Personal Cloud Designed to Run on Raspberry Pi

[kbdunn]

The Nimbus Personal Cloud has just been released - I am very excited to share it with the RPi community!

Nimbus lets you store, share and stream your files anywhere and is designed to run on nothing but an external hard drive and Raspberry Pi. If you're interested, head over to http://cloudnimbus.org, check out the demo, and set up your own personal cloud if you have a spare RPi laying around.

I would love to hear your feedback. Let me know what you think!

[Massi]

seems very nice!
but am i wrong or it installs also a dedicated web server?

[kbdunn]

You're right, it's running embedded Jetty under the covers.

[Massi]

maybe this can be a problem playing with a pi that has not much horsepower..
I mean, i already have apache on my pi, for a lot of other things, a "cloud service" running with my apache would be much better than a cloud service with its webserver..
What's the resource occupation of this thing?

[kbdunn]

Nimbus is written in Java and requires an application server - you wouldn't be able to run it on Apache (think Tomcat, Wildfly, etc.).

It is a CPU intensive application at the moment - my primary focus is to improve performance. On my model B it sometimes uses 90%+ CPU and about 30% of available memory.

[Massi]

Nimbus is written in Java and requires an application server - you wouldn't be able to run it on Apache (think Tomcat, Wildfly, etc.).

It is a CPU intensive application at the moment - my primary focus is to improve performance. On my model B it sometimes uses 90%+ CPU and about 30% of available memory.

ah ok, i didn't understand it's java
so you should have a dedicated PI for this.. ok..
btw, really nice

[kbdunn]

Thanks! If you try it out leave us a comment here or on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

[mrspcs]

Thanks looks nice, easy to setup too.

[ame]

Nice to have a choice.

https://samhobbs.co.uk/2013/10/install- ... spberry-pi

[kbdunn]

A brand new look & feel is on the way! This will be a huge improvement to the layout.

[Rpizer]

looks nice but it will needs some more functions and good ui and more security .
I can see that you're using your local network no web hosting in demo ( it's not safe ) .

[kbdunn]

I can see that you're using your local network no web hosting in demo ( it's not safe ).

Could you be more specific on what your security concerns are? The whole concept of a personal cloud is to host it from your home network

It is true that the demo is not running over SSL. SSL support will be added in the near future, and SRP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Rem ... d_protocol) will also be implemented to make authentication very secure even when not using SSL. This will make passwords much more secure and resistant to man-in-the-middle attacks.

[kbdunn]

Version 0.3-beta has just been released with some great UI improvements. Check it out!! http://demo.nimbusphere.org.

[kbdunn]

Gearing up for the next release! 0.4-beta will have text file editing, image viewing and a slick notifications bar.

Want to request new features? Leave us a note here!

-Bryson

[kbdunn]

0.4-beta is now available! Check out the Demo (http://demo.nimbusphere.org), the release notes (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... 2qjrLBqs-I), and as always get the software from http://cloudnimbus.org.

[Pilsener]

Nimbus was exactly what I was looking for.
Easy to setup, and not too many features that I don't use anyway.
I love it.
Except...it doesn't seem to have support for Nordic chars in the filenames.
Or maybe I just need to do some configurations?

[kbdunn]

That's very interesting - I'll need to take a closer look at internationalization. Thanks for letting us know!

[Pilsener]

How about making mobile apps for Nimbus?
Ability for streaming media would also be nice.

[kbdunn]

Mobile apps are definitely on the roadmap. There is functionality to stream music and videos in the current version.

[Pilsener]

Is there an "Open with....." option for videos?

[kbdunn]

I'm not sure what you mean.. Currently the video plays in a Media Element JS player (http://mediaelementjs.com/) in the browser. Of course you have the option to download it to your local machine to open with any application you'd like as well.

[kbdunn]

New version out now! SSL support and much better sharing capabilities. Check out the demo at http://bit.ly/1FbS6sD

[kbdunn]

0.5.3-beta is here! Check out the demo: http://t.co/rg8cjk43sq and the release notes: http://t.co/WPZOmTqnQs. Download the new version at http://cloudnimbus.org.

We just got two Raspberry Pi 2s through the door, and will be checking out performance with Ubuntu Snappy Core! Very excited to get our hands on these.

[pavinjoseph]

You guys have done a really good job with Nimbus. Easy to set up and use. It was my first cloud installation on the RPi2 and it worked well.

[kbdunn]

Quick update on the development of Nimbus - we've just released 0.6.0-beta with extremely flexible storage (use it with your NAS!) and a ton of other enhancements. Release notes can be found at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... kUxMAJ4Y-I, and as always check us out at http://cloudnimbus.org to download!

-Bryson