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Question: Instead of Nextcloud, why not use a FTPS server with an nice client? (alien.top)
submitted 9 months ago by antoine849502@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I genuinely courious to know, why has this very old and established protocol lost over cloud solutions like Nextcloud (or even Google Drive)?

note: the question is for both FTPs or sFTP

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[โ€“] adamshand@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In my opinion, they do different things.

SFTP/SCP are great ways of transferring files between computers. I prefer rsync for most things because it can resume transfers and checksum results. I'd never use FTPS because SFTP/SCP comes with SSH, and why run a separate service? SSHFS is another way to use SSH to transfer files (it mounts a remote file system to your local computer so you can use all your normal file management tools).

NextCloud (and similar) do a bunch of additional things:

  • Provides clients which sync files to your local computer
  • Provides a web interface for managing files
  • Provides ways to share files without creating accounts
  • Allows connecting external storage (eg. S3)
  • Provides encryption
  • And a lot more

If SFTP does everything you need, that's awesome. Use it. :-)

[โ€“] antoine849502@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Thanks for your answer, answers my question perfectly!