay servers on the public pool)

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by sogen » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 4:50 PM UTC

kentonv wrote: post #16

"N self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services" is becoming a meme. Here's 43 self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services, with one-click demos you can try yourself! https://apps.sandstorm.io/ Tiny Tiny RSS, Ghost, Gitlab, and Rocket.Chat are in there. ownCloud is missing, but you can try Davros, which is compatible with the ownCloud client apps. https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/8aspz4sfjnp8u89000mh2v1xrdy…

Sandstorm!

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by newlog » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 4:56 PM UTC

What do you think about the owncloud music app. Nobody has mentioned it but I'm considering it. Any feedback?

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by doctorstupid » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 5:07 PM UTC

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.

Pagekite might work: https://pagekite.net/

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by sytse » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 5:42 PM UTC

_yy wrote: post #85

Another Github alternative: http://phabricator.org/ , better than GitLab, even. Self-hosted WebRTC audio/video conferencing: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

Phabricator has some really neat features, which of those make it better than our GitLab for you?

Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 5:43 PM UTC

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Re: Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

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Post by sytse » Fri, Nov 13, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC

ridruejo wrote: post #8

You can test-drive the apps in Bitnami for 1h for free (click demo in browser) https://bitnami.com/stack/ghost https://bitnami.com/stack/owncloud https://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab https://bitnami.com/stack/tiny-tiny-rss

At GitLab we see that one-click installers are frequently out of date and might not contain our Omnibus packages. The worst example of these are the Bitnami packages that can't be updated at all. We advise to not use one-click installers but instead start an vanilla Ubuntu 14.04 instance and use the recommended Omnibus package installation. This is almost as quick as a one-click install and you're sure of the latest version and easy upgrades. (from https://about.gitlab.com/installation/)