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title: Alternate Dropbox service
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author: nek0
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tags: english, projects
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description: My personal recommendation for a dropbox alternative
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Are you looking for a Dropbox alternative? An open spurce alternative hosted on your own server? I may have found an answer.
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The Answer is [seafile](http://seafile.com), a pretty powerful piece of software written in C and Python. I started my own seafile service on this server and am pretty happy with it. There's only one drawback I have found out: the upload rates are pretty low, which could be caused by crappy ISPs or the encryption of seafile itself. But even Dropbox doesn't have the best upload rates, so what.
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Additionally there are clients for most platforms and even the source code is available, so you can build it yourself, if it's not available for your platform.
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The installation itself is pretty straightforward if you follow the wiki, even if you want some specialties like nginx as your webserver.
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