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These days, everybody is talking about cloud computing, and many people use it in one form or the other. But popular cloud computing services are provided by a third party, which means that you store you data on a server somewhere, so that you can access it any time, from anywhere. But there are cloud applications that any person can use to host their own private cloud, from their home. OwnCloud is one such application. With OwnCloud, you can build a cloud computing service on your server, in your basement, that you can access from anywhere.

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tracyanne ·
I'm running some tests with it at the moment. suposedly it makes owncloud easier to use, but I find owncloud pretty useless, even running locally. For example I can't copy or move any reasonable sized file onto the owncloud server. On the other hand I'm pretty sure I can set up a website that will allow me to share those same files over a WAN.

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