Question: Instead of Nextcloud, why not use a FTPS server with an nice client? - eviltoast

I genuinely courious to know, why has this very old and established protocol lost over cloud solutions like Nextcloud (or even Google Drive)?

note: the question is for both FTPs or sFTP

  • adamshand@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    In my opinion, they do different things.

    SFTP/SCP are great ways of transferring files between computers. I prefer rsync for most things because it can resume transfers and checksum results. I’d never use FTPS because SFTP/SCP comes with SSH, and why run a separate service? SSHFS is another way to use SSH to transfer files (it mounts a remote file system to your local computer so you can use all your normal file management tools).

    NextCloud (and similar) do a bunch of additional things:

    • Provides clients which sync files to your local computer
    • Provides a web interface for managing files
    • Provides ways to share files without creating accounts
    • Allows connecting external storage (eg. S3)
    • Provides encryption
    • And a lot more

    If SFTP does everything you need, that’s awesome. Use it. :-)