I'm with you, Michael. I expect to see things moving in the direction of private, personal, self-hosted clouds. The Personal Server counterpart of what happened with the Personal Computer. When we build it, they will come. -- -Eric 'shubes' On 06/20/2012 11:45 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I too am curious how ymmv with owncloud - I'd looked into it a bit ago > when shopping cost/features of various providers, but it seemed clunky > still. Cost is a big issue why I don't now, especially when I probably > have better infrastructure in my house than most cloud providers. > > Plus, any public "cloud" services scare me, as really I see them as > inevitable they'd be cracked or worse, go out megaupload-style for > government, media cartels, and ambulance-chasing lawyers fighting over > who's harvesting data first. Having worked for enough service providers > and enterprise, I've seen what incidents doen't make it public, and that > scares me for my data even more. Security concerns me more than > performance, but both are important. > > What I need is something to global sync work files, person files, media, > all the good stuff that really never needs to see the light of day. It > sits behind my home network already replicated a number of ways, really > just need it easily available across platforms grandma style with a high > level of security. > > I'm assuming dropbox and like have caveats too, but from what I've seen > it's slicker than anything else, especially when it'd be nice to pull up > a config file at home to look at on my phone/tablet while away at work > and without firing up a laptop. Just rather keep the data at home where > I know it's plenty safe already. > > Slight reference anecdote: a guy at a company I was working at (a cisco > ccie mind you) was fired when one of our full router configs was found > on pastebin and investigated back to him. He was using some kind of > "secure cloud sync" app on his apple product to work from that ended up > dumping it on pastebin full public read and swears he had no idea. Opps. > > Fairly recent reminder of why I don't put my data in any cloud I didn't > build. > > -mb > > > On 06/20/2012 06:00 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: >> Crawford, >> >> Thanks for your email. I have read conflicting reports in some forums >> that the file transfers (backing up user data) are slow. Is this true? >> Also, are there sync clients for different OSes that automate client >> backups? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> >> On Jun 20, 2012 12:24 PM, "Crawford Rainwater" >> > > wrote: >> >> Mark: >> >> Linux ETC has set ownCloud up for a client and has it as a "demo >> site" on our web server as well. It uses SabreDAV in the backend, >> so a little different than the typical WebDAV for API calls. We are >> still debating offering this as a service as well for general public >> use based on the storage size allocated on a monthly basis. >> >> What else would you like to know? ;-) >> >> --- Crawford >> >> The Linux ETC Company >> 10121 Yates Court >> Westminster, CO 80031 USA >> voice: +1.303.604.2550 >> web: http://www.linux-etc.com >> >> Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. >> Be friendly to the environment by saving paper. >> >> ----- Mark Phillips > > wrote: ----- >> > >> > I was googling "how to build your own cloud storage", and ran across >> > owncloud.org . A glorified webdav server. >> Does anyone have any >> > experience >> > with it? >> > >> > Mark >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss