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Choose where to store my information

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thany
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I would like to be able to choose where Sync stores my information. Because it might contain sensitive personal information, people should want to have control over where exactly the data is stored. Right now it seems to be stored in some magical cloud service somewhere in the universe.

So for example, I might want to store it as a file on my GDrive, or as a digest in my Github account, or upload a file to my own server somehow.

For personal information storage, it is absolutely vital that it doesn't go to place where I don't want it to be, and a place that I have a reasonable level of control over.

So, million dollar question: how can I set this up?

I would like to be able to choose where Sync stores my information. Because it might contain sensitive personal information, people should want to have control over where exactly the data is stored. Right now it seems to be stored in some magical cloud service somewhere in the universe. So for example, I might want to store it as a file on my GDrive, or as a digest in my Github account, or upload a file to my own server somehow. For personal information storage, it is absolutely vital that it doesn't go to place where I don't want it to be, and a place that I have a reasonable level of control over. So, million dollar question: how can I set this up?

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Hi, you can set up your own Sync server: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/blob/master/README.rst

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TyDraniu
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Hi, you can set up your own Sync server: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver/blob/master/README.rst

thany
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Thanks mate, that seems like a workable solution. Not the flexibility I was aiming for, but self-hosted is definitely along the lines of what I wanted.