You can check out our personal cloud software Tonido (http://www.tonido.com). It organizes all your music, video collection and makes it available from anywhere. We have very good mobile apps for iOS, Android and even for Windows 8. You don't need to take our word. Just check the app ratings and reviews in app stores.

Tonido sucks. Nothing but issues and problems with it and support is non-existent. Stay away!

I wanted a free TonidoPlug but no one read my mind and sent it to me for free, so they're just awful.

you don't even need tonidoplug for it. If you have an old PC or Linux box and you can mount your NAS containing your music, you can just install the free version of Tonido Desktop and stream all of it.

you just created an account to say this :). Looks like we are getting popular. Please check our forum, our community and make an informed decision.

Dropbox for Business is still a public cloud service. The reality is we live in information economy where information and intellectual property is a first order citizens for any business. So storing your organization data to a public cloud (whether it is dropbox or some other service) is equivalent to giving keys to your organization's treasure trove. Also Dropbox being a high profile target, if the service hacked for some reason, it puts your organization data at risk in inadvertently.

We have built Tonido FileCloud (http://www.getfilecloud.com) to specifically address this use case where organizations can self host their own Enterprise File Share and Sync platform.

Mainly for enterprises who want to keep control over data and IP assets. You will be surprised to know how many enterprises need a solution like this.

Gates

At Tonido, we got a following mail from a customer a week back.

" We are sorry but recent developments and news in regard to the NSA PRISM program and the Patriot Act have made us decide no longer to use any cloud solution developed or hosted by a US company. You can remove our information from your database."

Even though, Our Tonido software is a self hosted one and totally orthogonal to Google Drive or dropbox in principle and in operation, we do get the shaft unfairly.

At this point I think it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that your company might be forced to incorporate hidden backdoors into your software should the NSA ever decide that your customer's data is of value to them.

Not your fault, sure. But that's the reality.

We gotta say this. We have never been a fan of pg's essays.

BUT THIS ONE IS GEM. Probably the Best. Also remember, even after doing all this there is no guarantee that your startup will succeed. But this one has all the optimal paths.

Using tonido, one can replicate 2 plugs in different locations.

Don't take us wrong. We wish them good luck. Just pointing out it is not a technology problem. The problem is to handle complexity when you try to do a lot of things.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Tonido solution requires me to spend money to sync more than 2GB, and Plug does not.

All these are already done by our Tonido (http://www.tonido.com) and TonidoPlug project and it is available and it works.

If you allow me a humble suggestion as a customer, you should use this as inspiration to rethink your product pages:

    the new, Ultimate low-power, low-cost home, small
    business server and NAS powered by Tonido platform

versus

    Plug makes your computer bigger.
    Make all your devices one.

These guys do have a slightly above healthy amount of fantasy in their copy, but it's a much easier sale.

You are right. They have done a great job on the copy.

Also: Your website is hard to navigate. I wanted to see how much it costs, and I couldn't find a direct link. I clicked a buy link and then subsequently found a "go green" link which finally allowed me to see the product.

Just an observation.

Are these still on the old Marvell Armada SoC? I'm still running a Dreamplug as a gateway/mini server and it's hamstrung by everything running over USB.

How do I buy one? I can't see a buy button on any of the TonidoPlug pages.

I also found it difficult. On the product description page, there's a green icon in the upper-right that says "Get Tonido Plug". That icon is a link to the purchase page.

This specific instance in the screenshot has been fixed (this is the second time). Basically, in this specific instance if the "Login" button is changed to localize to a specific keyword "Connexion" as part of french translation, it shows up. No other keyword triggers it.. and no way to find out what the heck chrome wants.

It is like playing proverbial whack-a-mole. Every update of chrome can potentially change their "heuristic" that thinks it has "found" a phishing attack.. and we have to scramble to see what the heck caused it and fix it.

This would be funny if it wasn't so detrimental to a business. I will get the dev to recreate this on dev1 and post it.