
Self-Hosted File Transfer: 17 Irresistible Reasons You’ll Never Use Cloud Drives Again
I’m gonna be straight with you—last month a 9 GB 4K video project almost broke me. We chopped it into e-mailable chunks, begged a “premium” cloud drive to hurry up, even tried the ol’ sneaker-net shuffle with a USB stick. Nothing felt right. Then I discovered self-hosted file transfer. I spun up a Docker container, sent my editor a magic link, and—boom—he pulled the entire thing at gigabit speed straight from my browser. No middlemen, no storage caps, no soul-crushing waits. That night flipped my workflow on its head, and in the next few minutes I’m gonna flip yours too. 1. The Pain of Public Cloud Sharing Cloud drives started as life-savers, but boy have the strings multiplied. Throttled free plans,...