Get your own remoteStorage

Choose one of the existing remoteStorage providers:

• Pagekite offer a fast, reliable way to make localhost part of the Web. They offer a remoteStorage server that you can run on your own computer. This solution is not hard to use, and provides by far the easiest way to 'own' your data, and see what is happening to it, but it does require use of the command line (terminal).
• OwnCube are a startup who offer ownCloud hosting. In their ownCloud install they have activated the remoteStorage app, so if you get an account with them (their smallest plan is free), you will also be able to use it as remoteStorage. At the same time, you'll get all the other functionality that is baked into ownCloud.
• 5apps are a startup who are developing an easy way to deploy HTML5 web apps. They are buddies of ours from the Berlin Javascript scene. If you get an account with them, they also offer some remoteStorage, so you can test your own apps with your own account.

If you need help, come to our chat room and let us know. Once you have your remoteStorage account, you can try Libre Docs, the world’s first application to accept remoteStorage accounts. It's just like a normal web application, but does not host your data – Your documents are stored on your remoteStorage account, under your control.

Accept remoteStorage accounts in your web app

We provide a Javascript library for this, called remoteStorage.js. See how to use it with the tutorial that 5apps made for it.

Run your own remoteStorage

Of course, if you have your server or VPS, then you may also want to run your own remoteStorage instance on there. The easiest way to do this is running ownCloud. For that, you need just Apache installed with PHP5, and then follow the ownCloud installation instructions.

Unless you're deploying the latest master, you will need to overwrite apps/user_webfinger and apps/remotestorage subdirectories of your ownCloud install with these latest versions.

Note that you'll need to run your ownCloud installation in the root of your domain (not a subdirectory), the www-data user should have write access on /var/www when you activate both the Webfinger and the remoteStorage apps, you need to enable mod_rewrite in Apache, and you need to set AllowOverride All for /var/www in the Apache config.

Another option is to run express-storage, a remoteStorage server based on nodejs and redis. It's still under development, and mainly meant for testing purposes.

If you have a Ruby-on-Rails site, you should consider integrating liquor-cabinet. It's based on Ruby and Riak, and it's what 5apps use themselves to implement remoteStorage for their users.