In addition to the requirements above I also came up with a number of nice-to-haves that weren’t necessarily deal breakers but would be really cool if I could make happen:

As a result I disregarded the other commercial offerings like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc. While I’m not against commercial cloud storage in all cases I think I would still prefer the ability to host my own files if at all possible.

That point about data ownership was something I was really interested in.

Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, Mac, etc.).

Ability to share specific files and folders with other people.

File synchronization between unlimited number of devices.

My list of requirements for a replacement wasn’t long but there were some things that I thought were important to have. Well… I think I may have found an alternative.

Well the other day I ran into the max device limit for the free version (which as of this writing is 3 devices) and my options were either to pay over $100/year to upgrade my account in order to increase the number of allowed devices or look for an alternative. Like most of you I have a free Dropbox account that I use to shuffle some files back and forth between devices, as well as share some folders with a few other people.

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