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As others have asked, how does it compare with nextCloud ownCloud? And does it have native clients for the usual suspects? Windows/Mac/Mobile...
I tried to install nextcloud once, and it was an exercise in misery.
USB sticks, the alternative to the cloud.
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1: This appears to be backed by a French company called Linagoria. I don't know much about the company, but they've been around for a bit.
2: I experimented with Mongodb for the similar product, and it turned out to be very unreliable. A lot can change since I used Mongodb, but in general, I'm weary of any product that uses it unless there's an expectation that data is lossy.
(Which was the problem Mongodb had at the time: Their CTO only wanted to target lossy data use cases, but the people interested in using Mondodb wanted a database that was easier to use than SQL.)
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I do, password-protected of course. It is the only "native" way I found to get server files access to my iPhone without downloading a third party app (via Files).
I really hope you lock it down to something like Tailscale so that you have a private area network and your Samba share isn’t open to the entire world. Samba is a complicated piece of software built around protocols from the 90s. It’s designed around the old idea of physical network security where it’s isolated on a LAN and has a long long history of serious critical security vulnerabilities (eg here’s an RCE from th…
My solution: Share nothing and use rsync.
If Twake nails those and keeps a sane on prem story with S3 and LDAP, it has a shot. The harder part is trust and docs. Clear threat model. Crisp migration guides from Drive and Dropbox. And a tiny CLI that just works on a headless box. Do these and teams will try it for real work, not just weekend tests.