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I was using it to deploy my web apps, and keep my 2 servers in sync. But lately i am facing issues with it. Once in a while my bittorrent sync on server shows No device connected, even if my local machine is online. Thankfully i am using ec2, so spinning up a new instance from few days old AMI is easy and usually btsync starts to work again on the new server. Now looking into different solutions.

A commenter on my blog post suggested Syncthing (http://syncthing.net/) as an alternative.

I remember seeing this earlier. Looks good. But i am looking towards solutions which can be integrated with our version control. Maybe Chef or Puppet

Have a look at Docker (http://www.docker.com/), I was introduced to it recently and it looks like a powerful yet simple alternative to Chef or Puppet.

Docker is linux only, and we are a windows shop. So docker not an alternative for me

I am looking into CD tools rather than simple sync tools. It's time to grow.

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