On 06/14/2012 10:43 AM, Trash wrote: > Hey there, > I'm planning to set up my own cloud with owncloud… and I was thinking about > the following idea: > Is it possible to create an installation for one cloud on several servers? > For example one instance in my local network and one instance on my real > server. So when I'm at home I want to access via my local sever and when I'm > somewhere else the access via my real server should be quite faster. Of > course the instances have to stay in sync. > Is this possible?
I have been thinking about this quite a bit as well. My family is scattered over several states and most of them are enjoying and using my owncloud installation after they saw me use it at a family gathering. However, I only have so much upload bandwidth. I was thinking about buying something like a pogoplug or some small Atom system, tossing a decent sized harddrive in it with owncloud installed, and mailing it to them. That way they each have an instance that syncs with the others. Then I hit the very same question you have. What kind of software? Last Friday about 11pm I had an idea which I have put maybe a grand total of about 3 hours of research into. So if it is absurd, please let me know so I don't waste any more time. :) However, I will share what I am thinking just in case someone else can improve upon the idea (great thing about opensource, eh? ) :D I *think* that it should be doable to throw an openstack instance on the boxes, and link them together letting openstack manage the data with its Object Storage capability (If I remember correctly they refer to that as "Swift"). It also has database capability, but I have _just_ started reading about that so I have no idea if owncloud will interface with it yet. Also, I found one forum thread saying openstack could run an apache instance but another thread saying that it only runs the apache instance inside a compute node. So I am not sure yet about that. I don't see why the main 'Information As A Service' aspect (they call that Nova) couldn't handle the website, but I still have a lot to learn. Anyway, that is the research path I am working on. Hopefully I will get a chance to play with the software a bit more this weekend. I am hoping to get it working across a few virtual machines and see what it can do. I would love feedback if anyone has it. tl;dr I have had a similar thought and am attempting to solve it with Openstack. Good luck! ~Stack~ RHCE
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