Question: Instead of Nextcloud, why not use a FTPS server with an nice client?
I genuinely courious to know, why has this very old and established protocol lost over cloud solutions like Nextcloud (or even Google Drive)?
note: the question is for both FTPs or sFTP
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In my opinion, they do different things.
SFTP/SCP are great ways of transferring files between computers. I prefer rsync for most things because it can resume transfers and checksum results. I'd never use FTPS because SFTP/SCP comes with SSH, and why run a separate service? SSHFS is another way to use SSH to transfer files (it mounts a remote file system to your local computer so you can use all your normal file management tools).
NextCloud (and similar) do a bunch of additional things:
If SFTP does everything you need, that's awesome. Use it. :-)
Thanks for your answer, answers my question perfectly!