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by cefstat 4076 days ago
The reason I am not committing to Dropbox Pro is because I need to use such a service when I'm in China (and with people in China). Setting up an EC2 server, configuring apache or nginx, setting up some access control, etc., goes completely against the whole idea of Dropbox being simple. Also, it's one way, unless you go to extra lengths to setup some upload system. Of course if this is something you use several times each day then it's worth setting up, but for occasional use it's really an overkill. By the way, no, I haven't found any good substitute for Dropbox that works in China.
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Yeah, I said that mainly for my somewhat niche case of having a team that works together on stuff in the US but needs to on occasion share files to partners in China or team members who need to access files while in China. Agreed that it isn't the most convenient but once you set it up it just takes care of itself for the most part. Dropbox is just syncing files so there isn't much that can break.
ownCloud will work in china because you run it off your own server.