Hello!

I recently had issues with my self-hosted instance of Nextcloud so I started looking for an alternative to it.

I would like something that could allow me to make a local network of shared files between devices I choose, if that makes any sense.

I stumbled upon Syncthing but it doesen’t seem what I had in mind: I understand that it replicates folders between devices, but I am looking for a way to distribuite files between machines. Again, like Nextcloud but without a central server to rely to.

Do you know if something of that sort exists?

Or if you have any other solution?

Thank you.

P.S. I am posting it here because it seems like some sort of self-hosting, but maybe I will cross-post it to the decentralized comunity.

  • ChojinDSL
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    1 year ago

    I take it you mean, distributed cloud storage, as in… you have 3 servers which have your data, if one goes down, your data is still available?

    You want to look at things like, DRBD, GlusterFS or CephFS. Those are file system technologies for distributed storage, where depending on the configuration you can either have a networked equivalent of Raid1, Raid10, or Raid5/6.