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Barron Cove

A file harbor that lives on your server. Give your team, your family, or your clients a place to drop files, pull files, and share them out — without renting that privilege from a cloud company every month.

free · self-hosted Laravel 13 + SQLite single-folder install no telemetry runs files.sbarron.com

Dogfood: files.sbarron.com runs this build — we use it ourselves.

files.yourcompany.com
Barron Cove grid view with image thumbnails and the upload queue

grid view — real thumbnails, three uploads just landed

Uploads that just take it

Drag a file, ten files, or a whole folder tree onto the window — structure preserved, three at a time in parallel, a progress bar per file, and collisions renamed instead of clobbered.

Share links you control

Any file or folder becomes a public link — with a password if you want one, an expiry if you need one, and a hit counter either way. Revoke it any time. Folder shares bundle themselves into a zip.

files.yourcompany.com/s/…
A public Barron Cove share page for a photo, with download button

People, with fences

Admins and members. Scope a member to one folder and that folder is their whole world — uploads, searches, and shares can't leave it. Disable an account without deleting the person's files.

A trash can, not a trapdoor

Deletes go to trash and come back with one click, to the folder they left. Purge when you mean it. Every action — login, upload, share, restore — lands in an audit log with a name, a time, and an IP.

files.yourcompany.com
Barron Cove activity log listing logins, uploads, shares with IPs

Get Barron Cove

One folder, one SQLite file, any box with PHP 8.3+ and nginx. Unzip, composer install, php artisan migrate, add your admin, done — the README walks every step. It's yours after that: no license server, no phoning home.