NextCloud - Is it good?

Operating Systems & Open Source
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I used OwnCloud years ago when it was kinda trash, and I’ve never really deployed or used NextCloud

Are you guys having good luck with it?

I have 500GB of rsync.net storage, and my goal is to somehow present that 500GB of space via NextCloud on my VPS

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I like it. Never messed with owncloud.

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I am running it as a TrueNAS App. I like it and the setup, while isnt exactly a breeze, it is much easier than running it on a regular server.

The cellphone app is a bit meh but at least it works enough…

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I’ve tried using it many times, but I just always give up… it’s meh in general for me, the Community version that is (check out the comparison with Enterprise).

OwnCloud people are still a bit salty about the fork I think? This just feels a bit petty, but they do have a couple of valid points in there…

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I’ve been using Nextcloud for a long time, switched from OwnCloud shortly after the split and never looked back. OwnCloud started having issues and updates/fixes were long in coming back then. Community support has been excellent, lots of online resources and tools and it is always gaining excellent functionality that makes sense. I’ve never had an issue that a few minutes of searching didn’t find a quick answer to. Nextcloud is a must have for anyone who is attempting to de-google their lives in my opinion. Integrations, and community apps also add some excellent features. Talk is also greatly underrated optional feature as well if you need to collaborate as a team, have secure communications with others that’s platform agnostic and avoids walled garden issues.

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Yeah, my main thing is that I use OneDrive to share files to people sometimes. What I’ve come to realize is that I do it more than I think, and now those files are in Microsofts hands, who I don’t trust

If I send people files via NextCloud, I control the data!

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Pretty happy with deployment. Pretty happy with bookmarks via floccus. Once I get through a storage upgrade on my file server I’m going to replace Google Drive with it completely.
Then I’m going to evaluate whether I replace some other software with some of the available plugins/integrations. Thinking maybe it’s time to drop MS Office. There were some others I was also eyeballing.
Overall it feels well-built.
I didn’t try ownCloud. At the time I was evaluating them this one looked more developed.

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I think next cloud has really matured. I used owncloud a while back too.

If you haven’t tried it in the last few years, give it another shot. They have demo servers I think so you can poke around too.

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Hi! Was using owncloud but changed to nextcloud when the fork took place. Never have been looking back. I’m very pleased to have control over my own data ( paranoia at the best :slight_smile: ) in my own basement accessible from www, and from browsers, apps on computers, tabs and mobiles. Backups are managed at home. A little more work maybe and additional backup media is needed.

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Pretty good so far, ended up needing an extra container for cron. After I figured that out, its been working well

version: '2'
    
services:
  db:
    container_name: nextcloud-db
    image: mariadb:10.5
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --binlog-format=ROW
    volumes:
      - /media/nextcloud-db:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD="password"
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD="password"
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud

  app:
    container_name: nextcloud-app
    image: nextcloud
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8081:80
    links:
      - db
    volumes:
      - /media/nextcloud-docroot:/var/www/html
      - /media/nextcloud-data:/var/www/html/data
    environment:
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD="password"
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
      - MYSQL_HOST=db	  
  cron:
    image: nextcloud:apache
    container_name: nextcloud-cron
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /media/nextcloud-docroot:/var/www/html
      - /media/nextcloud-data:/var/www/html/data

    entrypoint: /cron.sh
    depends_on:
      - db