I’ve been wanting to move away from Dropbox for a long while, but I haven’t been able to find a suitable replacement. Dropbox has always been super convenient and has just worked for me.

I’ve tried Tresoit but the low link sharing limits (2gb) and 10gb limit for files is somewhat of a deal breaker for me. I’ve been interested in Proton Drive for a while, but until their mac app is ready it’s unusable for me.

I’ve also tried self-hosting a nextcloud instance (multiple times) but I’ve always just had too many issues with it. It’s been inconsistent in actually backing up files from my mac, I’ve had so many file conflicts, etc. I have a truenas scale server, so if there are other self-hosted methods I should try let me know.

Currently, I’m looking at filen and sync.com, but I’ve heard both have their issues so I’m curious to hear everyones thoughts on them as well.

Thanks!

  • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    I run it myself in a datacenter. I do basically anything and everything I want off my own hardware.

    • hayhay@programming.devOPEnglish
      1·
      8 months ago

      I’m assuming this would cost a fair bit then? Also, what do you use to sync the files from your devices to the servers?

      • Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Yeah, but I own all the hardware so that’s a upside.

        Truenas scale has easy rsync configurations so I do that.