Filestash
Web file manager connecting to FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Git, Dropbox, and Google Drive
Overview
Filestash is a self-hosted web file manager that acts as a universal frontend for a wide variety of storage backends including FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Git repositories, Amazon S3, Minio, Dropbox, and Google Drive. It provides a unified browser-based interface for navigating, uploading, downloading, and editing files regardless of where they are stored. Filestash includes a built-in text/code editor and media viewer. It deploys via Docker with minimal configuration and supports plugin-based authentication.
Where it falls short of Dropbox
- Advanced features (video transcoding, full-text search) are locked behind a commercial license
- No real-time collaborative editing; file editing is single-user
- No desktop sync client; all interaction is through the web interface
- User and permission management is basic; not suitable as a primary cloud storage replacement for teams
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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