Google Drive alternative?
Google Drive alternative?
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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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.
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.
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.