BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by ingve » Tue, May 12, 2015, 5:02 PM UTC

Re: BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by sesutton » Tue, May 12, 2015, 7:07 PM UTC

One downside of BTS is that for most consumer internet connections download is much faster than upload. Once you get your file to dropbox you can download it on all your other devices at your much faster download rate.

Re: BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by hobarrera » Tue, May 12, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

Syncthing is an interesting contender too.

http://syncthing.net/

Open source, open standard, end-to-end transmission, and the server only does peer-matching (and you manage your own server if you're truly paranoid).

Re: BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by makalumhenders » Tue, May 12, 2015, 8:15 PM UTC

sesutton wrote: post #2

One downside of BTS is that for most consumer internet connections download is much faster than upload. Once you get your file to dropbox you can download it on all your other devices at your much faster download rate.

I guess you didn't read the part of the article about over-the-LAN syncing.

Re: BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by jszymborski » Tue, May 12, 2015, 9:10 PM UTC

hobarrera wrote: post #3

Syncthing is an interesting contender too. http://syncthing.net/ Open source, open standard, end-to-end transmission, and the server only does peer-matching (and you manage your own server if you're truly paranoid).

I've had success with OwnCloud as an opensource replacement for Dropbox. Buy a VPS from DigitalOcean or RamNode, and you get a more libre and cheaper Dropbox that you can control at all levels.

Re: BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by wodenokoto » Wed, May 13, 2015, 2:26 AM UTC

So he goes from dropbox to 3 different paid services (bts, crash plan, iPhoto) and only compares the price to one of them and says he is saving a lot of money and hassle?

Re: BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by tolle » Wed, May 13, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

jszymborski wrote: post #5

hobarrera wrote: post #3

Syncthing is an interesting contender too. http://syncthing.net/ Open source, open standard, end-to-end transmission, and the server only does peer-matching (and you manage your own server if you're truly paranoid).

I've had success with OwnCloud as an opensource replacement for Dropbox. Buy a VPS from DigitalOcean or RamNode, and you get a more libre and cheaper Dropbox that you can control at all levels.

However. The privacy level is around the same as on Dropbox. Your hosting company can read your files. And the average Joe probably does a worse job securing his VPS then Dropbox does at securing theirs.

Re: BitTorrent Sync vs. Dropbox

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Post by hobarrera » Wed, May 20, 2015, 6:54 PM UTC

jszymborski wrote: post #5

hobarrera wrote: post #3

Syncthing is an interesting contender too. http://syncthing.net/ Open source, open standard, end-to-end transmission, and the server only does peer-matching (and you manage your own server if you're truly paranoid).

I've had success with OwnCloud as an opensource replacement for Dropbox. Buy a VPS from DigitalOcean or RamNode, and you get a more libre and cheaper Dropbox that you can control at all levels.

OwnCloud is really aimed at small companies or tech users. Average Joe can't really set up his own OwnCloud instance. Way too technical.