Upgrading a large ownCloud instance

These last weeks I had to upgrade a large ownCloud installation. It was the community edition, so there was little to none information about how to upgrade such big instances. Many ownCloud community installations seem to be running on small organizations, so most recommendations about upgrading were not valid for this instance. I had to upgrade 3 major releases, from ownCloud 4.5 to ownCloud 7.

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Speeding up Composer inside a Vagrant box

There has been a lot written about how to speed up Symfony when running it inside a Vagrant box. In my opinion, the most interesting one is Running the Symfony application on Vagrant without NFS below 100ms. The change that has the biggest possitive impact on performance consists on moving the vendors/ directory outside the shared folder.

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