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Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
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Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#32Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
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Hitting #3 on Hacker News will murder any website which uses shared hosting. It happened to me with Dreamhost, and it got so bad that my website was irrevocably corrupted. Needless to say, I switched away.
HN will definitely cause trouble for shared hosting, but I'd move away from HostGator because they're serving a giant ad for their own service on the 500 error page.
Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#34OwnCloud did not work for the needs of my friend and I. However, I absolutely love Seafile. It sallows for you to share files based on groups and folders.
Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#35Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#36I've been pretty happy with Space Monkey (http://spacemonkey.com) -- 1TB of local and remote backup, $199 for the device and free first year, remote backup $49 after the first year if you want to keep doing it.
And I have access to the full 1TB as if the files were local, even on my measly 120G macbook air, since the filesystem is backed by the network. It's kinda cool.
Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#37> OwnCloud is basically Dropbox, without the data limits and pricing restrictions. There's some pretty huge caveats in the above statement from the article. I switched to ownCloud for a while and then switched back to Dropbox. I switched back to Dropbox for a couple reasons. First, ownCloud is written in PHP and the code (and the plugins you could add on) looked pretty janky. The UI was better than the usual open sou…
OwnCloud + DO or Linode, and your backup problems are solved (more or less).
But then you are paying for the hosting and dealing with the maintenance. At that point is's easier to switch back to Dropbox. (IMHO)
Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#38Getting hostgator HTTP 500. (why the fk in the world someone chooses hostgator as their error page) I am quite suprised how people are so successful at not handling Hacker News load? Even my $5 handled #1 on HN for hours with %0.1 CPU load.
Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#39One aspect that is overlooked here is the actual safety of your data. If you feel that your own server has the safety and backup resources of e.g. Amazon (which Dropbox uses), you're probably deluding yourself.
Amazon might have worse safety and backup resources that you might've been led to think.
Re: Why I Dropped Dropbox and got OwnCloud
#40One aspect that is overlooked here is the actual safety of your data. If you feel that your own server has the safety and backup resources of e.g. Amazon (which Dropbox uses), you're probably deluding yourself.
Two points:
1) Dropbox has many thousands of their own servers, alongside the Amazon. It's not like they're just using raw S3 and nothing else.
2) Dropbox has a history of egregious mistakes which they try to sweep under the rug. Only a very silly person would believe that Arash has suddenly decided to be open and honest with the customers.
Remember, when you talk about Dropbox, you're talking about a company that flat-out lied, claiming that they encrypted your data so they couldn't read it, and didn't stop lying until the FTC got involved.
So yeah... when somebody says Dropbox is better than X, I tend to think that person is deluding themselves.