I've tried using AeroFS, over and over again to no avail.

I've emailed support numerous times for help - nothing. One response only literally 10 days after a few follow-ups. That's unacceptable.

Their OSX Client doesn't work with Mavericks (10.9) "not supported" was the answer I received.

Syncing is another issue, files not syncing, little explanation as to why, across systems without the Virtual Appliance. Confusing documentation.

I would love to use AeroFS or another private-cloud variant, but the above problems/issues have made both myself and my team very hesitant to ever using or trying this product again.

I think it's important for the team to hear this, and I hope you guys work on what's important to end-users.

One thing i'd be interested in is some sort of trustworthy 3rd party audit, i.e. vouch for no back doors, penetration testing, etc, in both AeroFS and BitTorrent Sync. The last time this made the rounds on HN, I couldn't really find anything on this...has there been any sort of progress on this? I realize both are proprietary/closed source products.

I want something like this for my "family cloud". Are there any open source equivalents except for Owncloud?

I tried out ownCloud as well, and I ended up moving to Seafile (http://seafile.com/en/home/). I don't have any hard numbers to show for comparison, but it was easy to get up and running, everything is open source, and it seems to handle large files better than ownCloud did for me. Currently using it across ubuntu, OS X, iOS, and android, and I haven't had any real issues yet.

Thanks for the Seafile link, that looks perfect for what I've been looking for.

I was surprised to see such a mediocre HN thread on Seafile 6 months ago[1]. Haven't people been clamoring for an open-source Dropbox ever since Dropbox was released?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6051037

Hi Yuri, Do you guys have any plans of releasing or customizing it for end users ? Right now, the website screams like an enterprise use case.

also, was your web page developed in house originally ? Or did you hire professionals ? It looks great !

This is great. Well done.

Is this an advertisement?

In the sense that we're advertising our iOS product launch, yeah :)

I know, I know, this is probably one of my more "PR-ish" blog posts. Not really intentional, but so it goes.

Is this product HIPAA compliant?

I'd be interested in this too...I deal with a lot of projects where researchers have to handle this sort of data.