in recent time, the domestic network set off large-scale rectification wind, 115 network disk, Sina Micro-disk, Jinshan fast disk and many other personal free cloud storage business are facing shutdown. This means that the free lunch on the net is about to be eaten. Users who use the above network Disk Service can choose to build their own private cloud storage in addition to preparing their hard disk for the time limit and downloading their files to the local hard disk.
Small series selection of the current market, the existence of a variety of private cloud services, selected seafile free open source cloud storage services to introduce. It is reported that the service was developed by the domestic team, currently has 200,000 users around the world, including Peking University, the Royal Museum of Natural Science in Belgium, Germany's Wuppertal Climate, Energy Research Institute and many other well-known institutions. Any individual and enterprise users can build their own cloud server, enjoy the convenience of the cloud era. The client and server software for the service is free to download, and the advantage of the open source version is that all the code is public, and malicious code and vulnerabilities are hard to live with.
The service has the following characteristics:
• Reliable file synchronization: files are organized into repositories. Each repository is optionally synchronized to any device. Reliable and efficient file synchronization will improve your productivity.
• Built-in file encryption: A database can be encrypted with the password you choose. Files are encrypted and uploaded to the server. Even a system administrator cannot view an encrypted database.
• Team collaboration: You can share files to groups. Rights management, versioning, and event notifications make collaboration more fluid.
• High performance: Seafile server kernel is written in C language. Run up small and fast.
• Simple upgrade: Just download the latest package, a simple script that completes the version upgrade.
• Suitable for enterprise environment: can integrate with AD/LDAP. Can synchronize AD groups and user information.
The Seafile client has a desktop version of Win7/win8.1/win10, Mac, Linux, and Android and iOS editions, which can also be connected via a Web version, and the server supports Windows, Linux, and raspberry systems. This indicates that the service almost supports all systems.
Under the condition of LAN, the device can access the cloud storage server that it builds. If you want to use your own cloud storage anytime and anywhere, you can deploy Seafile to VPS, standalone servers, and cloud services such as Aliyun and Linode.
In addition, Seafile supports multiple server switching. For example, you can separate private and public servers, your own files can upload to a private server, corporate files can use the public server synchronization, all by the user decision. This doesn't have to worry about other users having a chance to see your personal files.