[Owncloud] scalable ownCloud setup for university department

[Susinthiran Sithamparanathan]

I'm very interested in this too as i work for a University which doesn't
have any Dropbox-alike service for the employees or students.


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Simon Kainz <simon at familiekainz.at> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am currently working on setting up OwnCloud for TU Graz. First install
> will only be for employees (~ 3.500 users), eventually we will scale it up
> an offer it for students to. I hopefully will get this running during march
> so maybe I can report something concering scalability.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zitat von Alessandro Cosentino <cosenal at gmail.com>:
>
>
>  Hi Frank and Jos,
>> I got a private reply about this subject from Simon Opitz of
>> isx-software.de
>> .
>> He is figuring out more details about some tests he is running on a 60k+
>> users setup.
>> I'll ask him to reply to the ml once the results of the tests are ready.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alessandro
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
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Susinthiran Sithamparanathan
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