[cap10morgan]

Important caveat with Firefox: You can run your own Firefox Account server (see https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...) and then e.g. connect to it over a VPN to mitigate a lot of this.

[WirelessGigabit]

Problem with this is that it needs the sync server:

> Since the Mozilla-hosted sync servers will not trust assertions issued by third-party accounts servers, you will also need to run your own sync-1.5 server.

The tutorial refers to the old unmaintained version: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver, see https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/commit/8d9804...

The alternative is https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs which is ridiculously hard to set up.

[3np]

I've posted on this a few times. Rehashing[0]:

> https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/pull/294

> So basically they stopped running the older version themselves but don't consider the newer version production-ready yet. What a mess.

This doesn't seem to have improved much since...

Some of my experience self-hosting the whole stack previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30315816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30727935

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30728966

[JetSpiegel]

> The alternative is https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs which is ridiculously hard to set up.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49...

This is the issue to watch, supporting SQLite. This makes it feasible to run a simple sync server for a single user or a small group. But this is not moving forward.

[asabla]

I got stuck with the new one as well last time I tried. But it seems like there is an docker option now, which seems to make things a lot easier