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Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

How nice of Google to highlight another Drive/One competitor to me.

Any reviews/feedback from current Nextcloud users? I do plan to eventually self host but would start off using storage included in the plan

Edit: many thanks for all the responses! I think I'll stick with my current Drive alternative for now (Mega) but will start reading up on the technical docs/requirements for Nextcloud, as I do want to self serve in the long run

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've been self-hosting it for about 10 years now. It's a castle built on sand (PHP): It's hard to install, hard to update, and becomes slower by the day, but once you have learned Docker, Apache, SSL and a bit of SQL, it works mostly reliable.

If you just want file syncronization you could just buy a hosted instance, and use Cryptomator for protecting your privacy. Then you can have Nextcloud in under 30mins.
If you want to store large amounts of data, or you also want to use Calendar, Collabora, Talk,... then self-hosting will be cheaper/more private. But it will require lot's of learning, far more than the ordinary person can do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

there's a website called homedrive.io that has a docker image for easy setup of nextcloud i've used it and it's pretty good and easy and i didn't have much experience self hosting at the time

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