One of the most common questions we have when talking to prospects is \u201chow\u00a0does ownCloud scale\u201d. The answer? Quite well, thank you. Frank\u00a0blogged\u00a0about\u00a0this recently to the community. From a commercial\u00a0standpoint, I wanted to provide a few examples of how ownCloud scales for our\u00a0customers.<\/p>\n
ownCloud was designed from the beginning to operate in nearly every\u00a0enterprise environment. This flexibility means our n-tier web application\u00a0(LAMP stack) can be purely vanilla on a single server (such as our demo\u00a0virtual appliance), or scaled in virtual and physical environments, made HA,\u00a0and replicated to a second passive DR site. Frank already pointed to a great\u00a0blog on\u00a0how HA can work with ownCloud<\/a>.<\/p>\n How do customers actually deploy ownCloud?<\/strong> How does it scale?<\/strong> In short, ownCloud scales from the smaller business unit deployments, all the\u00a0way up to the largest on-site enterprise deployments on industry standard\u00a0hardware. If you would like to know more about how ownCloud could scale in\u00a0your environment, please contact us at\u00a0info@owncloud.com<\/a>\u00a0or just fill out this\u00a0form<\/a>\u00a0and we would be happy to answer your questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ownCloud was designed from the beginning to operate in nearly every\u00a0enterprise environment from single server to high performance set-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[186,69,187],"class_list":["post-15839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-best-enterprise-file-sharing","tag-enterprise-file-sharing","tag-how-to-scale-enterprise-file-sharing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTypically customers install ownCloud as a load balanced n-tier app with a\u00a0MySQL cluster, a clustered file system, and multiple ownCloud app servers.\u00a0Most customers use F5 or NetScaler as their front load balancer, or even HA\u00a0Proxy. ownCloud connects to virtually any storage option; from Red Hat\u00a0Storage or Ceph, to DDN\u2019s Web Object Store, IBM\u2019s Spectrum Scale, or even\u00a0NetApp. The flexibility of ownCloud allows our customers to choose the\u00a0solution that works best in their environment, often something they already\u00a0have.<\/p>\n
\nIn this architecture, ownCloud scales quite well. A good practical example is\u00a0Sciebo, which Holger discusses\u00a0here<\/a>. That architecture is based on our performance testing\u00a0work with IBM, documented in our\u00a0white paper<\/a>. For other\u00a0examples, you can find our white paper on\u00a0how to size hardware in general<\/a>\u00a0with ownCloud that many find useful in discussing scale, and a\u00a0reference architecture with performance results from an HP, Red Hat Storage\u00a0and ownCloud\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n