Overall Satisfaction with ownCloud
I use OwnCloud for my personal documents. I want to keep my data and the corporate data on a separate system since there is no reason to use expensive corporate resources for my own.
With OwnCloud, I have the exact same enterprise level feature that we have with the corporate system but for my own personal needs.
I share documents and folders with my friends and family, browse my online pictures, listen to music, edit documents, in a very secure manner.
With OwnCloud, I have the exact same enterprise level feature that we have with the corporate system but for my own personal needs.
I share documents and folders with my friends and family, browse my online pictures, listen to music, edit documents, in a very secure manner.
- Many plugins, for video, audio, documents, integrations, etc.
- Very secure, including end-user file encryption.
- Open, I can federate with my friends' OwnCloud and share/backup documents.
- You host your own data, maybe it's better to use an hosted version of OwnCloud to keep the files at a different location.
- The WebUI can be very slow sometimes.
- Since I don't use corporate space for my own data, I spare very expensive gigs of data!
- Because it's open source and self hosted, I can have an enterprise grade cloud for free.
- Slow Internet means slow performance. If you host your OwnCloud on a slow connectivity, you will have a lot of issues, and it can cost way more than a hosted version.
ownCloud is one of the only self-hosted solutions worth it. It is open source and free, meaning that anyone with a Linux VM or an old laptop can host its own feature-rich cloud server. Many all-in-one firewalls will mix OwnCloud and CrashPlan, joining document management and backup. I backup my ownCloud using CrashPlan to my dad's computer so I can restore files in case of a crash.