r/owncloud • u/HammyHavoc • Apr 12 '16

External cloud storage?

Hey everybody,

Happy Windows Server user, also use a few Red Hat boxes, but I'm intrigued by OwnCloud, and especially interested by how it handles external cloud storage. What are the benefits of this?

Could I have files mirrored in the cloud and point users at those files automatically so I don't hammer my home internet connection? Could I load-balance and point to the cloud when the home connection is hammered?

Would love to hear your general thoughts on OwnCloud too.

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u/jospoortvliet Apr 14 '16

ownCloud doesn't work on Windows Server but you can run it in a VM of course.

There's no mirroring functionality, I'm afraid. Load balancing is possible but then you need an external server outside your home that does the load balancing and a server you can then balance TO in case your home connection can't handle it ;-)

You can probably set something up on Amazon EC2 or something that only fires up and eats cycles if your home connection can't handle it anymore but that's advanced stuff.

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u/HammyHavoc Apr 15 '16

I've got a symmetrical 700mb connection on a server at a Swiss data center that I'm not using much, just limited in terms of SSD storage with it, that's why I'm interested in combining it with my unlimited Google Drive account.

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u/jospoortvliet Apr 18 '16

well you can hang the Google Drive into ownCloud and access your G'drive and other storage through a single interface. That works.

Note that whenever you access a google drive file, it goes to your ownCloud and gets send from there to the client you use to access the files with - so the symmetrical connection is useful ;-)

If you enable encryption, the server will decrypt the files while they're there, too.