Alternatives to Dropbox that can be installed on our server?

[Yorus]

Lately I think we no longer look at all these companies that offer us free (or not) storage like Dropbox, SugarSync, etc... with the same eyes, so I have decided to set up my own cloud on my little server.

The idea was mainly to set it up on the Raspberry with Raspbian and simply an SD for the documents that I need to have available. I prefer not to use a pendrive for certain things because they get lost. The chosen one has been OwnCloud, but I have installed it temporarily on the HTPC with Windows 7 because I know it would take me a while to have the Rasp ready.

The problem is that access via the web within the local network is slower than I expected and to top it off the clients do not seem to be very stable. I have tried the one from Ubuntu installed on Linux Mint and the one from Windows on Windows 7, and it is rare that they do not crash.

What can be the problem or what other alternatives do you know?. I like the option of a cloud system because in my job we have FTP capado (damn it, we are hardware and software technicians) and because in addition OwnCloud has many more options, already contacts and calendar that I would like to try to synchronize with my Android.

Best regards.

[cobito]

When you say it's slow for you, how slow is it? I've had a home server for a year now that, among other things, serves owncloud via https (which is essential for me when I connect to public wifis) and locally I get about 2 Mbytes/s.

The server is built on Debian 7 running on an atom n270.

The maximum transfer does not depend on the cloud service you use since it is done via http(s). So the performance will be more or less the same.

I find the client pretty polished, both on windows and linux, although it's true that sometimes you see a bit of strange behavior like downloading a file that was already synced (I think this was fixed with a server-side update).

If you end up mounting it on a raspi, the local performance won't be as good as you'd like, especially because of the CPU limitation.

In my case, I almost always use it from the internet and it always goes to the top of the server's connection (about 150-160 kbytes/s).

[Yorus]

No, it's not in transfer, it's when navigating through its options. For example right now I have logged in from the main PC and since I pressed Enter it has taken more than 30 seconds to show me the next screen.

My "server" is the Atom D2550 with Windows 7 (it's the only system with which XBMC accelerates HD videos by hardware in these micros, because the PowerVR they have has very poor or almost non-existent support in Linux). The network connection is slow, both devices are on Wifi G, but for this it shouldn't be that much of a problem. I don't know, maybe it's a matter of Windows 7 or the "all in one AMP" that I have used. Right now the torrent queue is empty, not downloading or sharing anything.

Edit: Already inside OwnCloud it takes about 5 seconds to go from 'files' to 'contacts' for example, maybe it's not that bad. And well, I just realized that the disk where the AMP system and OwnCloud itself are is via USB 2.0, so maybe I should try to migrate at least apache and others to the SSD.

[cobito]

It's strange. My machine is supposed to be quite inferior and the response times are not even close to that even from the internet. It may be because of xampp. In my case I use the official debian packages.

The powervr issue is a major problem for linux. I won't even tell you to try it with that machine. But if you end up doing it with the raspi or on another pc with debian or a derivative, the guide I made for raspi has the process step by step.

[Yorus]

I still have my old VIA C7 here that has always performed great with Debian and Ubuntu Server. I was planning to use it as a Windows server to learn a bit about domains, active directory, etc... but I imagine I can do that with virtual machines on the PC. Another step would be to put that server next to the router to have the wired connection, and next to the main one also wired. All this stuff in the end is confusing me :D.