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OwnCloud, views?

LeeLee Veteran

I was looking at Owncloud as a more private place to store some files. Anyone tried it recently? Views on it?

Thanks

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  • It is good. I think a lot of people are using it. However you can also use AjaxXplorer, it is also nice

  • I like it so far, almost the same as using dropbox from their web client. my only grip with it is that you can't generate public links from windows in a synced folder. Built in photo, pdf, video, and text editor make it really useful.

    Mine is hosted on the Storage VPS @FlipHost posted on LEB and i was lucky enough to jump on it.

  • Awmusic12635Awmusic12635 Member, Host Rep

    @PcJamesy Impressive that you got one. They sold out quite fast. I hope it is working well for you?

  • @Fliphost said:
    PcJamesy Impressive that you got one. They sold out quite fast. I hope it is working well for you?

    only issues i had, but it was an owncloud specific issue. once i got incontact with your suppot you set me up with 64bit distro.

    @W1V_Lee there are a few other issues if your not on a 64bit OS such as file usage not calculation properly but once i switched worked fine.

  • LeeLee Veteran

    Any particular linux distro it runs best on?

  • i have one on ubuntu and one on centos, both run the same.

  • NeoNeo Banned

    If you want to have a free owncloud Account just ask me, Located in Germany/Australia with SSL ;D

  • LeeLee Veteran

    Thanks but I am looking at it for more privacy. I will have it on my own server which nobody else accesses.

  • @Neo, I would like to have one.

  • NeoNeo Banned

    Send me PN with Location...

  • Do any of you guys have experience with ownCloud and large amounts of files?

    I've read a lot of criticism on ownCloud lately, especially on the sync client's inefficiency.

  • I was running ownCloud on a 128mb Ram OvZ from QuickPacket. Ran great for about 5 months until one day the database was corrupted. I noticed with a large amount of files mySQL was a little overwhemled at times and needed to be restarted. Not sure if that would be an issue on a larger VPS or not. Lesson learned ... don't install it in the same database you run your website off of!

  • I've got Owncloud running on a BuyVM Storage box that is running great. Very simply to set up.

    I'm about to set it up on a Fliphost 250GB VM, which I anticipate will run equally as great. That Fliphost VM has been real solid so far :)

    Got me a Backupsy 500GB to run incremental backups for the two aforementioned VMs with rsnapshot.

  • It's a good concept, but in my case it has proven to be horribly immature and can't be considered a real Dropbox alternative.

    I switched to BitTorrent Sync and use AjaXplorer as WebUI.

  • @salakis said:
    It's a good concept, but in my case it has proven to be horribly immature and can't be considered a real Dropbox alternative.

    I switched to BitTorrent Sync and use AjaXplorer as WebUI.

    BitTorrent sync seems interesting but still a little immature. No mobile, few options.

    Could you tell me why you think ownCloud is immature and why it's not a Dropbox alternative?

  • @mpkossen said:
    Could you tell me why you think ownCloud is immature and why it's not a Dropbox alternative?

    Well, first of all, the desktop client seems to be unreasonably slow in the local network and it always uploads the whole (changed) file instead of a delta with all the changes.

    Regarding BT Sync, it does have a mobile app by now and in my setup I also can use the AjaXplorer app. It may be true that there aren't that many options, but it should be sufficient for private use. I tend to say that less is more in this case, because BT Sync simply does what it says and does it well.

  • @salakis: never had any issues with conflicts, etc.?

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