I'm so happy to see this, I'm a huge fan of Nextcloud since I switched from Dropbox and couldn't been happier. I never seen such a high quality PHP project, it's really simple to operate and upgrade!
EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
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Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#12The recent changes to Dropbox incited me to finally build a home NAS/personal-cloud server based on Nextcloud last month. My first impressions were a bit negative, as I was expecting "open source Dropbox" and nothing more; Nextcloud actually does quite a lot, which made me think it was bloatware. This is due to my ignorance and jumping in too fast. What Nextcloud actually is: a personal Dropbox-style server, with ope…
Thanks for sharing this. I've been interested in creating my own setup, and I was wondering if you've setup an off-prem backup solution, and what you're using for that?
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#13France/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany is an interesting mix. (Edit: removed incorrect information.)
Nextcloud has been around since 2010 (insert boring digression about a fork here).
Dunno what your threshold for abandonment is, but that’s already a better shelf-life than most profit-driven startups.
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#14France/Netherlands/Sweden/Germany is an interesting mix. (Edit: removed incorrect information.)
NextCloud was an independent company well before it did anything government related. The only thing that's happening here is they appear to have struck a huge contract with a few EU countries to build internal clouds. I believe NextCloud is open source, and a fork of owncloud from the original owncloud developer who wasn't happy with the direction it was taking, or something like that. Also, they are a profitable com…
Ah, I see. Perhaps not as bad as first thought, then!
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#15The recent changes to Dropbox incited me to finally build a home NAS/personal-cloud server based on Nextcloud last month. My first impressions were a bit negative, as I was expecting "open source Dropbox" and nothing more; Nextcloud actually does quite a lot, which made me think it was bloatware. This is due to my ignorance and jumping in too fast. What Nextcloud actually is: a personal Dropbox-style server, with ope…
Thanks for sharing this. I've been interested in creating my own setup, and I was wondering if you've setup an off-prem backup solution, and what you're using for that?
Not yet. Currently living on the edge with a USB backup drive. I’d like to offload to Amazon Glacier but waiting for a rainy day to sort out IAM nonsense.
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#16Glad to see nextcloud getting more punchy support. Could be a big plus for everyone doing self hosting stuff
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#17The recent changes to Dropbox incited me to finally build a home NAS/personal-cloud server based on Nextcloud last month. My first impressions were a bit negative, as I was expecting "open source Dropbox" and nothing more; Nextcloud actually does quite a lot, which made me think it was bloatware. This is due to my ignorance and jumping in too fast. What Nextcloud actually is: a personal Dropbox-style server, with ope…
I have used Nextcloud for about two years and really like it as well; the only problem I have encountered is that the client sometimes slows down my OS X machine and it's not clear how to proceed in debugging the client.
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#18The recent changes to Dropbox incited me to finally build a home NAS/personal-cloud server based on Nextcloud last month. My first impressions were a bit negative, as I was expecting "open source Dropbox" and nothing more; Nextcloud actually does quite a lot, which made me think it was bloatware. This is due to my ignorance and jumping in too fast. What Nextcloud actually is: a personal Dropbox-style server, with ope…
Thanks for sharing this. I've been interested in creating my own setup, and I was wondering if you've setup an off-prem backup solution, and what you're using for that?
I have a cron job that copies the internal drive to an (encrypted) USB drive every night, and about every 3 months I sneakernet it to an offsite location (eg my parents' house in another state) and bring back the previously-stashed drive. It's nice to know my data is in multiple places I trust, and not plugged in. I also do a lot of digital photography (~1TB/year) so it's cheaper than cloud solutions (at least last I checked)
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#19Do EU Governments care about security? Has a proper audit of this monstrosity been done?
Or is this just another ploy to get better pricing?
Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud
#20Nextcloud is really cool. A coworker had initially set it up for an in-house place for our team to store more sensitive things that we didn't want floating around on confluence or google docs. It didn't last long. The legal team didn't like the AGPL license and we had to abandon the project. Too bad really, the interface is very nice and the file level encryption was a big plus.