Re: [PLUG] Personal Cloud Server

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Also it goes without saying that you could just use a service like
Dropbox or Google Drive to accomplish this. I take it you don't want
to use them?

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 09:58:55PM -0400, Jonathen Landis via plug wrote:
> I would highly recommend OwnCloud <https://owncloud.org/> or NextCloud
> <https://nextcloud.com/> for this. They're open source projects which
> essentially give you a self-hosted file server similar to Google Drive,
> Box, Dropbox, etc. They even support real-time collaboration and federation
> between other users so you could share files among them.
> 
> Like Will said, will simply need to port forward and use dynamic dns to get
> to it.
> 
> ~Jon L.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 7:33 PM Will via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Dynamic dns to a port forward on your router to an ARM board hooked up to
> > a drive doc. Works great for me for over half a decade.
> >
> > -Will
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 17:50 MailList via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like to be able to access my files (which are stored on a
> >> server in my basement) globally.
> >>
> >> I've been using the shared files from DWSAgent, but it's just too slow
> >> as a file server.
> >>
> >> Has anybody instituted their own cloud server?
> >>
> >> Mine would have to be smart enough to recognize the NAT'd server behind
> >> my FiOS account.
> >>
> >> Suggestions greatly appreciated!
> >>
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