[wplug] Open-source cloud storage solutions

Justin Smith justin at adminix.net
Tue Aug 5 11:15:05 EDT 2014


Ah, and I almost forgot - when I was looking into setting up a cloud storage 
service for the people here at work, I investigated two other projects that 
seem a whole lot nicer than ownCloud: Seafile[1] and Pydio[2].

Pydio is a very mature and scalable product, but it's probably overkill for a 
personal storage server.

Seafile's interface is very nice, but I found its documentation a little 
confusing. It has group collaboration features such as a personal wiki that 
you may or may not find useful. You might have more luck with it than I did.

My project was eventually scuttled, so that's the extent of the experience I 
got with the two of those.

-- 
*Justin Smith*
GNU/Linux System Administrator

/"Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us 
communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where 
they allow only monopoly."/
/-Richard Stallman/


> Looking for recommendations for people's favorites....  Dropbox is on my
> last nerve, after my "promotional" extra 23 GB of space expired, and
> apparently the lowest-end plan that they will sell me is 100 GB (I never
> got even remotely close to the 23 GB, so that is way overkill...), and
> they want about the same amount of money as it would cost to have a
> whole VPS on Linode....
> 
> My basic requirements are that it has to have a web interface for
> uploading/downloading files, has to have a client to automagically sync
> files on Windows (and Linux if possible), and I'd like something with an
> Android app as well.  I'm aware of ownCloud, and it appears that it
> would do what I want, so I'm considering using that - just looking for
> any "dissenting opinions" or other possibilities.
> 
> --Pat.
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[1] http://seafile.com/en/home/
[2] http://pyd.io/


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