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Stop paying twice for storage. Use your spare webhosting as your own cloud drive (github.com)
2 points by Hilliard_Ohiooo 44 days ago
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al_borland 44 days ago
I tried doing this (just with FTP) about 15+ years ago when I had a ton of space on a budget webhoting service (I think Dreamhost). I ended up getting a message from them saying that was not what their service is for and stop it.

Maybe encryption would partial help solve that, or the rules have changed, but I figured I’d mention it for awareness.

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Hilliard_Ohiooo 40 days ago
Wow, interesting thank you! I figured they track upload/download rates so as long as you stay within. I will watch it close, thanks!
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theamk 44 days ago
This seems to be some sort of PHP upload/download tool, together with its own custom protocol and custom client.

But why? If you have server access, use it directly. There are plenty of programs which can sync over SCP/SFTP/FTP etc.. directly, no need for some weird PHP shell and custom protocol and 2nd password...

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Hilliard_Ohiooo 40 days ago
Thank you! What I'm thinking is a Gdrive replacement for my phone/desktop that I host myself.

Can I ask, what do you mean with plenty of programs that sync over scp...? Just using like Filezilla is the same really.

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