Self hosted alternatives
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Just wondering if its possible to run things self hosted and replace most of the online 3rd party services we use today? This point came up during a discussion with my friends, most solutions are already available but wondering if someone really wants to setup such thing.
I will also use this post to have a curated list of all self hosted alternatives that i know of (not sure if such a topic was discussed here previously!)
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Alternatives to what? There are a lot of SaaS applications out there.
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File Sync: ownCloud/NextCloud
Helpdesk: ManageEngine ServiceDesk offer a self hosted solution
Password Manager: KeyPass -
Possibly all common solutions out there including mail, chat, file sharing. We know there are alternatives but curious to see if anyone even willing to replace all with such things and run everything from lets say his home!
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@JaredBusch thats a good start, am thinking about common use cases not specifically in IT, lets say running these things for your close family/friends!
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@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
@JaredBusch thats a good start, am thinking about common use cases not specifically in IT, lets say running these things for your close family/friends!
Video Hosting: Plex Media Server!
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Mail: Zimbra
Chat: OpenFire/XMPP, MatterMost, RocketChat
File Sync: NextCloud -
Now question is, if you have a very good hardware, blazing fast internet that you already use, would you be willing to set these up and willing to leave 3rd party services from Google, Micrsoft etc?
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@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
That's a cool little list. Didn't know that was out there.
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@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
Now question is, if you have a very good hardware, blazing fast internet that you already use, would you be willing to set these up and willing to leave 3rd party services from Google, Micrsoft etc?
No, because I have better things to do than maintain this.
But, then I also have (currently) fewer issues with government restrictions than some places in the world.
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How many people here runs such things like dropbox alternative with NextCloud/OwnCloud reasons could be different (cost savings/dont want to save personal files out somewhere else etc)
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@NashBrydges said in Self hosted alternatives:
@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
That's a cool little list. Didn't know that was out there.
Am sure that there will be some of us here testing at least few of these products in their home lab!
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@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
How many people here runs such things like dropbox alternative with NextCloud/OwnCloud reasons could be different (cost savings/dont want to save personal files out somewhere else etc)
I use NextCloud... but only because I was curious and wanted to set it up. I've moved most of my file storage to Amazon Cloud Drive.
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@coliver said in Self hosted alternatives:
@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
How many people here runs such things like dropbox alternative with NextCloud/OwnCloud reasons could be different (cost savings/dont want to save personal files out somewhere else etc)
I use NextCloud... but only because I was curious and wanted to set it up. I've moved most of my file storage to Amazon Cloud Drive.
I've tried that too and same reason. Just curious. How is Amazon Cloud Drive now compared to Dropbox? (may be i need a seperate discussion topic for that!)
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@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
@coliver said in Self hosted alternatives:
@Ambarishrh said in Self hosted alternatives:
How many people here runs such things like dropbox alternative with NextCloud/OwnCloud reasons could be different (cost savings/dont want to save personal files out somewhere else etc)
I use NextCloud... but only because I was curious and wanted to set it up. I've moved most of my file storage to Amazon Cloud Drive.
I've tried that too and same reason. Just curious. How is Amazon Cloud Drive now compared to Dropbox? (may be i need a seperate discussion topic for that!)
Pretty good, price is great and the performance is really good.
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I just add storage to my Google Drive. No hassle and no headaches. I think it is $3 a month for an additional 100GB.
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I use Amazon Cloud Drive for personal, but I didn't know that they offered a commercial service, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in Self hosted alternatives:
I use Amazon Cloud Drive for personal, but I didn't know that they offered a commercial service, too.
Do they? I thought we were talking about personal here. A lot of these, at least in the US, you couldn't host more securely or for less money then the SaaS vendors do.
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@coliver said in Self hosted alternatives:
@scottalanmiller said in Self hosted alternatives:
I use Amazon Cloud Drive for personal, but I didn't know that they offered a commercial service, too.
Do they? I thought we were talking about personal here. A lot of these, at least in the US, you couldn't host more securely or for less money then the SaaS vendors do.
OH, I didn't realize it was a personal thread.
