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Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by bassman9000 »

Brainspackle wrote: post #2

someone please help me understand all the hype about nextcloud. I've tried it and found it to be a bloated mess. Why would I want to run this over several smaller apps that do the job better, just without a fancy (if you could call it that) UI to tie it all together

bloated mess

Same. Setting up v20 for a customer these days. Heavy, slow. Buggy LDAP. Not easily containerized: official Docker image tries to rsync ALL the distribution from /usr to /var/www/html every time your start run the container, and you can't mount individual volumes (e.g. just data), because they keep the config at /var/www/html/config.php

Customer just wants a UI for a filesystem, and I'd gladly replace it if I could.

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by indigodaddy »

canofbars wrote: post #15
JadoJodo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. I used it for about two months and spent dozens of hours trying to help friends/family troubleshoot random glitches the clients had, the unintuitive encryption settings and hugely underwhelming performance that comes with S3-type storage. I loved the idea but it really is a bloated mess and I couldn’t trust it to work when I needed it to.

Tried remote storage and its slow like you mention, but once I ran it on a ryzen desktop with a hdd for storage the whole thing is incredibly fast and works great.

Hmmm, I have a small BuyVM Ryzen-based KVM vm (I think lives on local SSD storage but can’t remember) that’s been idling for quite some time— might have to give it a whirl, thanks.

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by bilal4hmed »

indigodaddy wrote: post #28
bilal4hmed wrote: post #25

I'm glad some of yall are mentioning cost. These articles while awesome usually don't mention the cost to operate and support such endeavors. I would like to host my own Matrix instance, but I have no idea what the cost would be monthly.

Oracle Cloud has the best Compute/VM Always Free Tier around (2x 1G RAM/50G VMs), which is likely sufficient for a small matrix/synapse server, so realistically you could do it for zero. I don’t know how much network transfer is included in their free tier, however (I’ve looked but never seen it clearly stated anywhere).

thank you so much for this, didnt know they had such a gracious free tier. The only thing I saw was "Outbound Data Transfer: 10 TB per month." but you are absolutely right, it isn't spelt out directly.

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by testxyz »

bilal4hmed wrote: post #25

I'm glad some of yall are mentioning cost. These articles while awesome usually don't mention the cost to operate and support such endeavors. I would like to host my own Matrix instance, but I have no idea what the cost would be monthly.

Test

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by testxyz »

bilal4hmed wrote: post #25

I'm glad some of yall are mentioning cost. These articles while awesome usually don't mention the cost to operate and support such endeavors. I would like to host my own Matrix instance, but I have no idea what the cost would be monthly.

Testing

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by randoramax »

newman314 wrote: post #30

Has anyone setup/used multi user calendaring and contacts on NextCloud? Currently considering this vs. a few standalone docker instances for calendars/contacts for one of my downtime projects over the next few weeks...

Does nextcloud still use caldav/carddav?

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by bilal4hmed »

kmclean wrote: post #29
bilal4hmed wrote: post #25

I'm glad some of yall are mentioning cost. These articles while awesome usually don't mention the cost to operate and support such endeavors. I would like to host my own Matrix instance, but I have no idea what the cost would be monthly.

That's a good point! I should add the total cost to the post. I mentioned I use the cheapest Linode server but didn't actually say how much that is. I pay $5/month (USD) for the server (except I got the first two months for free from some promo code I found on another blog), and $10/year (CAD) for carbon offsets. I also paid $5/year (USD) for the domain name I use.

awesome thank you so much for updating. Unless I missed it in your post, who is your domain registrar for the low price?

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by indigodaddy »

bilal4hmed wrote: post #33
indigodaddy wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oracle Cloud has the best Compute/VM Always Free Tier around (2x 1G RAM/50G VMs), which is likely sufficient for a small matrix/synapse server, so realistically you could do it for zero. I don’t know how much network transfer is included in their free tier, however (I’ve looked but never seen it clearly stated anywhere).

thank you so much for this, didnt know they had such a gracious free tier. The only thing I saw was "Outbound Data Transfer: 10 TB per month." but you are absolutely right, it isn't spelt out directly.

Ah ok I think I remember that and I wasn’t sure it that was linked to the LB service or the VMs. Perhaps/likely it’s either/both. In any case, wow 10TB is awesome. I think Google Cloud’s Free Tier transfer limit is 1G, which is one of the reasons I powered it down (the other being they started charging for external IP’s on the free tier compute instances).

Re: Setting up your own Nextcloud instance to get off of Google

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Post by kmclean »

bilal4hmed wrote: post #38
kmclean wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a good point! I should add the total cost to the post. I mentioned I use the cheapest Linode server but didn't actually say how much that is. I pay $5/month (USD) for the server (except I got the first two months for free from some promo code I found on another blog), and $10/year (CAD) for carbon offsets. I also paid $5/year (USD) for the domain name I use.

awesome thank you so much for updating. Unless I missed it in your post, who is your domain registrar for the low price?

I use namecheap.com. The prices vary a lot, I use a .cloud domain, I think obscure TLDs and domain name choices are cheaper, but I'm not exactly sure how their pricing actually works.
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