[ale] Best Self-Hosted Cloud Solutions

[Raj Wurttemberg]

I know this might go against the grain a little but I ended up going with a Western Digital MyCloud drive.  It backs up all the computers in my house, backs up my phone (Android), has a phone app, supports ftp, supports ssh, supports rsync, can back itself up (snapshot) to another daisy-chained drive.

 

Overall I’m very happy with it.

 

/Raj

 

 

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Vernard Martin
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 11:11 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] Best Self-Hosted Cloud Solutions

 

As of late, I've been adding up the list of all of my cloud storage solutions and its getting out of hand:

Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Box... and a few other minor ones that I don't really use that much.

 

In any event, I'm thinking its time to host my own services so that I can have a bit more control and tailor the services to exactly what I need. I'm currently using Comcast residential service with  their Arista cable modem for 50Mb down/10Mb up and 300GB of data a month. 

 

What software and what techical issues do you run into when using Comcast networking 

 

I've heard of owncloud and fiddled with it a year or so ago. It was moderately nice but not a full replacement

I've heard of Paperwork to replace Evernote but its not very polished yet.

I've heard some folks use WebDAV to do all of it and just push raw data around.

I've briefly used OpenFiler and FreeNas for home nas duties but they appear to have plugins to handle cloud stuff too.

 

What solutions do YOU use and how much difficulty have you had hosting it?

 

I figured that the ALE group probably has already done this a few times in the past and this was the best place to look.  

 

Vernard

 

 

 

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