[Owncloud] scalable ownCloud setup for university department

[Alessandro Cosentino]

A small update on this: I filed a request on the tracker system of my
faculty computing facility department.
They will discuss it and let me know.

Alessandro

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Susinthiran Sithamparanathan
<chesusin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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