A Novel Approach of Creating a Self Owned ‘Dropbox’ using Open Source Software

This paper aims at the creation of a self owned cloud user space using an open source service called ownCloud. LINUX environment. A cloud service is used in our day to day activities. We use a cloud service like http://www.dropbox.com to save pictures, documents and many a times music and video files. This paper was written to overcome some of the disadvantages of many cloud services. One such major disadvantage is that the services are not free and are proprietary softwares. But ownCloud is a free and open source software.