Syncthing v2.0

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I used Syncthing for many years, absolutely rock solid. I wanted to use it to replace Dropbox but renting a VPS with enough storage was surprisingly expensive - you’re no longer in the loss-leader section of their offerings.

Couldn’t you mount a Hetzner Storage Box via SAMBA (SMB) or FTP to your device and then point Syncthing at that network storage? The box is €3.20 per month for 1TB of storage.

I'm loooking at the product page but I don't understand how it's supposed to work.

Is it a "box" in the sense that you get your own dedicated virtual machine with some software pre-installed?

Do you get a quota on a public service ?

I'm interested but I'm not sure how is that supposed to work.

It’s a network attached storage with some FTP/SAMBA etc managed by you via a web interface.

Think VPS with lots of storage, but with file-storage software pre-installed and configured and only ability to change users. I don’t know how else to explain.

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