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ownCloud 4 releasedownCloud 4 releasedPosted May 22, 2012 18:52 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670)In reply to: ownCloud 4 released by cabrilo Parent article: ownCloud 4 released
This kind of application is really better suited for thin, light servers that you keep on your home network. Especially when you store large media files such as movies and music. Storage is really cheap at home, just connect as many sata-disks as you'd like.
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ownCloud 4 released Posted May 23, 2012 12:13 UTC (Wed) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>This kind of application is really better suited for thin, light servers that you keep on your home network. Especially when you store large media files such as movies and music. Storage is really cheap at home, just connect as many sata-disks as you'd like.
I couldn't disagree more.
This is exactly the kind of project which is least suited to storage on a home network; the appeal of cloud-storage is that it's always available, from anywhere, even if your house is struck by lightning while burning down, *and* you don't have to maintain your own server infrastructure.
ownCloud 4 released Posted May 24, 2012 13:25 UTC (Thu) by job (guest, #670) [Link]
Centrally hosted data storage may have better availability, but the cost is prohibitive. A home user today stores lots of large movies and photo archives which is better stored on the cheapest storage there is. There are plenty of good remote backup systems and users could even backup other users' data, which is where projects such as owncloud can help.
ownCloud 4 released Posted May 24, 2012 13:43 UTC (Thu) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870) [Link]
> Centrally hosted data storage may have better availability, but the cost is prohibitive.
Yes, as soon as you go over the 50GB limit cloud backup space starts to cost real money (at least for endusers small budgets). Being able to plug a cheap USB disk into your WLAN router and use that as webdav is nice and cheap if you can live with the kind of reliability it gives.
> users could even backup other users' data, which is where projects such as owncloud can help.
Isn't that what things like Wuala do? a P2P backup sytem?
ownCloud 4 released Posted Jun 9, 2012 9:47 UTC (Sat) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link]
According to wiki, the p2p aspect is being discontinued. And it was and is proprietary, and therefore untrustworthy for encryption.
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