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Syncing without a server

Cloud hosting services like OneDrive and Google Drive have become ever more popular as a way to share files between users and devices as well as a kind of de-facto backup system for sensitive files. The problems with these services are threefold: 1) they cost money; 2) they have limited space; and 3) you’re trusting your files to a third party.

Resilio was built to solve that trilemma. It’s a tool built on BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing technology, and it allows you to sync your files across multiple devices without needing a third party or a server of any kind.

This way, you can build a kind of peer-to-peer sharing and backup network, without paying a cent. You can back up

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