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Most newer NAS Devices (i.e. from Synology) have a wide range of applications to use through webbrowsers or mobile apps. Sadly, there's no good replacement for Office365 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint).
It works with odt files and you can edit collaboratively, even with people not on ownCloud. Spreadsheets and presentations are not there yet because that’s really difficult. :)
I keep a list of self-hosted application over at https://github.com/victorhaggqvist/selfhosted . Feel free to contribute if you think there is something missing.
The focus is on highlighting one (the best) alternative in a given field, and limit the ones listed to those which are well-designed, open source of course, and also have a hosted instance so it’s ready to use for anyone without a server.
I’m sure you already know of https://prism-break.org/ ?
Real question for self hosters: what kinds of applications are you running where you feel you need this?
Only speaking for myself... OwnCloud - I just don't trust an American company to host my data. Now, is my small UK based host as likely to be as effective at protecting my data as DropBox? Maybe not - but they don't have a proponent of torture on their board, so it's swings and roundabouts. TT-RSS - I couldn't find a decent RSS manager which I liked. TT does the job - and I'm not worried that someone will decide that…
It’s pretty cool, basically like TT-RSS but it looks more modern and is integrated in ownCloud. There are also apps for almost all platforms, like apps for Android & iOS which download all articles (and even podcasts) for offline reading.
I keep a list of self-hosted application over at https://github.com/victorhaggqvist/selfhosted . Feel free to contribute if you think there is something missing.
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I've installed and abandoned ownCloud several times, mostly because it is far too heavy for what I need and I had concerns about its security. I also had to set up EncFS on my local machines for client-side encryption of sensitive files because there was no way I was trusting that to ownCloud server-side. It took more work to set up but I have Seafile self-hosted on the smallest DigitalOcean VPS and it works beautifu…
I run ownCloud, despite some reservations about its security. I'm not too concerned about the data in ownCloud itself (if it's private, then I encrypt it client-side, but most things I put in ownCloud are not very private). I'm more concerned about it being used as a launching point for an attack on my home server. As a kind of compromise, I'm running it in a VM.
ownCloud does run a bug bounty program (https://hackerone.com/owncloud) and the company supporting the project also employs internal security experts.
You might also want to read https://statuscode.ch/2015/09/ownCloud-security-development-... which covers why comparing CVEs is not a reliably way to compare the security of products.
some other weapons of choice: WordPress - https://wordpress.org/ - because "WordPress is the Kalashnikov of the web." ( https://t.co/QgsYYUFTbo ) Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/ - for distributed file syncing Baikal - http://baikal-server.com/ - for contact & calendar syncing rss2email - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rss2email - because email is stable, solid, and not going anywhere Tox - https://tox.chat/ - p2p, e…
Syncthing is awesome, I don't understand why some people still use bittorrent sync. If you use ownCloud only for file syncing you'd also be better off using Syncthing instead. The developer is also a super nice guy, answering all bug and performance reports on github. Regarding contact & calendar syncing, I just wish more apps could just use files instead of always setting a new server and reinventing the wheel to sy…
Moreover, it's much easier to set up, I share stuff with family and they didn't have problems setting it up.
Although this is a nice write up about a possible setup for self hosted alternatives for popular cloud services, I don't like it. It falls short to compare the different possible services and the possibilities you can have with them. OwnCloud is nice, but why should I pick on OwnCloud and not SeaFile. Ampache is cool, but why not Subsonic? I would like to read the reasoning behind the individual choices OR the reason…
I've installed and abandoned ownCloud several times, mostly because it is far too heavy for what I need and I had concerns about its security. I also had to set up EncFS on my local machines for client-side encryption of sensitive files because there was no way I was trusting that to ownCloud server-side. It took more work to set up but I have Seafile self-hosted on the smallest DigitalOcean VPS and it works beautifu…
Baikal is PHP, but can run on sqlite instead of MySQL : http://baikal-server.com/
Real question for self hosters: what kinds of applications are you running where you feel you need this?
The reason I selfhost is this. We are on a rapid path towards home computing devices being nothing more than dumb terminals where some server in the distance hosts your OS, files and apps. All, of course, proprietary so as to make switching painful. I DO NOT WANT THIS. So, I use and root for the technologies that I want to see win. I want complete and unfettered access to my files.
Real question for self hosters: what kinds of applications are you running where you feel you need this?
Only speaking for myself... OwnCloud - I just don't trust an American company to host my data. Now, is my small UK based host as likely to be as effective at protecting my data as DropBox? Maybe not - but they don't have a proponent of torture on their board, so it's swings and roundabouts. TT-RSS - I couldn't find a decent RSS manager which I liked. TT does the job - and I'm not worried that someone will decide that…