Own Cloud Storage Space
Other owncloud online users have their own dedicated workspace so no cross cloud access is possible.
Own cloud storage space. Like a classroom needs a closet your virtual classroom needs cloud storage. If you have two partitions within your operating system like this is the output of df h entered into the terminal of your server. It is only accessible by you. Filesystem size used avail use mounted on dev root 20g 8 3g 9 9g 46 devtmpfs 2 0g 0 2 0g 0 dev tmpfs 2 0g 0 2 0g.
Owncloud online is hosted in germany by a company based in germany and is certified secure and compliant with gdpr an ccpa. Owncloud online saas the external storage feature enables users to mount storage space at other providers safely and quickly. Owncloud does not offer off premises storage capacity. It has to be safe secure and easy to use.
Amazon s3 dropbox microsoft sharepoint and google drive as well as windows network drives smb and ftp. It is actually a bunch of features supporting different storage providers. Owncloud storage capacity has to be provided on user owned devices. An owncloud online instance is a dedicated installation with dedicated storage and user space.
But owncloud stands out not only as one of the only fully open source offerings in this space but also because unlike competitors such as dropbox it s not a hosted service and has no plans to become one. Owncloud is a software only product. Background owncloud is using the disc space provided by the operation system. This is in contrast to the likes of dropbox that offers both software and off premises storage capacity.