[Owncloud] Several server instances for one cloud

[~Stack~]

On 06/14/2012 10:43 AM, Trash wrote:
> Hey there,
> I'm planning to set up my own cloud with owncloud… and I was thinking about the following idea:
> Is it possible to create an installation for one cloud on several servers? For example one instance in my local network and one instance on my real server. So when I'm at home I want to access via my local sever and when I'm somewhere else the access via my real server should be quite faster. Of course the instances have to stay in sync.
> Is this possible?

I have been thinking about this quite a bit as well. My family is
scattered over several states and most of them are enjoying and using my
owncloud installation after they saw me use it at a family gathering.
However, I only have so much upload bandwidth. I was thinking about
buying something like a pogoplug or some small Atom system, tossing a
decent sized harddrive in it with owncloud installed, and mailing it to
them. That way they each have an instance that syncs with the others.
Then I hit the very same question you have. What kind of software?

Last Friday about 11pm I had an idea which I have put maybe a grand
total of about 3 hours of research into. So if it is absurd, please let
me know so I don't waste any more time. :) However, I will share what I
am thinking just in case someone else can improve upon the idea (great
thing about opensource, eh? ) :D

I *think* that it should be doable to throw an openstack instance on the
boxes, and link them together letting openstack manage the data with its
Object Storage capability (If I remember correctly they refer to that as
"Swift"). It also has database capability, but I have _just_ started
reading about that so I have no idea if owncloud will interface with it
yet. Also, I found one forum thread saying openstack could run an apache
instance but another thread saying that it only runs the apache instance
inside a compute node. So I am not sure yet about that. I don't see why
the main 'Information As A Service' aspect (they call that Nova)
couldn't handle the website, but I still have a lot to learn.

Anyway, that is the research path I am working on. Hopefully I will get
a chance to play with the software a bit more this weekend. I am hoping
to get it working across a few virtual machines and see what it can do.
I would love feedback if anyone has it.

tl;dr I have had a similar thought and am attempting to solve it with
Openstack.

Good luck!

~Stack~
RHCE

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