[Owncloud] scalable ownCloud setup for university department

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 01.03.2012, at 11:52, Jos Poortvliet <jos at opensuse.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 13:34:22 Alessandro Cosentino wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> the Faculty Computing Facility group at my university doesn't allow
>> the installation of the Dropbox client on the supported machines,
>> because of security and privacy concerns. On a note on their webpage,
>> they write that "they are investigating the possibility of providing a
>> local equivalent". I wanted to propose ownCloud as alternative to
>> Dropbox, but I first want to know how scalable it is.
>> Has anyone tried an ownCloud setup with 100+ users?
> 
> I didn't myself, but I've heard that it is being done - with far greater 
> numbers even. So it should surely be possible... Maybe somebody else will 
> response.
> 
> :D

There are in-deed organization which run ownCloud with 1000+ users.
Let´s me know if you need help with proposing this to your university. :-)


Frank