Self-Hosting Seafile: High-Performance File Sync (Nextcloud Alternative)
Self-Hosting Seafile: High-Performance File Sync (Nextcloud Alternative) Nextcloud does everything. That’s its greatest strength and its biggest weakness. If you’ve ever watched Nextcloud grind to a halt syncing 50,000 files, or spent a weekend debugging a broken upgrade, you already know what I mean. Seafile takes the opposite approach: do file sync extraordinarily well, and leave everything else to other tools. Seafile is an open-source file hosting platform built on a custom storage engine inspired by Git’s data model. Files are split into blocks, deduplicated, and delta-synced — which makes it dramatically faster than WebDAV-based alternatives for large file collections. It’s been around since 2012, is written in C and Python, and is battle-tested at universities and enterprises with millions of files. ...