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Can you elaborate on the problems you found with those providers? I mean, I don't imagine running OwnCloud would be unfeasible on a Raspberry Pi or anything (I
by rnovak 11y ago
Can you elaborate on the problems you found with those providers?
I mean, I don't imagine running OwnCloud would be unfeasible on a Raspberry Pi or anything (I can't speak to the performance of that), but you'd need to set up Dynamic DNS if you're planning on running it from your home, as well as a way to traverse the NAT. You'd also be limited by your upstream bandwidth, and I think most ISP's actually "forbid" running a server.
as far as deploying it on a VPS (virtual private server, so like an Amazon AWS instance, Linode, etc), you'd be limited by their TOS, etc, but I honestly think that's the best option. OwnCloud looks to be pretty simple to actually setup though, but I guess I'd have to try it out to checkout performance.
As far as I'm aware though, and as much as I could google, there's going to be some setup on your part.
So yeah, if you could elaborate a little more about what about each option didn't provide, we might be able to steer you closer to something that's acceptable.
- anderspitman 11y agoI'm fine with handling devops on the server setup. It's also ok to do most of the moving around of files directly on the filesystem, not through the web interface. OwnCloud was just too fat and slow. The functionality I need in theory should be runnable on a Raspberry Pi (although I'm using a more powerful Odroid C1+). The only computationally heavy part would be generating thumbnails which is an up front cost. Everything else is just coordinated file serving.
- rnovak 11y agoWere you trying to run OwnCloud on your Odroid (Neat looking device BTW, I might have to try that out)? I tried running that on a 20 dollar/month VPS from Linode, and it seems to work/perform great. We can continue over email if you'd prefer, since I'm also interested in setting something like this up (me at robert-novak.com).
- anderspitman 11y agoh5ai is awesome. The interface is fine. The problems I had were that the process of generating thumbnails is pretty opaque. It appears to start generating them when a directory is first visited through a browser, via a background task. However, it seemed like maybe the process stopped if you closed the page before it finished. So it became sort of this dance where I'd leave the browser open and monitor Top to see when the process finished. But even then sometimes it would freeze and thumbnails and previews would never load. Also it doesn't appear to do on-demand loading, so if you have a ton of photos in one directory it takes forever to load. The single and multi download features are perfect though.
- anderspitman 11y agoMediagoblin is ok for presentation but has basically no download features.