So a few week ago I discovered my 100gb free promo on my google drive account was about to expire so I decided to look into alternatives.

I had 115gb worth of storage space on my google drive account and this was not cutting it as it was almost full, after doing alot of googling I found lowendtalk forum and owncloud and a VPS host called "time4vps" 

Looking at the plans available I found one that included 

• 1core of a Intel® Xeon® E5-2609 v3 at 1.9ghz
• 1gb of ram
• 1tb of hard drive space
• 10tb of bandwidth
• 100mbit port

All for $19nzd for 3 months use.

After installation of ubuntu 14.04 and SSHing into it I finally managed to get owncloud running with ssl cirt (i'm a fairly novice linux user)

So how does it perform?

Well surprisingly not terrible I am on a 70/30 VDSL connection through spark and I can basically max out upload to the server downloading however seems to be less consistent but I can go upto my full connection speed eventually.

If anyone else wants to test this server that would be interesting

Here is a RAW stitched photo I took a few years ago:

https://www.th3hub.tk/owncloud/index.php/s/nZM2jgEpCWKa82U

And if anyone wants to play with owncloud and do their own testing I have created a geekzone account 

https://www.th3hub.tk/owncloud/

User: geekzone

Password: password

So far as I can see it here are a list of pros and cons:

Pros

• Cost
• You can do more things with a VPS
• It's fun and geeky to set up
• You can set up accounts for friends or family and set limits ie storage space

Cons

• Data is not backed up (its on raid 6 but no weekly backups)
• Speed can variable
• The server is located on the other side of the world
• It's not user friendly to set up

Some images of performance