Problems with various cloud hosts and filesharing
Minixed
Lychee
- excellent instant photo gallery
- completely obscure file storage method
- hashed filenames placed in hashed folder tree similar to SurgeMail account storage
- only supports picture formats - cannot be used for PDFs
- no anonymous upload, but you can create isolated accounts, so one per event, for instance
Chevereto
- similar to Lychee
- almost all features require "pro" paid version
- as a result, unable to test
Box
- need business account for anonymous upload
Dropbox
- rubbish - but getting better
- file request does not need business account
- free is limited to a total of 2GB
- sends email notification of uploads
- allows anonymous uploads
- may autologin people with Dropbox accounts
OneDrive
- upload to shared folder needs login by uploader
- "naked" file request needs business account
- has excellent previews and album creation
- may autologin people with OneDrive accounts
Google Drive
- uploader needs google account
FileRun --- use for as long as possible
- Superb, but personal FREE version discontinued late 2023
- 5 user accounts (commercial usage) with one year of updates 99 Euros (approx $150)
- 5 user accounts Non-commercial/Family use with lifetime updates 99 Euros
- gold standard
- could not get to run under Windows
Aurora Files --- best choice for sharing with known users
- great interface
- resolves file changes on backend
- no self registration
- no file requests
- cannot play or preview audio or video files
- no forgotten password reset
- very obscure distributed config files
- no email notifications
- set thumbnail limit size in D:\AuroraFiles\data\settings\config.json
Filegator --- best choice for blind uploads
- difficult to customize
- blind uploads allowed
- allows nested folders and replicates them
- figures out backend changes
- does not provide thumbnails or previews or online viewing
NextCloud
- overkill
- self registration needs plugin but works
- file requests use cludgy public uploads
- backend is a mess
- user names are random strings
- does not resolve backend changes
- no windows server version
- requires PHP 8
OwnCloud
- overkill
- self registration needs plugin and has no install instructions
- file requests use cludgy public uploads
- backend is a mess???
- user names are random strings
- does not resolve backend changes
- no windows server version
Seafile
Pydio
- now called/is Pydio Cells
- needs root access
FileStash
Filecloud
- Community edition at https://ce.filecloud.com/
- free
- Windows install is a full Xampp stack
- insanely large number of files
- massive overkill for a bit of private sharing
- test install on Surface7 took ages and requires a ton of management
Project Send
- sends email notifications
- allows self registration
- available from softaculous
- prefixes filename with random string
- orphan files can be added. The list only shows the files allowed according to security settings. Nedd to upload to particular folder.
- no folder structure
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