# ownCloud Infinite Scale

5 Hacker News commenters recommended ownCloud Infinite Scale and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a full-featured file sync setup that does only that, written in Go. The most common caveat is its opinionated requirements, which assume Ubuntu LTS and Docker.

## What people warn about

- Many issues, hard to get working (2 comments): "There were so many silly issues" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496857)) "I tried for weeks to get OCIS working but gave up" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492466))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Syncthing](https://hackerapproved.com/p/syncthing.md): 212 recommend
- [Nextcloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nextcloud.md): 154 recommend
- [OpenCloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/opencloud.md): 18 recommend
- [Seafile](https://hackerapproved.com/p/seafile.md): 18 recommend
- [ownCloud](https://hackerapproved.com/p/owncloud.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ownCloud Infinite Scale", https://hackerapproved.com/p/owncloud-infinite-scale/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).