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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

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Post by wtdata »

I used Nextcloud for more than one year, but in the end I found it too bloated for my usage and I kept having problems with some outstanding bugs in it.

I finally moved to Syncthing one year ago and never had to configure anything else. I have it running in a docker container that gets automatically updated and needed zero configuration since then. It's also much faster at syncronizing files than Nextcloud was, and doesn't need a central repository.

If you don't need Nextcloud fancy features and just want a Dropbox self hosted alternative, Syncthing should be the way to go.

https://syncthing.net/

Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

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Post by compuguy »

wil421 wrote: post #3

Do EU governments not have something like FedRamp? I work on a popular SaaS product for enterprises. At my last job I supported a managed service provider who was going after some federal IT outsourcing business. AWS has FedRamp instances in DCs no one else uses. Same with the SaaS system I work on. They had all kinds of restrictions including only allowing US Citizens to access the systems.

You're referring to AWS's GovCloud regions, right (https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/)? I also believe Microsoft has a eqivalent product (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/gove...)

Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

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Post by zepearl »

Just asking: the new plans of "Owncloud" won't have any repercussion on "Nextcloud", right? Question based on 1) the fact that Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud and 2) this post...

https://owncloud.com/owncloud-infinite-scale-owncloud-unveil...

...as reported e.g. here (I had problems loading the above page):

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https:/...

Meaning: Nextcloud won't follow a similar direction, right? Thx

Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

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Post by nominated1 »

cafxx wrote: post #24
nominated1 wrote: post #19

Do EU Governments care about security? Has a proper audit of this monstrosity been done? Or is this just another ploy to get better pricing?

Sounds like someone didn't bother reading the linked page...

Those quotes read like typical PR statements made by politicians. I was hoping for a bit more.

I can’t find it now but it wasn’t long ago that the NextCloud (or was it OwnCloud) FAQ had a note about security that read something like “we’re busy adding features we’ll get to security later”. It left me feeling uneasy. I would have hoped security would have been part of the design. Maybe I’m just getting old...

Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

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Post by secfirstmd »

glup wrote: post #17
Eric_WVGG wrote: post #7

The 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.

Does Nextcloud have end to end encryption on it yet? I'm a fan of it but until it does I might wait

Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

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Post by Eric_WVGG »

secfirstmd wrote: post #27
glup wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Does Nextcloud have end to end encryption on it yet? I'm a fan of it but until it does I might wait

Yup. https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-13-brings-secure-file-s...

Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

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Post by Aeolun »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #7

The 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…

To give the opposite view, my experience with Nextcloud was a disaster.

The setup was painful, the UI would randomly not respond to my requests, and in general it just felt like a bad PHP hobby project.

Then to top it off their sync client basically deleted half of my photo collection for some reason, and nobody seemed to have any idea why, in general adopting a ‘that sometimes happens, just reset the sync client’ stance.

I mean, that’s cool, but meanwhile it’d synched the deletion across all my machines.

Thankfully I had everything still synched to Google Drive as well, but I need to be able to trust my sync client.

Re: EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

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Post by Aeolun »

LinuxBender wrote: post #20

Nextcloud 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.

Why would the legal team care about the license in this case?
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