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FileCloud
Company blog · getfilecloud.com/blogbusinesssystems
FileCloud is the company blog at getfilecloud.com, writing about business and systems. Since 2013, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
FileCloud is an enterprise file sharing, sync and backup solution that offers private, public and hybrid cloud content services.
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It is not correct to say none of the dropbox competitors offer linux sync clients. We ( https://www.getfilecloud.com ) are a dropbox competitor and we offer clients for windows, mac and linux. We are also rank comparably well when it comes to customer rating in Gartner Peer Reviews ( https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/content-collaboration... ). It is most likely Dropbox faces higher churn in their primary custo…
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on “Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce”Submitted Why does Self-Hosted File Sharing, Sync solution makes sense for Business? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFileCloud Community Edition ( https://www.getfilecloud.com/filecloud-community-edition/ ) is another viable option for self-hosted file sync and sharing. It runs on top of windows and linux. The installation takes just couple of seconds
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on “Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google”Submitted Top resources for System Administrators as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFor majority of the users delta sync doesn’t bring much benefits . See here https://www.getfilecloud.com/blog/2017/03/myths-and-facts-ab... Most of the modern files like office documents and pdfs are compressed. Delta Sync only will help in scenarios if you have bitmaps and vm disks.
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on “Dropbox exposes personal details of viewers of publicly shared Paper documents”I don't know where you get the idea that there are not good choices for on-premise, file share and sync solutions. There are products like filecloud ( http://www.getfilecloud.com ) which have been solving this pain very nicely.
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on “The AeroFS Private Cloud”Check out FileCloud Community Edition. You can self-host on windows or linux. https://www.getfilecloud.com/filecloud-community-edition/
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on “Self-Hosted Chat for Small Teams”Dropbox for Business is still a public cloud service. The reality is we live in information economy where information and intellectual property is a first order citizens for any business. So storing your organization data to a public cloud (whether it is dropbox or some other service) is equivalent to giving keys to your organization's treasure trove. Also Dropbox being a high profile target, if the service hacked f…
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on “Dropbox for business”If you are looking for a commercial (not opensource) self-hosted dropbox alternative, FileCloud ( https://www.getfilecloud.com ) is great. It comes with great support and has clients for windows, mac and linux. Full Disclosure: I work here.
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