Comment on What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends?

• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Having come from zero knowledge, to now self-hosting for over a year, I can tell you that you just search for them one at a time. Sometimes they will make sense. Sometimes not yet.

  Stick around here, ask questions, and look things up.

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• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not sure if I’m using all of those 100% correctly (e.g. “Public facing”). But either use a search engine, or just ask.

  What terms do you have in mind that you want to learn about?

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry I meant more what’s in that git summary,

    Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps

    I know FTP but the rest I dont really understand. Im often confused by stuff on git.

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    • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t looked at that GitHub but I’m familiar with most of the terms so here goes (verify them if you wish, I can’t promise full accuracy).

      portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads: portable most likely means it’s easy to transfer from one server to another should you ever upgrade servers or anything else. resumable means you can pause the transfers if you desire.

      dedup: it will automatically deduplicate files. so if you upload the same file twice it will just use the one you previously uploaded, saving space.

      webdav is for distributed authoring and versioning. I don’t know a crazy amount about it by assume it means there’s some code in place that aids with collaboration as far as sensing a file, working on it, and reuploading goes.

      ftp: file transfer protocol.

      tftp: trivial file transfer protocol. good for small things but iirc it’s not inherently secure

      zerconf: plug and play. no messing with configs needed.

      media indexer/all in one file: most likely indexes media uploaded and stores the generated thumbnails in one big file. most likely this is so it’ll be easier to transfer the install to another server if needed (you can move one big file containing all the thumbnails instead of a bunch of tiny ones).

      no deps: no dependencies, everything you need is self contained in that repo.

      again, double check things your curious about but that’s my interpretation of what most would agree is kind of just a keyword description lol

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      • kossa@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Webdav is just a http “file system”. You can then e.g. mount the storage space as a webfolder in your operating system.

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