Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replacement

Re:Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replac... by abalone on Monday May 12, 2014 @06:08PM (#7735687)

Yes, absolutely. But that is a significantly greater requirement, each end user or workgroup running their own server. I'm not sure why I'm getting downvoted for pointing that out. It's not an apples-to-apples replacement.

This + a hosting provider would be more like an actual Dropbox replacement (e.g. owncloud.org links to a bunch of hosts).

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Re:Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replac... by pessimizer on Monday May 12, 2014 @08:59PM (#7736163)

That's not what I'm looking for. I do have a computer at home that is always on.

edit: Do people generally still turn off their home computers?

edit2: After thinking about it - what you seem to be describing is an alternative and not just a replacement. I want to replace the service that Dropbox offers with one of my own, I don't want to switch to an alternative Dropbox clone service.

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Re:Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replac... by tjmc on Monday May 12, 2014 @11:33PM (#7736488)

Huge numbers of people only have a laptop at home which sleeps when they're at work. So the only sync service that's going to work for them is something with online storage as an intermediate step.

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Re:Syncthing: Open Source Dropbox and BitTorrent Sync Replac... by enraged_camel on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @10:22AM (#7738252)

>>edit: Do people generally still turn off their home computers?

Yeah. My desktop computer eats up a lot of power even when idle. I do want the convenience of never turning it off, but I'd rather be environmentally friendly.

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