[Owncloud] My feedback about ownCloud 5

[Tornóci László]

On 06/05/2013 04:20 PM, Jakub Moscicki wrote:
> Hi Laszlo et all,
>
> I think it is very useful to exchange experiences and I would like to learn from yours...
>
> Would you mind sharing how many users do you have and what is the scale of the use (files, file sizes, daily transfers)? Are all your users in one site or are they distributed?
>
> What kind of configuration are you running server-side? And do you possibly know if you have many client platforms on your system?
>
> I am very puzzled because it appears that different people have radically different experiences - such as shown in this email thread - and I wonder where this comes from. Maybe there is some server side configuration that works better then others…  or maybe different scale or set of client platforms...
>
> Many thanks,
>
> kuba

Hi kuba,

I have OC 5.0.6 on RHEL 6.4, mysql 5.1.69, php 5.3.3. Authentication is 
against 389 Directory Server (LDAP). This is a new service, with only 
about 80 users (with little IT knowledge - employees of a medical 
university). Usage is very modest yet, I only have 2 users with > 10 GB 
of files. People mostly use it as a file server replacement. Most access 
is through the web interface, some people use NetDrive on windows for 
webdav access. Only a couple of people use syncing (I don't encourage 
them to use it - I'm waiting for the next release that promises not to 
generate conflict files).


					Yours: Laszlo

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> On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Tornóci László
>   <tornoci.laszlo at med.semmelweis-univ.hu>
>   wrote:
>
>> On 06/05/2013 03:44 PM, Christian Dähn wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm CIO, too and have the same problems: I like OC and it's concept
>>> but can't use it in production environments, yet...
>>>
>>> Currently I'm stucked to the 4.x release and follow this mailinglist
>>> to findout, if the big problems with the sync clients are fixed and
>>> the long term awaited encryption is available...
>>>
>>> Sadly my OC server is not used for over an half year now by our
>>> users, because of serious bugs of the client (thousands of conflict files,
>>> no sync and hughe traffic because of endless loops inside the client)...
>>>
>>> I would love to see these major problems solved and sometimes I'm
>>> a little bit frustrated when I see, that devs spend their time make the
>>> user interface more fancy etc.
>>>
>>> ciao,
>>> Chris
>>
>> My experience is different. By the time I started to offer my users "production service" version 5 became available. Yes, there are some really frustrating problems, like you cannot tell the program which addressbook to put a new contact to (makes the use of multiple addressbooks and sharing of them impossible).
>>
>> But in my experience the developers are quite helpful, and usually they respond to issues reported on github fast. They do a lot more than just making the interface more fancy.
>>
>> I've been following the development of OC for about half a year now, and I am quite impressed by the pace of improvement.
>>
>> 					Yours: Laszlo
>>
>>>