MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud

Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by anderspitman on Thursday May 25, 2017 @12:01AM (#14415224)

I dabbled with ownCloud, Seafile, etc and came away disappointed. At the time I was trying to run them on a raspberry pi and ownCloud at least was too heavy. Eventually I found Syncthing and that's been the ticket for me. It's great for synchronization but not so much for general sharing.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by mikenew on Thursday May 25, 2017 @12:36AM (#14415318)

If all you want is file syncing then Syncthing is really fantastic. I have a NextCloud installation on a Raspberry Pi 3, and getting it to work well took some suffering. If you use a MySQL database and php 7 it can actually perform pretty well though, at least for a small number of clients. A big issue with the Pi is that it shares the Ethernet and USB on the same bus, so there's a hard limit to your file access speeds. But for syncing between my own machines plus the occasional file share I am extremely happy with the setup.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by agnivade on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:31AM (#14415866)

We evaluated syncthing. There is a glaring problem which the developer has chose to deliberately ignore. Couldn't move forward due to it - - https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/107#issuecomme...

- https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/3527

tl;dr- Syncthing doesn't do a rolling hash implementation. Therefore, lets say you have a 1GB file. And you add a 1 line header at the top of the file, syncthing will download the entire file.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by bronson on Thursday May 25, 2017 @04:07AM (#14415980)

You saw that 3527 was merged in December? Is there still an issue?

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by jancsika on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:26PM (#14420645)

merge link: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/commit/05828368200d51...

discussion link: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/3527

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by shaan7 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:49AM (#14415929)

What I do is MySQL+Nextcloud/Apache on a RPi and another Nextcloud instance on Apache on my desktop computer. Both the Apache instances are load balanced using keepalived. This gives me two things- 1. Good performance if my desktop Ubuntu is running. 2. When its not (happens when I reboot to Windows to play games), the RPi serves Nextcloud at a slower speed.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by lebrad on Thursday May 25, 2017 @01:24AM (#14415450)

I second syncthing. It's been gloriously reliable on Linux, macOS, and Windows, even while pumping terabytes through it.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by ekianjo on Thursday May 25, 2017 @01:52AM (#14415524)

Syncthing is fantastic. It completely replaces Dropbox for folder duplication and syncing. Extremely reliable.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by thomasDE on Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:27AM (#14416408)

What exactly was the problem with Seafile? I was looking for a Dropbox alternative. Tried Owncloud and was fairly disappointed. But Seafile is working great for me (using it for ~1.5 years now).

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by j88439h84 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:21AM (#14415625)

Nextcloud VM https://github.com/nextcloud/vm sets it up automatically. Very easy to use.

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Re:MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized Alt to YouTube,... by simplehuman on Thursday May 25, 2017 @12:19AM (#14415276)

Did you try nextcloud?

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