I've railed against the cloud in the past due this exact reason.

Now I've gotten lazy and my worst fears are realized.

Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich. I've managed my own iis servers in the past so I know what a pita this is if you want to run if from your own PC.

Grr.

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Posted by gmrkr5

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 12:07 pm to CAD703X

read that privacy agreement

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Posted by Korkstand

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 12:07 pm to CAD703X

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Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich.

OwnCloud

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Posted by Hopeful Doc

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 12:19 pm to CAD703X

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Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich.

You're probably right there. Consider, then, a high-ish end (consumer, not business) VPN router if your devices allow for such connections in conjunction with a "home server" (in quotes because you can just use any windows computer and do some pretty decent fileshares for access purposes). Your uplink, of course, will be your limiting factor.

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Posted by CubsFanBudMan

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 12:29 pm to CAD703X

Get a router that has a USB port and connect an external hard drive to it.

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Posted by TigerinATL

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Posted on 7/9/14 at 12:29 pm to CAD703X

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Personal ftp sounds messy and expensive and not very feature rich. I've managed my own iis servers in the past so I know what a pita this is if you want to run if from your own PC.

Western Digital sells a personal cloud drive that comes complete with mobile apps to let you host your own cloud LINK

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