Why Rocket Lift Said Goodbye Dropbox, Hello BitTorrent Sync

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http://rocketlift.com/hello-bittorrent-sync/

Just last week, all of us here at Rocket Lift HQ started using BitTorrent Sync to replace our Dropbox subscription. If you aren’t familiar, BitTorrent Sync is software that allows us to share files among all our computers so that the most current version of a file is available to everyone whenever they need it. No email attachments, no thumb drives, no messenger pigeons.And this is really important to us because, as a 100% distributed company where “Rocket Lift HQ” is any place with internet access, we don’t have a hard-wired network to store files on at a big fancy office building.

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We try to do everything we can to be responsible stewards of all our clients data. To that end, we have been looking for a way to end our dependency on Dropbox for a few reasons:

• Dropbox is very convenient, but if something goes wrong with Dropbox’s centralized servers, then we lose access to the canonical copy of our files, and everyone’s local copies risk entering a split-brain state.
• We can’t access our files on Dropbox when we’re offline.
• Dropbox’s has access to our files, and can (and does) open them.
• Dropbox doesn’t have as much flexibility for each individual to organize the data in his or her own way; you’re stuck

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This post isn’t a shining endorsement of BitTorrent Sync. The software has been difficult to learn, especially for the members of our staff who aren’t as technically adept as the others.

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