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SparkleShare - Roll Your Own Dropbox With a VPS
serverbear
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Anyone tried this? It's Open Source, I was thinking of forking the code & creating something that allowed people to link Dropbox type functionality to their own backup VPS or S3.
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Awesome
When I last checked them they've got no Windows support...
Do now http://sparkleshare.org/windows-downloads/
Has Windows 7 Support - http://sparkleshare.org/windows-downloads/
I've used https://owncloud.com/ for this before. Anyone know how they compare?
Afaik owncloud is more mature and around for a pretty long time
Yep thanks for the head up I do know that and that's why I replied:p
I personally just use Sshfs Manager on Windowe for that sort of stuff, much more simple.
I saw this when I try to purchase an unmeterd vps from redinit ( saw their post on WHT VPS Offer), but then I just went with catalystvps @jarland.
Didn't tried sparkleshare yet, didn't have time to learn it yet
The Catalyst VPS plans look solid, gonna bench a few tonight & add to SB.
I tried it with Ubuntu a while ago (11.04), but it would never sync properly and removed it a day later.
@serverbear you can already link it to your VPS (it just uses git)
@serverbear, I've run the Benchmark for the VPS1/128MB plan by using your script
http://www.syncany.org/ is another alternative.
ORLY?
There are no official releases yet. Stay tuned!
So using git would mean that it's versioned and could roll back any file changes. Nice
Why on earth do these things insist on dropping some long-named directory in your $HOME?
FFS, at least let me decide where I put it.
SparkleShare sounds like a My Little Pony giving you a venereal disease.
Pretty cool, any other suggestions out there? would love to have some synced+encrypted folders on a vps or two (maybe sync between desktop and 1 vps and then have the files auto sync to another vps so I got 2 copies of everything).
@JoeMerit Don't count out Dropbox unless you just have too much stuff. Attach a camera and let it upload a ton of photos. Get some free google ad credit and throw your affiliate link on there. I think you can get up to 16GB free from doing those.
yeah, I got a 50gb box.net account and apparently they are enabling Box Sync on personal accounts.. so we'll see.
Man that would be nice. I know I shouldn't expect much for free, but if you're there for me when I don't need much and offer me a reasonable upgrade path later, I tend to show my appreciation at some point.
had a play with owncloud tonight on a VPS, its OK I guess but it did feel a little clunky and full of bugs and documentation fails, I suppose they are pushing the commercial version and dont care to much for the community one, I will probably have a look at my little pony too.
I got a 50gb free account on box.net as I said and then I opened a support ticket to have the Box Sync enabled, so now I got the windows app rocking out and can put stuff in there now (no files over 100MB though.) Only problem I have now is do I trust them?
somebody said.. PONIES?!
Owncloud is pretty buggy.. wouldn't recommend it and their bug tracker server is slow as heck.
This is my tutorial which worked awesome for me:
http://www.vandorp.biz/2012/01/how-to-earn-8gb-or-16gb-dropbox-referral-bonus-space-the-easy-free-way/
Welcome back @netomx! :P
Thank you! some problems with my sentimental life, but here I am!
CloudFlare like options for a VPS? Umm...what about Samba?