OwnCloud Server 8.0

Unfortunately OwnCloud is fundamentally broken because all "apps" share the same process and have to be written in PHP. The bigger the ecosystem gets, the harder it is going to be to deal with security issues. If OwnCloud wants to become a reference platform for other developers it really has to tackle sandboxing and permissions.

OwnCloud looks pretty neat, but I do wish that it would support client-side encryption; I don't trust a machine I'm renting in a data centre any more than I do Facebook or Google. I'm aware that there (sadly) aren't standards for browser-uploaded encrypted files, sharing encrypted files efficiently and so forth, so it's hardly their fault.

This is great news. I've been looking for an excuse to move away from my bug-ridden Pydio install. I tried upgrading to the newest version of Pydio only to have the upgrade process completely break the site. OwnCloud just looks better managed and more stable for production.

<a href="https://owncloud.org/eight/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;owncloud.org&#x2F;eight&#x2F;</a>

Note: I just tried to upgrade the version following the docs. I didn&#x27;t notice that I read the 7.0 docs for upgrading and there, it says you should download &quot;owncloud-latest.tar.bz2&quot;. This will download an old version of ownCloud. Use this link to get it:<p><a href="https://download.owncloud.org/community/owncloud-8.0.0.tar.bz2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;download.owncloud.org&#x2F;community&#x2F;owncloud-8.0.0.tar.b...</a>

Are there any alternatives that have a better syncing mechanism? I really like ownClouds interface but I have encountered a few bugs with syncing files.

An up to date demo is available at <a href="https://demo.owncloud.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;demo.owncloud.org</a>.

The site seems to be down right now. Here&#x27;s the text-only Google cache for anyone else who just wants to see what&#x27;s new:<p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:owncloud.org/eight/&amp;strip=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:ownclou...</a>

I&#x27;d love to see a review of this from someone who has tried using it for a while - also compared to Sandstorm which is similar (newer, more sandboxed) <a href="https://sandstorm.io/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sandstorm.io&#x2F;</a>

Are there any active OwnCloud users out there? I&#x27;m curious about your experience.<p>How do you feel about it? What do you use it for primarily?