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[sblantipodi]

Hi all,
what is the best way to create a storage cloud using a VPS?

I mean something easy to access from phones or desktops.

Samba? What else?

[hybinet]

What do you mean by a storage cloud?

Something like Amazon S3?
Something like Dropbox?
Just a remote filesystem like NFS, Samba, or SSHFS?

If you want to access it a Linux computer, any remote filesystem would work. Things get more complicated on Windows PCs. And if you want to access it from a phone, you will probably need to build an HTTP frontend or a full-blown app.

[sblantipodi]

there are mobiles that permit to load remote folder as a normal folder.
I would like to know if there is someone here using the VPS as a "cloud storage" for mobiles and what is the way they choosed.

[TehDan]

WebDAV is a good option if you want to access from a phone, there are clients for pretty much every platform. However, doing secure WebDAV from Windows will require a client, or some form of VPN/SSH tunnel as (last time I checked) the built in client still won't do WebDAV over HTTPS.

I can't remember the client I used, but it was pretty easy to find one when I last found myself in need.

WebDAV is pretty basic in most implementations, but for simple shifting files around its perfectly adequate.

[advocatux]

Maybe you'll want to try ownCloud.

[sblantipodi]

advocatux wrote: Maybe you'll want to try ownCloud.

this seems very cool. I will give it a try. thanks.
if you have more suggestions is also appreciated.

[sblantipodi]

sincerely I need a cloud storage for my mobiles and not really a cloud to share files via computers and mobiles.

I noticed that Astro File Manager for Android supports SFTP very well, I will use SFTP for my cloud storage.
Ehm, linode, when will you give us some more space? :D