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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I know this might go against the grain a little but I ended up going with a Western Digital MyCloud drive. It backs up all the computers in my house, backs up my phone (Android), has a phone app, supports ftp, supports ssh, supports rsync, can back itself up (snapshot) to another daisy-chained drive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Overall I’m very happy with it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>/Raj<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vernard Martin<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 10, 2015 11:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br><b>Subject:</b> [ale] Best Self-Hosted Cloud Solutions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>As of late, I've been adding up the list of all of my cloud storage solutions and its getting out of hand:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Box... and a few other minor ones that I don't really use that much.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>In any event, I'm thinking its time to host my own services so that I can have a bit more control and tailor the services to exactly what I need. I'm currently using Comcast residential service with their Arista cable modem for 50Mb down/10Mb up and 300GB of data a month. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What software and what techical issues do you run into when using Comcast networking <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've heard of owncloud and fiddled with it a year or so ago. It was moderately nice but not a full replacement<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've heard of Paperwork to replace Evernote but its not very polished yet.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've heard some folks use WebDAV to do all of it and just push raw data around.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've briefly used OpenFiler and FreeNas for home nas duties but they appear to have plugins to handle cloud stuff too.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>What solutions do YOU use and how much difficulty have you had hosting it?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I figured that the ALE group probably has already done this a few times in the past and this was the best place to look. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Vernard<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>