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Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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Post by tecleandor » Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 9:31 AM UTC

zarkov99 wrote: post #319

tecleandor wrote: post #307

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I think Syncthing could be better for those purposes. I use that for synching my homes (config files and essential work files, keys and so on) between my desktop and laptop. I have a copy running in my NAS to always have a copy available, one in my laptop, one in my desktop, and I was thinking about having one in my phone to run only when I'm charging (so I don't kill my battery).

Can you compare Synching and Dropbox? I have been a (paying) Dropbox user for many years but the product is not that good, especially on Linux. I would love a more reliable alternative.

Syncthing is "just" a syncing daemon with a simple status web dashboard.

The pros (at least for me):

- You host/own it

- It's not centralized: every node can sync with the others

- Seems to be fast (the more nodes, the merrier)

The cons:

- Setup is slightly more difficult (you need to share some keys and ips)

- No iOS client (not an issue for me)

- You can't share a folder or file via web link

So it's great for syncing folders between systems, but it doesn't substitute the job that something like Seafile would do (managing permissions, collaboration, web file sharing, fancy web ui...)

There's a bit of info in the faq: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/faq.html

Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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Post by thw0rted » Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 3:59 PM UTC

rsync wrote: post #30

Alupis wrote: post #13

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I have trouble understanding why people go through these hoops. Yeah, I get it, people love their Mac's... but the company that produces them actively undermines your ability to continue using perfectly good hardware past what they feel is "profitable". This leads to huge efforts to hack/reverse the updaters, or alter newer OS versions to trick them into installing, etc. I'd personally jump over to some system that d…

I agree with this. It's why a hackintosh has never appealed to me. However, in this case , the tweak I needed to do to the mac pro was so trivial as to be (essentially) cost-free. No need to alter the installer, etc. It pleases me to be (re)using this machine for over 12 years now - especially given what a triumph of workstation design these mac pros were ...

It probably helps that it sounds like you mostly use it as a dumb terminal. If you had a compute-intensive workload, it would make sense to upgrade, since even a quite powerful 12-year-old desktop is likely outperformed by a current-model smartphone for many types of work.

Re: Interview with CEO of rsync.net: “no firewalls and no routers”

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Post by thw0rted » Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 4:04 PM UTC

cat199 wrote: post #247

gautamcgoel wrote: post #244

The pricing model doesn't make sense to me. Their prices start at $0.025/GB/month, so renting 1TB of storage for a year would cost $300 - at that price, I could just buy my own disks and run ZFS myself. I kinda hoped they could offer lower prices using economies of scale. I checked the prices for Tarsnap, expecting it to be cheaper - it's actually 10x more expensive! Maybe someone can explain what I'm missing.

DIY is way cheaper, true. but for comparison, aws is ~$100/tb/month

For a backup use case, I haven't been able to beat the value of a Microsoft premium-whatever family plan. Routinely on sale for $60/yr, it gets you 1TB of backup plus an Office license for 6 users. Obviously you don't have as much control over it as "bare" cloud storage but it's hard to match the price.