Syncthing Server

Syncthing is a tool written in Go to keep files synchronised between computers. It's decentralized, meaning instead of syncing to a server, your computers can find each other on the network and sync amongst themselves. It can work over the internet as well, although I don't use it that way.

Prior to Syncthing, I used NextCloud, which runs on a web server. I used this to keep some directories on several computers in my home network synchronized. It worked, and I actually still have an install I point my phone too (although Syncthing has an Android app as well). However, sometimes it would be slow, particularly with a lot of small files. The server also stores all of its files in its own directory, and depends on a database (I have used both MariaDB and SQLite).

While I like the idea of not having to have a dedicated server in the sense of NextCloud, I do have a NAS I would like to keep the directories I sync on.