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owncloud on an LEB
Chanced upon Owncloud http://owncloud.org/ when I was looking for an easy way to set up my own WEBDAV storage space. Has anyone tried this on a low end box? Tried it on a 128MB OpenVZ Alienhost VPS and it was sluggish - not sure what the minimum requirements are for an acceptable experience.
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It's part of KDE, do you really expect it to be anything other than sluggish?
Haven't used that one but I could have sworn we talked about other methods. Unfortunately with 'cloud' in the footer of nearly every page, it makes it hard to find. (Ten pages back on google and I can't find it. I do know we talked about doing such generally.)
To be honest, I'm getting to the point that I dislike clouds. One of the first things you learn about web page optimization is to limit how many different sources parts of a web page are coming from, especially if they're off site. At the very least, you have to deal with a DNS lookup that adds time to page generation. It's also a problem when the outside cloud is down or sluggish.
I know back in my wp.com moderator days, they gave I believe Amazon a try and moved 80% of the image content over there while keeping the top 20% local. I believe they moved it 100% back after a few months. Not sure what the ratio is currently although last I knew, they were still using cloud storage for uploads but I believe most of it is still local on their own servers.
I get better performance with installing memcache if what we're running supports it. But that's just me and what I see with what we're doing.
You could try clustering up the VPS's (LEB's) and making a cluster, Which I think is a cloud ?
Try Cloudmin or Virtualmin, I think they have options to cluster up VPS's.
EDIT : I found this http://pcplus.techradar.com/node/3207
If you are in the mood to try something try that ^^
We discussed Cloudmin once but there wasn't much to it:
http://v2.lowendtalk.com/questions/7752/why-dont-more-providers-use-cloudmin
@drmike : Thanks for pointing that out, that's true, that thread did not have much to it...
We had a length thread about setting up a cloud. I'll look for it later when I have time.
@drmike Cloudmin and ownCloud are similar but not the same. Cloudmin is a control panel and ownCloud is a webdav dropbox-like service :P
Agree
Thanks maxecloo for getting the discussion back on track.
So does anyone have inputs?
I've been looking for a solution like this for a while. I installed it on a vmware vps from VMStorm with 128MB of ram and it's working petty well. I chose to use mysql instead of sqlite and the memory usage is about 40MB running nginx, php-fpm and mysql.
I'm using owncloud on a securedragon vps, and works fine. Server is nginx and and i'm mostrly accessing via a browser and not webdav.
Owncloud 3.0 is out. Updated mine without a issue. Fast, stable and really light on memory and cpu.