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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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[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's what I've used and can recommend:

samba - just a network share
Nextcloud - full featured cloud suite (calendar, contacts, etc)
owncloud infinite scale (OCIS) or the Euro fork Open Cloud - the POSIX driver has a flat file structure and still supports users and shared data; OCIS is designed for larger installations, but running on a smaller, single instance totally works too

Since you rejected NextCloud, check out the other two. I'm switching from NextCloud to OCIS right now, and I may end up using OpenCloud if development looks stable.

[-] francisco_1844@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

Have not tried opencloud yet, but one thing that I find interesting is that it doesn't need a DB. Plan to test. Currently have nextcloud and find the installation a bit of a pain.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm liking it so far, but I'm still very much in the testing phase, I don't have any "real" data in it yet.

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