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To the Personal Cloud - Recommendations?

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday January 20 2015, @02:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the stormy-weather dept.

SuperCharlie writes:

I would like to throw this out to the community for a little guidance.

In the last year my wife and I jumped on the tablet bandwagon and are very happy with our respective Android tablets for regular email and web surfing from the couch. In our house we also have a Linux laptop where I do a lot of work and such as well as a Windows Vista box I have basically made a file and media machine (hay it's been good to me).

So now it has become time to do some easy sharing and syncing across all these machines and installing a personal cloud server on the Vista box seems like what I need to do. I have looked at ownCloud and Tonido so far which both look similar but require the enterprise or paid versions for mobile sync apps although they do both have free regular access clients. So before I start spending money, as the sync is important to me, I would like to ask my fellow Soylerantes..um Soylas..uhh.. Soylanistas.. have you had any luck with personal cloud servers and specifically have you got one syncing with Android?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Tuesday January 20 2015, @03:28PM

    by pe1rxq (844) on Tuesday January 20 2015, @03:28PM (#136393) Homepage

    Thanks for the invitation, but I will continue to call it 'marketing bullshit' for now.

    There are a few things where 'cloud' can actually mean something, but most of the time it just means that stuff which was labeled 'web 2.0' for no good reason is relabeled yet again.

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  • (Score: 2) by Geotti on Tuesday January 20 2015, @04:00PM

    by Geotti (1146) on Tuesday January 20 2015, @04:00PM (#136400) Journal

    Well actually it's just like the definition of grid computing with the added "benefit" of transparent resource provisioning. I.e. you don't know what your stuff runs on, at least in the case of public Butts.