September 9, 20169 yr Hi - I'm trying to help my wife's small company modernize their file sharing/storage (not hard, they're emailing files and passing around a USB stick). No more than 5 people, and it has to be really easy to use. And free is nice . Or at least low cost. I'm trying to figure out options and I'd value any insight that you have. Some requirements. Fully cloud based is Ok but local copies with cloud sync (and conflict resolution) would be better so they have offline access. People will be accessing these files from several locations, primarily with Windows 10 PCs but iOS would be nice to have. I'm not looking for a backup solution - the goal is a shared cloud based file system. The solution would be very basic for the users - browse for file, click file, launch appropriate application with file. It needs to be simple, though, and they won't like extra steps (like download file, modify, upload file, etc). unRAID could be part of the solution, or not. 100GB of total storage is fine for now and 250GB is probably the max I can imagine. My unRAID server could be the storage location, accessed remotely. It seems like ownCloud and now NextCloud are the main solutions? I'd have to get comfortable with the security of this kind of solution. unRAID could be a client, syncing a copy of the cloud based files to my unRAID server? Seems like OneDrive, Google Drive and DropBox might fit here? unRAID not involved. Lots of options, Box, Bitcasa, etc. I'd love to hear recommendations on anything that works well and is low cost. In your experience, what works well and is worth looking into further? Thanks!
September 9, 20169 yr What kind of upload / download speed do you have available for your unraid server? Do you have monthly data transfer limits?
September 10, 20169 yr Author It's Comcast, currently 12Mbps up and 165Mbps down though that's performing a bit better than their plan description so it could go down to 10/150 I think. Their agreement includes monthly caps but they currently don't implement one. I'm more likely to blow through any potential cap with NetFlix than a couple of office folks and their Word docs and jpgs, though .
September 10, 20169 yr I'd at least spin up a nextcloud docker and give it a test drive. I haven't played with the desktop clients, but the android client works well. I have the client set to push any pictures and video as soon as they are created.
September 10, 20169 yr Will it be used simply as a file sharing repository or do you require file locking for live editing (something like Sharepoint)?
September 10, 20169 yr Author Does NextCloud require any other components? It looks like either it or ownCloud required a database. Also, how do you access it - is VPN required or an open port? File Locking or conflict resolution if there are local copies of the files ("It looks like the server copy has been updated by someone else, do you still want to save?") are both nice to have, but not a requirement.
September 10, 20169 yr I'd use onedrive and sync to unraid via a vm. It has a native windows app which retains local copies for offline use.
September 10, 20169 yr Does NextCloud require any other components? It looks like either it or ownCloud required a database. Also, how do you access it - is VPN required or an open port?Yes, you install a database docker as well, you open a https port to access it.
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