![]() OwnCloud too supports all devices as Nextcloud except for Windows Mobile. Its mobile apps are available for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms with the last one still in testing phase. Nextcloud desktop clients support Windows 7 and above, macOS 10.10 and newer versions, and Linux distributions as well. Of course, both the other solutions provide all the necessary sharing features. OwnCloud surely stands out in this section with its unique feature ‘Guests’. It also avails a library feature to create libraries of files and folders that you can then sync or share. Seafile too offers almost the same features as Nextcloud. What I found unique as well as interesting is its ‘Guests’ feature, which enables creating limited accounts that allow guests to have full collaboration without assigning them as members. OwnCloud features all sharing features of Nextcloud. You can also add a expiration date or a password to links for added protection. ![]() Moreover, you can search for and share a file with a user or group on the cloud, add comments to discuss about it, or create a public link to share it with others. It supports Collabora Online Office to allow viewing and editing documents online. Nextcloud offers numerous features to enhance collaboration among a team. And both of these offer a lot more than Seafile for getting and setting up a private cloud. You can get ready-made devices with preinstalled Nextcloud, which are not available for ownCloud. Moreover, it offers docker images and supports Raspberry Pi as well, interestingly. Seafile gives less options than the above two - a web installer (installation script) as well as pre-built binary packages for Linux distributions. Moreover, there are various hosting partners to create and sign up for your private cloud quickly. It also offers appliances, images, and distribution packages to deploy it readily on servers. OwnCloud, being the base of Nextcloud, offers almost similar installation options - a tarball and a web installer. Lastly, there are also officially suggested cloud providers and device manufacturers to get it easily. It also offers appliances and images for easy deployment to your servers. Nextcloud provides numerous methods to install or get it - an archive file and a web installer for dedicated servers and shared hosts. The most notable among those is, ownCloud and Seafile offer two editions - a server edition that is free and open-source and a pro/enterprise edition with extra features, but Nextcloud, on the other hand, features a single edition with optional enterprise support. And Seafile was born with an objective to develop and distribute a file syncing software.Īlthough these three were started to provide a proprietary-free cloud storage solution yet they have lots of differences. Nextcloud, on the other hand, is a featureful fork of ownCloud that was started by ownCloud’s core developers including its founding developer. ![]() OwnCloud was started to provide a free replacement for proprietary storage service providers. Western Digital do one, but from what I can tell you need a special WD drive for it.Good luck, let us know if this is helpful.I often thought Dropbox as a simple cloud storage service that you can use to save and share. There are a couple of other alternatives we have covered before, they are:Seafile: Sync & AeroFS: (possibly outdated): (same): found these on MUO, and tried Googling but couldn't really come up with much more (particularly for free). The process depends on which you choose, but generally the most popular solution is OwnCloud, which we have featured here: process would involve downloading and running XAMPP, downloading and installing OwnCloud, configuring it to use the locations of your choice, configuring your router so that ports are forwarded, ensuring you have a static IP (or use something like DynDNS, ) then connecting via OwnCloud's own iOS/Android apps for mobile content, or using web access from a PC/Mac.The best thing here is that you could run this on Windows 7, rather than running it as part of a Linux distro (some use this method). There are actually quite a few options available to you, many of which we have covered in articles in the past.
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