(15-12-2018, 03:26 PM)thuban Wrote: +1 for synthing.

For family or rookies, I use framadrop.org or https://transfer.sh/

I didn't know transfer.sh finally managed to stay up. That's a good news!
Sharing files has always been a puzzle to me... There are so many ways to do it, yet there is no "easy" solution that works for all use cases!

I use http://p.iotek.org for ephemeral shares (screenshots, piece of code, tiny tarballs, ...). For anything long-term that's public, I tend to put it on my website, though it's far from ideal.
When it comes to data synchronisation between servers or for my own use, rsync is fine (especially 'cause I have it on my phone as well!). I wrote a wrapper to sync files between multiple nodes.
Syncthing is nice, but has trouble keeping up with lots of data. It also has bugs, so I'd rather not corrupt any data with it. I also find it too complex to use, for the simple thing it is supposed to do.

For sharing data "privately" (eg. family pictures or whatever), I have setup an FTP server. It is definitely not ideal though, for multiple reason.
First of them being that it's not encrypted (though I'm working on that, I just need to sort my shit when it comes to certificates).
Second is that lambda people can't use a computer, and have troubles making connections to an FTP from their computer without assistance.
Third is that FTP is not good for "online" viewing, for example to go through pics of your latest travel with your familly.
Finally, my server currently runs alpine, which lacks some PAM modules to correctly implement virtual users with vsftpd. That is only contextual though, and I plan to wipe this install clean and run an OpenBSD node instead.

It kills me that, so close to 2019, it is still so complex to have someone share a bunch of big files with you...