Hello!

Its been just about a year since someone forwarded this post to me, and I just want to say, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE COPYPARTY

I’ve kinda started using it for everything. It may have gotten out-of-hand…

A short list:

• I use it as the primary file sharing server for a small community I help run
• I use it as a personal file storage system with search (I wrote a custom plug-in for it that adds content-based search via meilisearch)
• Perhaps most-unhinged, I started using it the primary network-based file system on my LAN. It has so many more useful features for this than NFS, SSHFS, and Samba that it just became the obvious choice. I set up a webDAV share with a username/password and then mount it via systemd-mount and rclone, and its been working shockingly well.

Thank you so much for making copyparty, and thank you for posting this <3

That’s reasonable, however, my personal bias is towards security and I feel like if I don’t push people towards automated updates, they will leave vulnerable, un-updated containers exposed to the web. I think a better approach would be to push for backups with versioning. I forgot to add that I am planning a “backups with Syncthing” article as well, I will take this into consideration, add it to the article, and use it as a way to demonstrate recovery in the event of such an issue.