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SelfHosted Cloud vs Syncs vs WebDav

March 15, 2025

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
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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

See STFP-Go Config File 🐳 ↗
#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

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

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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 it 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

ℹ️
If you are on windows, install WINSCP or Filezilla
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

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

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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

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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

MIT | Go Managed File Transfer

Personal Drive

Apache v2 | Self Hosted Google drive alternative

Just Sync

Syncthing

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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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Concepts and Tools

I used iperf and iotop to check that I get ~730Mbits/sec on Wifi and ~916Mbits/sec on eth

More Tools

See 7 other tools to setup with Docker 📌

  1. https://github.com/maxime1907/docker-filegator

  2. Filerun

#version: '2'

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb:10.1
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: your_mysql_root_password
      MYSQL_USER: your_filerun_username
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: your_filerun_password
      MYSQL_DATABASE: your_filerun_database
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/filerun/db:/var/lib/mysql

  web:
    image: filerun/filerun:8.1
    environment:
      FR_DB_HOST: db
      FR_DB_PORT: 3306
      FR_DB_NAME: your_filerun_database
      FR_DB_USER: your_filerun_username
      FR_DB_PASS: your_filerun_password
      APACHE_RUN_USER: www-data
      APACHE_RUN_USER_ID: 33
      APACHE_RUN_GROUP: www-data
      APACHE_RUN_GROUP_ID: 33
    depends_on:
      - db
    links:
      - db:db
    ports:
      - "80:80"
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/filerun/html:/var/www/html
      - /home/Docker/filerun/user-files:/user-files
  1. Filezilla
#https://filezilla-project.org

---
#version: "2.1"
services:
  filezilla:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/filezilla:latest
    container_name: filezilla
    security_opt:
      - seccomp:unconfined #optional
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Etc/UTC
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/filezilla/config:/config
    ports:
      - 3000:3000
      - 3001:3001
    restart: unless-stopped
  1. Picoshare
#version: '2'
services:
  picoshare:
    environment:
      - PORT=3002
      - PS_SHARED_SECRET=yosuacerdo
    ports:
      - 3002:3002
    volumes:
      - picoshare:/data
    container_name: picoshare
    image: mtlynch/picoshare:latest
    networks:
      - cloudflare_tunnel
    #restart: always     
      

volumes:
  picoshare:

networks:
  cloudflare_tunnel:
    external: true
  1. Pingvin
#https://github.com/stonith404/pingvin-share/blob/main/docker-compose.yml


#version: '3.8'
services:
  pingvin:
    image: stonith404/pingvin-share
    container_name: pingvin
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 3055:3000
    volumes:
      - "/home/Docker/pingvin/data:/opt/app/backend/data"
      - "/home/Docker/pingvin/data/images:/opt/app/frontend/public/img"
    networks:
      - cloudflare_tunnel
    #restart: always     

networks:
  cloudflare_tunnel:
    external: true
  1. vsftpd
#https://hub.docker.com/r/fauria/vsftpd/
#X86

version: '3'
services:
  vsftpd:
    image: fauria/vsftpd
    container_name: vsftpd
    volumes:
      - /home/Docker/vsftpd:/home/vsftpd
    ports:
      - "20:20"
      - "21:21"
      - "21100-21110:21100-21110"
    environment:
      - FTP_USER=myuser
      - FTP_PASS=mypass
      - PASV_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1
      - PASV_MIN_PORT=21100
      - PASV_MAX_PORT=21110
    restart: always


# version: '2.1'
# services:
#   ftp:
#     image: fauria/vsftpd
#     ports:
#       - 21:21
#     environment:
#       - FTP_USER=one
#       - FTP_PASS=StrongPassword1
#       - PASV_ADDRESS=your_server_ip_address #192.168.3.200 #localhost #greatdomain.com
#     volumes:
#       - /home/Docker/delfer/one:/home/vsftpd/one
  1. Anonupload
#https://github.com/supernova3339/anonupload

version: '3'

services:
  anonupload:
    image: ghcr.io/supernova3339/anonfiles:1
    container_name: anonupload
    ports:
      - "77:80"
    volumes:
      - /etc/anonupload/files:/var/www/html/files
    environment:
      - ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@admin.com
      - ADMIN_PASSWORD=password
      - APP_FILELIST=jpeg,jpg,gif,png,zip,xls,doc,mp3,mp4,mpeg,wav,avi,rar,7z,txt
      - APP_SIZE_VERIFICATION=true
      - APP_FILE_DESTINATION=files
      - APP_BASE_URL=https://xxx.xxx/
      - APP_MAX_SIZE=10000000000
      - APP_MIN_SIZE=0
      - APP_CONTACT_EMAIL=changemecerdo
      - APP_DOWNLOAD_TIME=30
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