When comparing Newfang Cloud vs Seafile, the Slant community recommends Seafile for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted cloud storage solutions?” Seafile is ranked 1st while Newfang Cloud is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Seafile is:
Seafile community edition is licensed under GPLv2 with source code available on [GitHub](https://github.com/haiwen/seafile).
Specs
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Pros
Pro Transparent and Simple Billing
I am currently using it for free under Alpha release, but the pricing is straight forward with billing for storage and download, no unnecessary list of unbundled API' are billed.
All the usage is logged on the blockchain that can be audited against the bill.
Pro Privacy Focused and Transparent
All the files are encrypted and access is logged on the blockchain that I can verify. Only those with access can view the files.
Pro Good for video streaming & hosting
Due to the distributed nature of servers, video streaming is performant and better than current providers. Quite cheaper too. Files are downloaded from an edge network.
Pro Very easy to integrate
SDK just has a couple of endpoints with good documentation
Pro Free and open source
Seafile community edition is licensed under GPLv2 with source code available on GitHub.
Pro Client-side encryption
All files are transferred with AES 128 bit encryption.
Cons
Con New to the market
The service is relatively new, but migration shouldn't be a problem
Con Requires maintenance
You have to manually keep the server and clients up to date.