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Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by Volundr »

martin_a wrote: post #96

I'm running Nextcloud on a shared webhosting and have mounted a Hetzner storage box as external storage into it. That comes down to around 7 €/month for hosting costs, which I find fair. I'm using the Nextcloud Android client, which could be better but does its job, to sync photos from my phone to the cloud. That can also be configured quite nicely to have specific folders for uploads, that should help you with keepi…

I let Hetzner run NextCloud for me https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

It's an amazing value.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by Volundr »

0x008 wrote: post #66
5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #22

Just get the oracle free tier. I've read my share of FUD about how bad oracle cloud supposedly is, but went ahead anyway. It's been something like 3 years, no complaints (including ~1.5 years of running their 4-core ARM/24 GiB RAM/200 GB HDD machine). https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/#always-free I've used many other free tiers over the years (living in a low-income region you pretty much have to), and they make it…

whenever I tried using it, no instances were available, so I just gave up.

It's confusing. Especially the ARM instances aren't available in some availability zones, and there is really nothing in the error to tell you the AZ is the issue.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by vladstudio »

Trying out self-hosting is almost as addictive as trying out note managers :-)

Anyway, here's my current setup:

- Hetzner Cloud VPS -- https://www.hetzner.com/cloud -- I use it for a public website - https://vlad.studio/ - otherwise I'd get the cheapest option); 4€/mo

- 1Tb Hetzner Storage -- https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box -- mounted as an external drive to the server above; € 3.81

- Filerun -- https://www.filerun.com/ -- used as web interface and file manager, instead of NextCloud. I wanted to like NextCloud, but couldn't. Filerun looks nice. It is not as complex .

- Various mobile Nextcloud-compatible apps connect to my Filerun instance. I'm not happy with this part of setup yet.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by jtode »

samsk wrote: post #47

Hetzner has a hosted 1TB Nextcloud for ~$5 a month. IMHO with that price, it makes no sense to selfhost it. https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

That's definitely a nice looking deal. Hetzner's come up a lot here, I'll be giving them a good look for sure.

Re: Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?

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Post by jtode »

jarym wrote: post #8

The flip side of 'stop relying on some faceless entity to manage it' is that it is a LOT of work to keep something like this up and running. Google automate it and have a ton of engineers to tend to things. But everyone else has to take care of software upgrades, security patching, backups and restore, cyber threats etc. In the long run, independence is worth something. It is just costly.

That's why, in spite of being on the Internet since 1994, I haven't ever really self-hosted anything. At every point, it looked like too much hassle and too much expense.

In this case, I've identified a couple of hard target outcomes which pertain to accessing documents, backing up photos in a way that I understand and trust, and a couple of other minor things, and it appears to me that those specific targets are in reach at a non-crazy price.

But I agree, it's very intimidating to even contemplate, hence my coming to get the thoughts of this community on what's the best way.

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