[ale] Best Self-Hosted Cloud Solutions

[Chuck Peters]

dev null zero two said:
> just say NO to webdav!

Would you please explain why you think Webdav isn't worth trying?

> owncloud was pretty good last time I played with it.

I've tried it a couple of times and it breaks everytime I have upgraded 
it. The packaging in Debian and Ubuntu is usually out of date, so you 
might want to try the packages provided by ownCloud at OBS, but last I 
checked the repository wasn't secure with the standard apt GPG 
signatures.  If I remember correctly the ownCloud people claimed it was 
an OBS bug.

I have tried Mailinabox a couple times and it includes ownCloud and 
makes it easier to setup an email server with some popular addons like 
Roundcube... I had some issues with the nameserver nsd crashing, and I 
think it is a IPv6 related bug.  Also the nsd wasn't configured for 
automated DNSSEC KSK key rollovers so I switched over to bind9.  That 
probably would have been an issue when Mailinabox was due for an 
update...

Sharing files publically I just use rsync/scp and Apache running on a 
VPS.  On a few occassions I configured basic password access to a 
directory.  I have also setup IPv6 with SixXS at home, so I can easily 
access anything with ssh.  For more private files, OnionShare [1] looks 
interesting but I haven't tried it...

1. https://onionshare.org/
https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare


Chuck