[dba-Tech] Your own personal Cloud

Hans-Christian Andersen hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Mar 8 09:16:31 CST 2013


Hi Mark,

My pogoplug mounts its drive like an ordinary local drive. I use it for 3 reasons primarily:

1. File storage in a shared location. I can now access these files from any machine any where in the world.

2 File sharing. Need to send a very big file to someone or a photo album? You can just share it directly from the pogoplug in terms of a web link. It's also easy to manage what things you've shared.

3. DNLA. The pogoplug device supports dnla, so it appears as a media server on the network and so your media box, like my playstation3 picks up its presence and let's me stream movies, pictures and music from it.

- Hans


On 2013-03-08, at 2:06 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Hans,
> 
> On the basis that 1) you have to drag and drop and 2) you cannot drag
> folders, what do you use Pogoplug for ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 8 March 2013 00:48, Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>wrote:
> 
>> Looks like owncloud has progressed a bit since last i checked. I'll try it
>> out on a vm and, if its stable, might throw it on my server. I'm otherwise
>> quite content with my pogoplug though.
>> 
>> - Hans
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013-03-07, at 4:38 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
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