SelfHosted Cloud vs Syncs vs WebDav

I was confortable so far thinking that it was all about Nextcloud and Syncthing.

But lets have a closer look, as ftp and webdavs can also make the trick in some cases.

SelfHosted Cloud

NextCloud

1. Nextcloud Docker Compose 🐳

sudo flatpak install flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud -y
#See how quick you are transfering data
#sudo apt install nload
#nload

• Recommended Apps inside Nextcloud: cospend (moneybuster Android)
• You can use also NC as a file drop: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user_manual/en/files/file_drop.html#setting-up-your-own-file-drop

Crucial SSD for a Pi

Ready to Plug to MiniPC or SBc

WebDavs

With Nextcloud you can also have your files visible via WebDav.

Add them with: davs://your_nc_user@nextcloud.yourdomain.duckdns.org/remote.php/webdav or dav://your_nc_user@192.168.0.12:8080/remote.php/webdav

But there are specific apps if you just need a simple web dav.

SFTP-GO

• https://docs.sftpgo.com/latest/

#docker run --name some-sftpgo -p 8080:8080 -p 2022:2022 -d "drakkan/sftpgo:tag"
docker run -d \
  --name sftpgo \
  -p 8066:8080 \
  -p 2022:2022 \
  -v /home/jalcocert/Desktop:/srv \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  drakkan/sftpgo:latest

Files will be reflected at /home/jalcocert/Desktop, particularly: ./sftpgo/data/yourcreateduser,

And to connect with your Linux Files, you can add sftp://jalcocert@192.168.0.12:2022 As the 2022 is the SFTP Port and your username.

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• http://192.168.0.12:8011/web/admin/users
• http://192.168.0.12:8011/web/client/profile

To add SFTPGo to ubuntu as a space to browse files:

sudo apt install davfs2

Then use http://192.168.0.12:8011/web/admin/folders, davs://your_nc_user@nextcloud.yourdomain.duckdns.org/remote.php/webdav or dav://your_nc_user@192.168.0.12:8080/remote.php/webdav

choco install winscp

SFTP is a secure way to transfer files over a network. It uses SSH (Secure Shell) to encrypt the data, protecting it from unauthorized access.

apt-get install iperf3
iperf3 -s #server
iperf3 -c <server IP address> #on the client

scp /home/user/Downloads/DJI_20250117084726_0009_D your_username@192.168.0.12:/home/your_username/uploads/

From Windows you can:

sftp your_username@192.168.0.12
#your_username@192.168.0.12's password:

sftp> cd /home/your_username/uploads
sftp> put "C:\Users\j--e-\Proton Drive\jalcocer\My files\folder\DJI_20250112113040_0012_D.MP4"
sftp> exit

You can see the disk load:

sudo apt install iotop

sudo iotop

Yes, when you connect to an SFTP server, you typically need to provide the username and password (or SSH key) of a valid user account on the remote system where the SFTP server is running.

It’s not necessarily your Windows user/password unless those credentials happen to be the same on the remote system.

That’s a very important distinction! The speed you get with SFTP over your home Wi-Fi will be limited by your local Wi-Fi speeds, not your internet upload speed from your ISP. Here’s why:

Local Network vs. Internet Connection

• Local Network (LAN):
  • Your home Wi-Fi network creates a local area network (LAN).
  • When you transfer files between your laptop and server within your home, the data stays within this LAN.
  • The speed of this transfer is determined by your Wi-Fi router’s capabilities and the factors mentioned earlier (Wi-Fi standard, interference, etc.).
• Internet Connection (WAN):
  • Your internet upload speed from your ISP is relevant when you’re transferring files over the internet to a server that’s located outside your home network.
  • For example, if you were uploading files to a cloud server or a remote server hosted by a different company.

Why Wi-Fi Speed Matters for Home SFTP:

• Since your laptop and server are on the same local network, the data doesn’t travel through your ISP’s network.
• The transfer happens directly between your laptop and server, with the router acting as the intermediary.
• Therefore, the bottleneck is your Wi-Fi speed, not your internet upload speed.

In summary:

• Local transfers (laptop to server on the same Wi-Fi): Limited by Wi-Fi speed.
• Internet transfers (laptop to remote server): Limited by your internet upload speed.

Therefore, if you are transferring files between two computers on your local home network, your internet upload speed is irrelevant.

GoMFT

• https://github.com/StarFleetCPTN/GoMFT

MIT | Go Managed File Transfer

Personal Drive

• https://github.com/gyaaniguy/personal-drive?ref=selfh.st

Apache v2 | Self Hosted Google drive alternative

Just Sync

Syncthing

Conclusions

These tools can be used together with your Photo Management Tools.

If you need to convert heic to png:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install libheif-examples
#heif-convert input.heic output.png
for file in *.heic; do heif-convert "$file" "${file%.heic}.png"; done

Sync Speed

This will depend on the router you are using:

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I used iperf and iotop to check that I get

• ~730Mbits/sec on Wifi and ~916Mbits/sec on eth

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