dufs VS Nextcloud

Sounds helpful if you're using Apache. I use dufs (https://github.com/sigoden/dufs) as a lightweight file server.

I'm with you on wishing WebDAV continued its rollout. These days there are great low-drama server-side deployments like https://github.com/sigoden/dufs. It's run relative too - you could habe multiple dufs processes serving up different directories in different ways. But for WebDAV, you can't simply mount that on the client side for every OS that's equally low configutaion. For that reason, I really like sshfs as it can be initiated from the client-side without a lot of config (just a mkdir of the mapped dir), and it's OK most time despite it's lack of speed and multi-day uptime. I'm on a chromebook now and it turns out that Samba is the easiest client-side tech to use for remote file systems. DAv should've been uniquitous.

WebDAV: https://github.com/sigoden/dufs - has an easy way of launching, and on the releases tab downloads for multiple CPUs/OSs. The rust exe can just be executed from the cli without installation via package managers (wget and tar xf) are all you need.

I use sigoden/dufs. Very simple file browser that doubles as a basic http server. Supports upload, download and basic file manipulation. I feel it's utterly underrated.

So sorry. It only has one f. https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

dufs miniserve

My solution for public media distribution is Caddy¹ on Scaleway Stardust². 10gb of storage isn't really enough (someday I will write I/O for the 75gb of free object storage), but offers unmetered 100mbps data transfer for $3/month. I setup a proxy through Caddy to dufs³ to upload files.

Anything worth keeping goes on an external HD, buy a bigger one each year and make another copy. I also upload all irreplaceable video to Youtube as private videos; I recently went through and granted a few people access to the ones they wanted to see.

¹https://caddyserver.com

²https://www.scaleway.com/en/stardust-instances

³https://github.com/sigoden/dufs

It really is hard to leave Gmail when all of your data has been conveniently stored therein. This is one of Google's retention strategies and it is indeed brilliant.

That said, there's a vast number of self-hosted alternatives like Stalwart Mail (email) [1], Immich (images) [2], NextCloud (Google Docs) [3], etc.

[1] https://stalwa.rt

[2] https://immich.app

[3] https://nextcloud.com/

NextCloud - GitHub

Good open source self-hostable alternatives exist! https://nextcloud.com/ (no affiliation, just a longtime happy user) is great for file sharing and even collaborative online document editing.

If you do not want to host your own instance, there are many great providers who will host one for you at a low cost.

See Configuration and syntax changes and Special packages. The latter this time includes changes around NextCloud 23 and Tor Browser prior to 12.5, both of which should be upgraded beforehand.

Link | Demo | Github | License

1. https://nextcloud.com/ https://proton.me/drive https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#fil...

2. Download all data locally then upload elsewhere.

3. https://help.dropbox.com/security/privacy-policy-faq#7.-How-...

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