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Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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Hmm, my Docker-Compose file is much less complicated: https://www.pastery.net/zykzva/ Though I do have a 4-line Caddy config and a Postgres server on the host.

GP is using a Traefik reverse proxy, which is where the extra stuff comes from.

Plus, OP is using Collabora and caldav/cardav which needs some special consideration when reverse-proxying.

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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To echo what the other replies are saying: mine has been running on a DigitalOcean droplet since early 2019 and I only had to reboot it once. It syncs everything, the iOS app and web dashboard are adequate. I would recommend it (but I haven't tried anything else, other than Google Drive or Dropbox, of course)

Haven’t used droplets, do you have to manage backups yourself or is it part of the service?

You can add disk-level backups to droplets, IIRC it will keep four weekly backups, for +20% price to the droplet

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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GP is using a Traefik reverse proxy, which is where the extra stuff comes from.

Plus, OP is using Collabora and caldav/cardav which needs some special consideration when reverse-proxying.

Both of those work out of the box for me on my reverse proxy. I use the built-in Collabora install though so maybe that's where the difference comes from.

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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Plus, OP is using Collabora and caldav/cardav which needs some special consideration when reverse-proxying.

Both of those work out of the box for me on my reverse proxy. I use the built-in Collabora install though so maybe that's where the difference comes from.

I'd have to double check but I think I had to tweak some things regarding caldav (but it may have been years ago).

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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I use Nextcloud for almost all the stuff I do in day to day life. I run it in docker swarm mode on a 5yr old pc running Debian @home. Freemyip for updating my dynamic IP address

What I use it for ? 1. Notes (Use FSnotes and sync md files) 2. Keypassxc for passwords (sync it using Nextcloud) 3. Photos upload (From Amazon & Google) 4. My recordings & videos 5. Documents (Moved from G Drive) 6. Bookmarks

Where I would like to see improvements? Photos - badly want this to be usable on mobile phones

I am happy overall with Nextcloud. The only time I screwed up is when I didn't know about the upgrade process. Tried moving from 18→20 and totally gone wrong.

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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I trialed setting up my own nextcloud instance a while back. It's still very complex to get working in docker. From memory, the card/caldav traefik rewrites are still not working. SSL was complex to setup with Collabora, and still required manual GUI steps to link into Nextcloud (my biggest pet peeve). I also remember getting the initial setup wrong a few times in the initial setup wizard, which required me to delete…

Wow this could not be more different from my experience trying the same.

I ran nextcloud in docker-compose for 2 years, with nginx doing SSL termination in front. Granted I wasn't using the official image; I use the linuxserver.io releases for all my other services so I use them for this, too. Nextcloud's config is all in the DB, except for database and cache connection information in a single config file. PHP's config is in a separate file and some env vars (eg timezone).

I've recently moved it into my home k3s cluster (yeah, i'm one of those people), which means traefik is my new reverse proxy. Works fine. I found I can get traefik to do the DAV redirects at least with the k8s Ingress config, but I don't need to since the linuxserver image includes the redirects in its' nginx configuration.

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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Looks to me more like Reddit hug of death: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/lpusc7/nextcloud_is_n...

A /r/rust reddit thread is nothing compared to front page HN.

To be fair, at the time I wrote my comment the Reddit post had 400+ votes and the HN one was in the early double digits IIRC.

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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The project is great and I made simple setup in docker to play around with it. There is official docker image you can use https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud . The problem I see with similar services is they all trying to pack everything. You can also install external components into your system. What it means in practice is huge area for security vulnerabilities, challenge to host/upgrade it at home on weekends and v…

I haven't used Nextcloud before, do you happen to know if there's an easy way to just want the file sharing? I don't care for whiteboards or collaboration, I just want a Dropbox equivalent where I can upload files and give other people public or one-time or expiring links to download/wget.

Yes, you can disable the internal apps it ships with if you don't want to use them and just not install any third-party ones either. Only caveat is during one upgrade I noticed some of them had been re-enabled so now I make sure to check each time.

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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I'm a little bit worried with the shift from a 'cloud' storage solution to a groupware software... I only need the storage bits but it seems they are focusing on the groupware thing lately...

Actually there is quite a ton of self hosted cloud storage project but very little those that provide the other services Google has the biggest lock-in on - calendar, contacts, notes, galleries, bookmarks, collaborative editing, etc.

So personally I very glad they are not just trying to be yet another cloud storage tool but also working on these IMHO more important cloud services.

Re: Nextcloud Hub 21

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To the people who have been using Nextcloud successfully for years: is your usage mainly PC-PC or PC-iOS synchronization? Is anyone here running PC-Android synchronization with files that change more often than once a day? My experience with the Nextcloud Android app is that the automatic sync is quite limited (eg. https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/757 , https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/19 ). Eve…

I use it daily for syncing among multiple Linux PCs and two Android/Lineage devices. I actually like that mobile sync is manual because my usage is so heavy it would involve moving around a lot of data unnecessarily.

Setting up my wife with NC on mobile, however, reminded me of lots of ways in which I've accustomed myself to some pretty weird behaviors, like manual syncing, the built in text editor that doesn't load without being online.

I love NC (I use it both for personal needs and with students in my lab) but there are definitely UX issues that present a barrier to new users.

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