I genuinely courious to know, why has this very old and established protocol lost over cloud solutions like Nextcloud (or even Google Drive)?
note: the question is for both FTPs or sFTP
I genuinely courious to know, why has this very old and established protocol lost over cloud solutions like Nextcloud (or even Google Drive)?
note: the question is for both FTPs or sFTP
Nextcloud does calendar, contacts, photo management, maps, phone tracker, music player, forms (like google forms), todo lists, news aggregator (RSS), integration with Jitsi for web conferencing.
In the main page I can see the weather, Github notifications, reddit notifications, Mastodon notifications, Twitter notifications.
I can share a single file with a link, permanently or with a expiry date for logged-in users or publicly.
There is also hundreds more things nextcloud do but mine is configured this way. There is an app store inside it for gods sake! You can even install Solitaire…
Wake me up when FTP does half of that.
As for FTP, it’s often blocked by ISPs, slow, and the best client for it looks like it came from the 90s.
And for all of those things, my desktop and my phone have specialized applications which work better than Nextcloud in every way and do not add a huge attack vector to my personal infrastructure.
SFTP may not be the right tool for the job here, but with something like Syncthing it is infinitely easier to synchronize the data between the devices and the specialized apps work directly on the data, than forcing all different types of data through the same single type of application. There is no such thing as “dumb clients” anymore, why not leverage that?