I’ve gotten a bit tired of Nextcloud as of late an I’m curious it is a viable alternative. I like having Nextcloud Talk but I can live without it.
In the beginning, there was ownCloud. They were a good FLOSS offering that decided to start catering solely to corporate customers in the hopes of juicy support contracts. The community who had been contributing the majority of the code gave them a mighty “Fork you” and created NextCloud.
That was about ten years ago. I haven’t looked into ownCloud for the last seven or so, but it had stagnated pretty badly by that point. Maybe they’ve gotten some fresh blood since then, but you’ll likely find it to be quite lacking in features and plugins comparatively.
I like that they are using Go instead of Php
I had heard they had rewritten it in go and got a lot more performant, not sure what else they have done. I don’t care much about the politics as long as it’s still open source (is it?).
That said, I’m a happy nextcloud user and I don’t see a reason to switch (after moving both data and db onto SSDs it’s much faster, so maybe php wasn’t the bottleneck).
Like others, I started with owncloud but when Nextcloud forked I switched within a year. I haven’t looked back and is working without any issues and is performant.
I don’t really care about the enterprise shit since it’s not being shoved in my face 🤷🏼♂️
I used to but had issues with it. Switched to Nextcloud.
Yep. I like next cloud much better.
Yeah I just need to clean up my install so it isn’t so bogged down.
How is it set up? What are you running it on?
My Nextcloud instance doesn’t use a ton of resources. But I’m on a somewhat beefy machine (16GB RAM, 8-core CPU), so YMMV.
You running it on bare metal? Much better that way vs docker in my experience
I might switch to AIO. Maybe podman if I get inspired. Bare metal is just way to hard to maintain. I could automate it with Ansible but at that point I might as well use containers.
I have the docker AIO going for about a year after every other form of install exploded itself. So far so good.
If you’re looking for a good Nextcloud replacement I recommend Seafile. Been using it for years, very solid.
That’s just for files though. I’m looking for calendar and contact management as well
have you looked into baikal?
I’m playing with it now. So far so good, after a rocky setup.
I am using Owncloud OCIS now. A much leaner version and provides just the file sharing and doc editing feature.
Hosting with docker with just one container is fairly straight forward and easy if you don’t need document editors.
So far has been very performant.
