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Question: Instead of Nextcloud, why not use a FTPS server with an nice client? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by antoine849502@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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

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[–] string-user-equals@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

I mean it all depends on what you are using it for. Would I use it to simply transfer file from point A to point B? No, that’s what SFTP is for.

Would I use it to keep files in sync regardless of if I updated it on Point A or Point B? Heck yea! Could you do that via FTP? Maybe but it’d be manual and easy to screw up.

Would I use next cloud to share a directory with a friend? Yep! Couldn’t do it with SFTP? Probably but setting up a user and permissions is kind of a pain. And if I’m going to be sharing out single files all the time with tons of randoms, SFTP just isn’t going to cut it.

Would I use next could for versioning? Probably as long as it’s not code (I’d use git for code). Could you do that with FTP? Not really, not unless you did v1, etc in your files names etc. And at that point, you just must really hate nextcloud.

That’s just a few examples. Theres a ton more based on use cases. And in most of them you could probably find a solution using just SFTP. But it’ll probably be a lot more work than just using a more appropriate tool.