Self-Hosted Dropbox Alternatives

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Post by swedtrue » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 4:03 PM UTC

Self-Hosted Dropbox Alternatives
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Re: Self-Hosted Dropbox Alternatives

#2

Post by swedtrue » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 4:29 PM UTC

Adding to this this project currently in beta, a simple self-hosted private Dropbox with E2EE: https://www.duple.io/en/

Re: Self-Hosted Dropbox Alternatives

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Post by rbritton » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 4:37 PM UTC

A Synology NAS + Synology Drive has replaced Dropbox for me. Drive isn’t quite as polished, but I have effectively unlimited space, and it’s more private.

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Post by doomrobo » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 4:43 PM UTC

Is there anything that has a client for Linux, Mac, and iOS? Not just a website, but a dedicated app.

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Post by Iolaum » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 4:52 PM UTC

If you want to try nextcloud use the nextcloudpi project. It takes care of everything you need to set it up.

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Post by benologist » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

rbritton wrote: post #3

A Synology NAS + Synology Drive has replaced Dropbox for me. Drive isn’t quite as polished, but I have effectively unlimited space, and it’s more private.

This also turned out to be a good alternative for me, although I kept Dropbox and had my Synology backing up everything to it so clients use Drive to sync to NAS then NAS to Dropbox.

Then my NAS died very prematurely, rather than buy another proprietary piece of hardware from Synology I muddled through setting up DSM in VirtualBox on a more powerful machine with xpenology. Using their operating system in a virtual machine lets you use their mobile apps too, about the only thing you can't do is use their QuickConnect service but there are other dynamic-dns services you can use in its place.

https://xpenology.com/forum/topic/13834-virtualbox-dsm-62-ds...

Re: Self-Hosted Dropbox Alternatives

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Post by butz » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:17 PM UTC

doomrobo wrote: post #4

Is there anything that has a client for Linux, Mac, and iOS? Not just a website, but a dedicated app.

NextCloud has desktop clients and mobile apps: https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients . ownCloud has them too: https://owncloud.com/download/#desktop-clients

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Post by butz » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

What about not fully Dropbox alternatives, but simple solutions to have a backup of files online and sync those files with different computers?

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Post by orev » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:18 PM UTC

Syncthing is fantastic, and is mostly private. With a little effort, you can make it completely private by setting up your own discovery and relay server (though the docs on how to do that could really be improved).

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Post by joshmn » Sat, Nov 02, 2019, 5:32 PM UTC

rbritton wrote: post #3

A Synology NAS + Synology Drive has replaced Dropbox for me. Drive isn’t quite as polished, but I have effectively unlimited space, and it’s more private.

Also love my Synology NAS. I can connect my external services to it (Dropbox, Box, etc.) and wire those in as well. They make it painless and super trivial.