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Hello! How are folks self-hosting online storage, similar to Google Drive?

Some options I've found:

https://filebrowser.org/ (maintenance-only mode)
https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ (weird disk layout scares me)
https://tinyfilemanager.github.io/ (i like simple!)
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

A bunch more: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#file-transfer---web-based-file-managers

I mainly just need basic file management features. I don't plan to share files outside of my tailscale VPN. I do need to support multiple users though.

I'm not considering Nextcloud because that seems too big. I'm also not considering syncthing for this project because I don't want copies on multiple devices.

I'm currently just using ssh+nautilus and that's worked great for just me, but something similar to Google Drive would be easier to onboard my family.

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[-] JuvenoiaAgent@piefed.ca 3 points 1 year ago

FileBrowser has a fork under development: https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser

I currently use copyparty. It's not the prettiest, but it's fast and the documentation on GitHub is extensive. The maintainer is also very friendly and helpful.

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