[dba-Tech] Your own personal Cloud

If you are on a budget, have your own business, intranet, want to have a
secure and reliable Cloud (and that doesn't necessarily mean being
financially tied Amazon, Microsoft and others, never knowing if your backups
have been done or the site is being maintained) 

So why not build your own for family, friends and/or business. Here is a
very viable option that you can design on your own equipment:  

https://owncloud.org/

Check out the features and the control you will have. :-)

And why not install it on your Debian/Ubuntu servers/stations:

http://smashingweb.info/owncloud-4-released-install-owncloud-on-ubuntu-12-04
/

Terminal alert: You are going to have to key in a few lines on the terminal
(command line interface) But Alt-Ctrl-T, cut and paste from the web site
should be as hard as it gets. 

Note you will need Apache, MySQL and PHP5 for the base setup. Though the
install from the website might be very straight forward it might be best to
take no chances and previously install the latest greatest versions of the
pre-requisites:

sudo apt-get install taskel
sudo taskel install lamp-server
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
sudo apt-get install php5-gd

Now you are good to start with the suggested installation method and if you
are using the Ubuntu 12.04 Linux.

Oh yes and most important. You have clients for Windows and Mac as well as
Linux...and for the cherry on the cake...the clients runs on all your
mobiles too.

Jim