Has Anyone Used OwnCloud?

[Eric Shubert]

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"
>> <crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com
>> <mailto:crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com>> 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
>>
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>> ----- Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
>> <mailto:mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>> wrote: -----
>> >
>> > I was googling "how to build your own cloud storage", and ran across
>> > owncloud.org <http://owncloud.org>. A glorified webdav server.
>> Does anyone have any
>> > experience
>> > with it?
>> >
>> > Mark
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