Is it possible to host a service like Dropbox on your own server with almost as good service?

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What if I have just made an important change and messed something up? Is this part of Dropboxes functionality?

I am considering hosting a Dropbox myself for own usage on a virtual machine, so I can also have back-ups and have more than 2GB in space.

Can iFolder offer this functionality? Is there even software available that allows to be self-hosted and offers remotely as good functionality?

You can get a lot more than 2GB with Dropbox. And yes, Dropbox has rollback functionality if you screw something up. — ceejayoz, Jun 19 '11 at 15:58

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '11 at 15:13

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The only one I know off is SparkleShare. It's brand new and a heavy beta, approach with caution. THey are still working on Windows-clients but OSX & Linux are "workable".

answered Jun 19 '11 at 15:13

Bart De Vos

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ooooooooooooh good to know thank you thank you thank you – SpacemanSpiff Jun 19 '11 at 15:22
SpacemanSpiff - if you like an answer you should vote it up, or even accept it as an answer :) – Alex Berry Jun 19 '11 at 17:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 11 '12 at 16:38

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iFolder doesn't offer versioning functionality, like Dropbox or Subversion. You can just restore manually a backup from your iFolder server if you have some issue. Another possibility is to use SVN over an iFolder folder.

answered Jan 11 '12 at 16:38

Jaime M.

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Is it possible to host a service like Dropbox on your own server with almost as good service?

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