I run DropBox, OneDrive, Copy, Google Drive and Cubby on my machine. I guess I am a sucker for cloud storage.<\/p>\n
I use DropBox to store my SVN plugin archives. I use OneDrive to store my stories and fiction works in progress. I use Google drive for documents and to host a few static sites. I forgot that I even had Copy. It has a backup (from last April) of my websites.<\/p>\n
My favorite was Cubby because it allowed me to sync folders located all around my disk. I synced the folders that I use for Stop Spammer work. Recently, though Cubby stopped syncing. I found that it was storing deleted files and versions of old files and it blew through the 6 gigs that I had. Clearing out the old stuff got me back to 4 gig free. The failure, however, was silent and I went a few days cursing the fact that I lost changes. I thought Cubby was having errors or else the software was not working at all.<\/p>\n
This week I installed OwnCloud.org on a subdomain on my hosting service. It was an item in “Softaculous”. The installation was entering the subdomain name and clicking OK. I then installed the desktop client and after a few false starts was able to backup my stop spammers development folders. It is now installed at my day job, here in my home office machine and my laptop. If I edit a file in one place, it shows up on the other machines automatically so I don’t have to keep track of changes. I like it.<\/p>\n
OwnCloud is slower than the other services because it runs under PHP on my host server. It uses resources on the host server where I am limited by the number of PHP hits that I am allowed each month. I will have to keep my eye on it. I want to control the frequency of its server checks and maybe not check at all during the night. I will investigate this.<\/p>\n
Now, what I would really like, is the ability to configure OwnCloud so that I can sync the www_root folder on my servers and then when I make a change here it will instantly appear on the website. This sounds like a good way to break a website, but it is also a simple way to update static sites.<\/p>\n
I will check to see if anyone has a OwnCloud plugin for WordPress that does this for the dynamic sites. I thought about it and it seems very complicated. Perhaps I could write something to sync settings, users and posts as well as physical files.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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