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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by jongjong »

zplizzi wrote: post #64
KomoD wrote: post #50

These guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project. https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...

(author here) I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but also these sorts of requests feel premature for a project like ours that doesn't yet have a sizeable user base.

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Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by cindyllm »

jongjong wrote: post #111
zplizzi wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(author here) I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but also these sorts of requests feel premature for a project like ours that doesn't yet have a sizeable user base.

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Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by Panzerschrek »

Making self-hosting really accessible isn't that easy, even if it's easy to setup the server machine itself. One needs to make their server machine accessible to everyone, which isn't generally possible due to how networks work, one needs a white IP address and making sure no incoming connections are rejected by the internet provider. Also one needs a domain. Obtaining it requires some bureaucratic burden, costs money and pricing isn't always transparent.

These barriers are high enough, so that common people can't create/host their own sites. Only skilled enthusiasts or professionals can afford having their own site.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by claytongulick »

epihelix wrote: post #93
m-p-3 wrote: post #77

> nextcloud: slow and unreliable, and more enterprise-targeted now bewcloud could be a lean alternative for home users if that's something you'd like to offer.

Has anyone else found NextCloud to be slow and unreliable? I've been using it for the last three years (switching over from OwnCloud before that), and it's never missed a beat. Straightforward to set up, decent linux desktop clients, has mobile support that's also been rock-solid, and basically does what it says on the tin. Doesn't feel remotely enterprise targeted to me either -- it feels very much targeted towards…

Thanks for bringing this up, I was going to ask the same.

I haven't heard any complaints about NextCloud, they've added some enterprise features, but all in a positive way, from what I can tell, not detracting from home and personal use.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by hypfer »

jongjong wrote: post #111
zplizzi wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(author here) I'm checking with my team to confirm these came from us, but if so I apologize for this - posts like these should come from a real account with proper disclosure, but also these sorts of requests feel premature for a project like ours that doesn't yet have a sizeable user base.

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Because "perfectly legal" and "socially acceptable" often diverge quite a bit.

The world would be quite miserable if "perfectly legal" would be what everyone optimizes for.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by diggernet »

mrtesthah wrote: post #101
noman-land wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The general public will do whatever their friends do. If there was an iPhone charger sized box they could plug in anywhere and have their own personal cloud that can interconnect with other personal clouds, and a celebrity said it was cool to have one, the general public will do it without giving it a first thought.

You mean like this? https://freedombox.org/ It’s been around since 2010.

Why didn't you tell me about this years ago?

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by globular-toast »

KomoD wrote: post #50

These guys have been spamming issues in repos trying to promote this project and no disclosure whatsoever that they are associated with the project. https://github.com/search?q=%22cloudinabottle.toml%22&type=i...

The person doing this doesn't understand how pull requests work. The issues all say "I have a version in my fork". Open a pull request then! That's the whole point of forks on GitHub. Creating an issue first is pointless spamming akin to the classic "asking to ask". Just seems completely out of touch with open source to me.

Re: Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone

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Post by harhargange »

I recently bought a motherboard for my first self made pc. Six to eight sata slots is already enormous and the fact that you pay once and use your hardware freely opened my eyes. I was paying a subscription for cloud 1 tb for a trivial service. I am now hoarding my torrents worry free and plan to convert it to NAS. However i do still use my onedrive plan shared with three friends for 10 dollars for sharing large files till i set up my own nas with a good permanent net connection. The other issue is that I’m renting currently and if I’m changing countries I’ll have to rely on the onedrive again
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