What hardware do you use for Nextcloud?
I’m willing to finally get my own cloud using #Nextcloud but I have zero clue about which hardware I should choose for home storage. It would be used for domestic stuff, such as photos, music, movies and files, for the whole family, not necessarily for work
I know it’s unpopular, but I’m starting to agree with you. I set up NextCloud, but I honestly don’t use much of any of it. The only part I really want is the file sync and handling, as well as LibreOffice in the cloud. I don’t care about the calendar, contacts sync, video chat, etc. I looked through the plugins, and the ones I tried kind of sucked. I also really don’t like PHP and the Docker image is all wrong, so it’s more of a pain than anything to deal with.
So I’m trying out Seafile. I didn’t realize it supports Collabora CODE, so I’m going to check that out. My main hangup is the directory structure, so I’ll figure out the FUSE FS thing and see if that’ll work well enough for me.
I literally just want to be able to send stuff from our machines, view/edit them online quickly, and send the important stuff to an offline backup.
Who knows, maybe I’ll like it, and maybe I’ll come back to NextCloud. Either way, I highly recommend people try out alternatives, because there really are a lot of cool projects out there.
People are down voting me because they’ve pledged their soul to the monolith of shitty plugins.
Even if you want all the pieces there’s way better versions of them than what you get in nextcloud. Also depending on how many devices you need libreoffice on, might be easier just to run a syncthings instance and sync the files that way. Its what I’m doing for obsidian and its awesome.
Alternatively theres also this but I can’t vouch for it as I haven’t set it up yet
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-online/
My main use case here is using it on my phone. I used to use Google Sheets a lot on my phone, and I want to replicate that without Google. LibreOffice Online works through NextCloud, but I really don’t need the extra features, so I’m going to get it set up through Seafile.
I also may want to share a sheet or something with someone else so we can both edit it, but that’s not a hard requirement.
Lemme know how seafile works for you. I’m going to be replacing google cloud myself soon
I switched from nextcloud to seafile. Their app has paid file search for android app. Also full text search is paid. The docker also seems to crash a lot.
I’ve been testing owncloud ocis and it works really well. Just trying to figure out a few things for single sign on, but the app otherwise works really well.