I want to move from MS onedrive to my own hosted remote accessible server using linux. What are my options?

[kojack]

I want to move from Onedrive services to hosting my own server which I can access from anywhere on my pc and android deivces.  What are the best free options?

[Aaron44126]

If you're just talking about getting to your own files, a Linux server with SFTP enabled should be fine? I have a box in my house, just running standard Ubuntu Server, with SMB enabled for local access and SSH/SFTP exposed to the greater Internet (open port at the router), and a dynamic DNS name so that I can get to it from "anywhere" without having to know the IP address. I have taken additional security measures like not using the default port and requiring key-based authentication.

 

For accessing stuff from my phone, there are a number of apps that can "speak" SFTP and allow access to those files. I use nPlayer to access videos that I have saved to play remotely, for example.

 

For accessing from my laptop, I prefer to use SMB instead of SFTP to get a real sort of LAN file share experience. I have autossh set up to maintain a persistent connection to the "server", and it includes a SSH tunneling configuration so that I can get remote access to the SMB share. (This is a little tricky to pull off on Windows, since it will grab port 445 for the local SMB service and also doesn't like alternate ports for SMB, but pretty easy on macOS or Linux.)

 

This is all fine for getting to your own stuff or working with a small number of people, if you don't mind going through the process of understanding it to the point of having it set up and working. It's not the solution if you're looking for something more like a real cloud storage experience (pretty web GUI, share files with others with email links, etc.).

[kojack]

Well, I really want something that will work like onedrive but hosted locally but accessible via the interweb.  LIke, when I take a photo with my phone, it snycs to my NAS, wherever I am. Just for one example.