[Owncloud] File sync in large scale (# of clients, files)

[Michael Grosser]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Puzzlet Chung <puzzlet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build a system for distributing large dynamic contents
> (as big as Wikipedia) over ownCloud.
>
> In this system, there will be a single server maintaining the whole
> contents replicated from the original database, and anyone on the
> Internet can access the server with read-only access.
>
> My questions are:
>
>  * Is there a P2P implementation for distributing files over ownCloud?
Not that I know of. It's not p2p really but, you could distribute
files with help of the external storage feature and bind different
owncloud together via webdav. Not sure if that's performant enough and
works as expected.
>  * How would ownCloud scale over thousands of (anonymous) users?
Depends on your setup. With the demo.owncloud.org instance we have a
few thousand pageviews per day and it's not read only access.
Read only access could be quite alright. But I would definitely advice
to use Varnish as caching server and cache most of the read only
requests and static files. With Varnish you should be able to handle
quite a lot anonymous users. If you need to scale up more? Probably
best to use a second Varnish server and load balance between them. I
think the bottleneck with anonymous users and varnish won't be the
owncloud backend.
If you have more infos on your setup I like to hear about it.

Cheers Michael
>
> Thank you.
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