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Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#11

Post by cycomanic »

powersnail wrote: post #5
thedriver wrote: post #2

Nextcloud is fantastic. I'm personally running it on a Debian 11 server. I like the web-ui more than for example onedrive or gdrive, and it's not even that hard to setup.

Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? If the latter, and if you don't mind my asking, where do you find affordable storage for your VPS? The biggest hurdle for me to use Nextcloud is that attaching a large storage to a VPS seems to be quite a bit more expensive than using Google drive, etc. My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage. (To be fair to DO, the storage is SSD, but in…

S3 the is quite expensive the cheapest compatible alternative I'm aware of is idrive E2 which is $40 per year for 1Tb, they currently have an offer for $4 for the first year. That said I bought one of those offers and the connection from Europe was quite slow, however for that price it's an easy try.

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#12

Post by JamesAdir »

thedriver wrote: post #2

Nextcloud is fantastic. I'm personally running it on a Debian 11 server. I like the web-ui more than for example onedrive or gdrive, and it's not even that hard to setup.

How do you deal with encryption? Did you encrypted the storage volume, using the Server Side encryption of nextcloud or any other way? Was just thinking about that and I'm thinking what's the best way to enjoy both security and usability.

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#13

Post by JamesAdir »

nazgulsenpai wrote: post #9
powersnail wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? If the latter, and if you don't mind my asking, where do you find affordable storage for your VPS? The biggest hurdle for me to use Nextcloud is that attaching a large storage to a VPS seems to be quite a bit more expensive than using Google drive, etc. My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage. (To be fair to DO, the storage is SSD, but in…

I just set mine up two days ago, VPS for NextCloud and storage is a RPi with a SATA SSD in my closet at home with Wireguard connecting the two. The NextCloud data folder pointed to NFS on storage. Its not the fastest solution, but it does work and gives my RPi a purpose.

How do you protect this setup? Have you used any kind of encryption?

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#14

Post by raybb »

kenniskrag wrote: post #6
powersnail wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? If the latter, and if you don't mind my asking, where do you find affordable storage for your VPS? The biggest hurdle for me to use Nextcloud is that attaching a large storage to a VPS seems to be quite a bit more expensive than using Google drive, etc. My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage. (To be fair to DO, the storage is SSD, but in…

I use hetzner storage. You can attach it as external storage and costs 4 EUR https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box?country=de

There's also Herzner storage share with is slightly more pricy at about 5 EUR but they manage nextcloud for you.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

Although, as I understand it they don't actually financially support nextcloud. If you want hosted nextcloud that sends money back to development https://thegood.cloud/ or similar would do it.

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#15

Post by JamesAdir »

dark-star wrote: post #3
thedriver wrote: post #2

Nextcloud is fantastic. I'm personally running it on a Debian 11 server. I like the web-ui more than for example onedrive or gdrive, and it's not even that hard to setup.

same. I've been running NextCloud for years on multiple installations (even on a small RaspberryPi under k8s at home) and it works perfectly. Recently I read up about OwnCloud's OCIS and I really want to try it out, it sounds like it could scale much better than the PHP behemoth that is NextCloud (where all you can do if you have performance issues is throw more CPU and memory at the VM)

I would love a slimmed down version of nextcloud, as it's php base make it very easy to install on cheap shared hosting.

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#16

Post by christophilus »

powersnail wrote: post #5
thedriver wrote: post #2

Nextcloud is fantastic. I'm personally running it on a Debian 11 server. I like the web-ui more than for example onedrive or gdrive, and it's not even that hard to setup.

Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? If the latter, and if you don't mind my asking, where do you find affordable storage for your VPS? The biggest hurdle for me to use Nextcloud is that attaching a large storage to a VPS seems to be quite a bit more expensive than using Google drive, etc. My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage. (To be fair to DO, the storage is SSD, but in…

Depending on your perf requirements, you could use one of those S3 mounts and put stuff in Wasabi or Backblaze.

Also, a minute on DDG brought me to AlphaVPS[0]. No idea if they’re any good, but the point is there are cheap storage providers out there. It’s a matter of spending the time to find and vet them.

[0] https://alphavps.com/storage-vps.html

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#17

Post by michaelteter »

I wanted to like Nextcloud, and I made a real effort two different times (hetzner metal servers with attached storage).

Both times it would eventually run into sync problems, where it would just get stuck and refuse to keep things in sync.

I had the same problem with Onedrive (it was worse).

Tresorit was very good and reliable and theoretically very secure, but it was some financial cost.

The last thing I tried is Apple’s 2TB iCloud offering, which is cheap and thus far has not had problems keeping about 1.4TB (around a million files at peak) synced without problems. Of course you must already be living in the Apple ecosystem, but I am and it is convenient.

I do trust Apple to provide reliable and durable service more than I could with my own Nextcloud setup.

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#18

Post by V__ »

powersnail wrote: post #5
thedriver wrote: post #2

Nextcloud is fantastic. I'm personally running it on a Debian 11 server. I like the web-ui more than for example onedrive or gdrive, and it's not even that hard to setup.

Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? If the latter, and if you don't mind my asking, where do you find affordable storage for your VPS? The biggest hurdle for me to use Nextcloud is that attaching a large storage to a VPS seems to be quite a bit more expensive than using Google drive, etc. My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage. (To be fair to DO, the storage is SSD, but in…

I have a VPS for web hosting, but not enough storage for my Nextcloud needs. As mentioned by others, Hetzners Storage Box [1] has great value. I hooked up the latter to the former using Nextclouds External Storage and it works flawlessly. You could even think about running Nextcloud locally on a RaspPi and using this method to hook up cloud storage.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box [2] https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/config...

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#19

Post by PaywallBuster »

powersnail wrote: post #5
thedriver wrote: post #2

Nextcloud is fantastic. I'm personally running it on a Debian 11 server. I like the web-ui more than for example onedrive or gdrive, and it's not even that hard to setup.

Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? If the latter, and if you don't mind my asking, where do you find affordable storage for your VPS? The biggest hurdle for me to use Nextcloud is that attaching a large storage to a VPS seems to be quite a bit more expensive than using Google drive, etc. My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage. (To be fair to DO, the storage is SSD, but in…

you should search for 'storage vps'

some providers have a dedicated category for these nodes _still using_ HDD

most VPS are only using SSD/NVMe (even attached storage) so it will be too expensive as you can see

example time4vps - 1tb storage is ~ 5 eur https://www.time4vps.com/storage-vps/

Re: Nextcloud and OpenBSD = <3

#20

Post by JamesAdir »

V__ wrote: post #18
powersnail wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you run it at your home or on some VPS? If the latter, and if you don't mind my asking, where do you find affordable storage for your VPS? The biggest hurdle for me to use Nextcloud is that attaching a large storage to a VPS seems to be quite a bit more expensive than using Google drive, etc. My current VPS is on DigitalOcean, which asks for $100/month for 1TB storage. (To be fair to DO, the storage is SSD, but in…

I have a VPS for web hosting, but not enough storage for my Nextcloud needs. As mentioned by others, Hetzners Storage Box [1] has great value. I hooked up the latter to the former using Nextclouds External Storage and it works flawlessly. You could even think about running Nextcloud locally on a RaspPi and using this method to hook up cloud storage. [1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box [2] https://docs.nex…

Hetzner are great but you can't encrypt Hetzner Storage boxes. How do you keep your setup secured?
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