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Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by smush »

anderspitman wrote: post #99
smush wrote: post #70

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While I agree Syncthing is about seamlessly syncing files with devices you own, not file sharing as such, it does a good 98% of what this program offers with a more open source background and is completely free. I share files, what, once a year? Syncthing works great for that use case. If I want to share files too big to email, I can stand to upload to Onedrive/Dropbox/an open directory on my web server for that one-…

Oh I wasn't arguing in favor of using this. I doubt I'll ever use non open software for my data again. Just saying I've run into problems trying to use syncthing for sharing files.

No offense intended or taken, you and are I are in complete agreement re: what software should be touching our data.

I believe you when you say you've had problems performing file shares to arbitrary people, my comments were directed only that my use case is somewhat different.

Cheers!

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by nodesocket »

Mathnerd314 wrote: post #58
gramakri wrote: post #16

How is this different from syncthing - https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/ ? I am still trying to figure out

Syncthing is peer-to-peer, Duple is one master + many slaves.

First time I have seen Syncthing. I am currently using Resilio Sync to sync my "Sites" directory across my iMac and MacBook Pro. Resilio seems to work well, but it has not been updated in a long time (running v2.6.3) and sometimes it uses nearly 100% of a single CPU core for no apparent reason for extended periods of time.

How does Syncthing stack up against Resilio?

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by drKarl »

gorbachev wrote: post #79
drKarl wrote: post #41

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I wanted also a small, energy efficient server for CI at home. I was looking at SBCs (Single Board Computers) like Raspberri Pi and now others. Most are ARM based and max out at 2Gb or 4Gb RAM. I ended up buying an Odroid H2, which is x86 and takes up to 32GB RAM. I just received it so haven't put it together yet... also depends what you want to do with it how much you want to spend, I bought 32GB RAM, 1TB nvme and 6…

What kind of enclosure are you using for it? I currently use a server I built inside a Fractal Node 304 case for that same purpose. While compact for a regular PC type server, it's still a little bulky for my liking.

Odroid-H2 Case Type 1

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by necovek »

basch wrote: post #98
zelon88 wrote: post #94

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Really? Because anyone with a PC and an internet connection can assume their own hosting duties without all that. And if they really wanted to make up the geographic shortcomings they can image and encrypt their files and still use Google drive like everyone else. There's your redundancy with privacy. Cloud, to me, just means "someone else's computer."

Cloud is supposed to be where downtime isnt a thing, or isnt really possible (minus dns of course.) Someone elses computer, without failovers, will never be "always up." Someone elses computer is just "hosting." A cloud is a datacenter, not a server. Your own computer available from anywhere on the internet is just "remote access." Cloud has always meant either distributed computing or complexity abstracted away beca…

Hum, my memory of the early days of "cloud" as a term paints a different picture.

You had highly resilient, scalable, backed up, distributed servers before the "cloud": cloud provided all that with an API and instant UI, and made it affordable.

In that sense, "putting my data in the cloud" always makes me giggle, even though I accept how the term has come to be used. What people usually mean with that is that they are using an online file storage service that may or may not be implemented using a cloud infrastructure, but they don't really care.

I mean, why is OpenStack "a private cloud" (or Eucalyptus if you remember that one)? And why wouldn't you be able to do DNS on cloud infrastructure as well (in fact, many do)? FWIW, DNS itself is a prime example of a resilient (virtually no downtime), scalable, distributed service that predates "cloud" by decades.

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by mceachen »

redblacktree wrote: post #66
jbverschoor wrote: post #15

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Long live zerotier

Thanks for the tip. I'd never heard of it. For others like me: https://www.zerotier.com/manual/

Here's their getting started page (not terribly mobile friendly though)

https://zerotier.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/8454145/...

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by basch »

zelon88 wrote: post #100
basch wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloud is supposed to be where downtime isnt a thing, or isnt really possible (minus dns of course.) Someone elses computer, without failovers, will never be "always up." Someone elses computer is just "hosting." A cloud is a datacenter, not a server. Your own computer available from anywhere on the internet is just "remote access." Cloud has always meant either distributed computing or complexity abstracted away beca…

Semantics aside, are you saying that someone with extra compute resources shouldn't put those resources to work to store their personal data to reduce reliance on for-profit third parties? What is your argument here? That people shouldn't be encouraged to do something on their own? That people shouldn't bother reducing their reliance on "freemium" or paid PaaS companies, even if they have the skills/resources to do s…

It's a completely semantical argument. I said the phrase was ridiculous.

I didn't once say anything about the technology or whether it was better to store things yourself. All I said was those other things have their own names and calling them cloud is either misleading or lazy.

And yes, that's exactly what I want you to say, that your home server, despite being remotely accessible, isn't covered under the definition of cloud computing.

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by basch »

necovek wrote: post #104
basch wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloud is supposed to be where downtime isnt a thing, or isnt really possible (minus dns of course.) Someone elses computer, without failovers, will never be "always up." Someone elses computer is just "hosting." A cloud is a datacenter, not a server. Your own computer available from anywhere on the internet is just "remote access." Cloud has always meant either distributed computing or complexity abstracted away beca…

Hum, my memory of the early days of "cloud" as a term paints a different picture. You had highly resilient, scalable, backed up, distributed servers before the "cloud": cloud provided all that with an API and instant UI, and made it affordable. In that sense, "putting my data in the cloud" always makes me giggle, even though I accept how the term has come to be used. What people usually mean with that is that they ar…

What decade are you calling the early days? Early 90s, mid 2000s?

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by o-__-o »

basch wrote: post #107
necovek wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hum, my memory of the early days of "cloud" as a term paints a different picture. You had highly resilient, scalable, backed up, distributed servers before the "cloud": cloud provided all that with an API and instant UI, and made it affordable. In that sense, "putting my data in the cloud" always makes me giggle, even though I accept how the term has come to be used. What people usually mean with that is that they ar…

What decade are you calling the early days? Early 90s, mid 2000s?

Late 80s

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by teleclimber »

KingFelix wrote: post #62
zelon88 wrote: post #45

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You're not wrong about the benefits of the Cloud. Some people make bomb shelters in their basement, some people stockpile canned goods. I stockpile data. I even have an old text only offline copy of the English Wikipedia. My main issues are privacy. I don't want Google peeking into everything I upload for marketing materials. I also don't want to trust a third party company with my kids photos. They can change their…

Great dialogue here, you should turn it into a video with some epic music in the background, and fading images in and out, rock flag and eagle. And host the video on a rasberry pi, at your home, on Peertube I have been enjoying learning about self hosting, Matrix.org has been the next project I am interested in, once I get bored with other current hobby projects. Hosting my own node, that and I am waiting for the Goo…

> waiting for the Google photos clone to get up version 1.0

What is the closest open source alternative to Google photos?

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by tannhaeuser »

mvanbaak wrote: post #85
tannhaeuser wrote: post #75

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Not bad I guess, though I failed to find a decent review telling even what CPU and wattage the thing has, let alone how to run it with Linux. Haven't considered a Mac Mini for the job since mine is so dog-slow I'd rather run CI on my notebook.

Have a look here: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-c...

Seems the new Mac Mini will only run Mac OS or Windows: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/2018-mac-mini-blocks-li...
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