owncloud hardware sizing.pdf

YOUR CLOUD, YOUR DATA, YOUR WAY! Page 1 of 3 ownCloud Hardware Sizing Introduction One mon question as customers look to size ownCloud is “how much hardware do I need?” This is not a simple question to answer, and it depends a lot on ownCloud usage patterns and user behavior. The purpose of this document is to provide an overview of ownCloud sizing considerations, and provide, with appropriate assumptions, two examples of the hardware sufficient to handle 2 common ownCloud installations. The first answer to the question of hardware sizing is yet another question: what do you expect your users to do with the system? This may sound trivial, but sizing is directly related to the size and number of files stored in the system, the number of application plug-ins enabled on the system, and the nature of the users, devices and bandwidth used to connect to the system. For example, higher bandwidth connections use less memory, but stress disk performance as more files are uploaded in a given time frame. The key questions we look at are users, devices, behaviors, files, and geogra - phy. More specifically, these questions: ? How many users are expected to be active on the system each day? ? How many devices will they be con - necting? ? What type and number of devices (. mobile phone, tablet or desktop / laptop machine) will be used? ? How many files a