New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Have any of you switched away from Dropbox?
Ask HN: Have any of you switched away from Dropbox?
6 by barbequeer | 9 comments on Hacker News.
I am a long time dropbox free user, and I find it very useful, but I have more than three devices. I don't want to shell out for a pro account because 120 a year just seems too much to pay for syncing things between devices, and I'm a tightwad on a budget. I've tried various combinations of syncthing, github, owncloud, nextcloud etc, on private servers and raspberry pis in my home. I work from home and dont really care about having access to stuff away from home - its really more about syncing between various family laptops and across different OSes. I'm not talking enormous amounts of data - I have 15GB storage on dropbox from when they did various promotions years ago, and I have not hit the limit yet. I mainly just sync around important docs, scripts, config files, source code for things, handy files, the odd photo or thing I want to move from one to another. has anyone found a good free alternative that actually works well? Was it one of the above ones I mentioned? if so, what were the teething problems? am I missing a really obvious alternative?
6 by barbequeer | 9 comments on Hacker News.
I am a long time dropbox free user, and I find it very useful, but I have more than three devices. I don't want to shell out for a pro account because 120 a year just seems too much to pay for syncing things between devices, and I'm a tightwad on a budget. I've tried various combinations of syncthing, github, owncloud, nextcloud etc, on private servers and raspberry pis in my home. I work from home and dont really care about having access to stuff away from home - its really more about syncing between various family laptops and across different OSes. I'm not talking enormous amounts of data - I have 15GB storage on dropbox from when they did various promotions years ago, and I have not hit the limit yet. I mainly just sync around important docs, scripts, config files, source code for things, handy files, the odd photo or thing I want to move from one to another. has anyone found a good free alternative that actually works well? Was it one of the above ones I mentioned? if so, what were the teething problems? am I missing a really obvious alternative?
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