Seafile

Continuing with my journey to replace publicly hosted cloud services with self-hosted solutions. One of the nice developments of the recent years are services like Dropbox or Google Drive, which really simplify some use cases. For example, in my own workflow I mainly use these services to a) synchronize unix configuration files, b) synchronize some random temp files I need on several computers or which I need from my phone (I am usually too lazy to get a cable), c) for easy sharing of photos or other files, and d) for synchronizing my Lightroom catalogue across devices, a quite heavy task because of the monolithic sqlite file with > 1 GB. There have only been a few cases where I actually used a shared folder for collaborative work. Computer scientists have better tools for such jobs. ;) So my need for something that is really accepted by many users is again questionable. Hence, I could easily search for a self-hosted solution without many drawbacks. ...