I really really tried to like it, but I would constantly run into issues with files not deleting properly and would get database errors regularly. If the intent was to separate management of the underlying database, all it did was cause headaches.
Not to mention, not being able to easily just go under the hood to the file system and remove something drove me up a wall. Just let me delete my files, dammit!
I ended up just using a big-standard file share on TrueNAS.
The best NC setup, is uninstalling NC. Seriously, I spent a month getting that monstrosity to work and not bitch about configurations OUT OF THE BOX that it does NOT HAVE A UI FOR just to find out that half of the 'apps' are half-baked buggy messes and the other are out of date, half-baked buggy messes. A to-do system without repeating item availability was the last one I learned about before salting the earth of that hopeless project.
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Actually got me pissed off, thinking about it again. Jesus.
Right now I'm using a synology nas and its 1st party programs, but trying to break away to a more foss-friendly environment. Drive, Contacts, Calendar/Tasks, just work and don't require any fiddling so until a worthy opponent shows up, I'm kinda stuck.
I'm there too right now. Got a DS720+ but it's struggling a little since I'm also self hosting mail through it. I've been eyeing to use NC as a replacement for everything but do get mixed feelings from threads like these lol
I hope to in the future get a proper little mini PC with a disk enclosure in the future to have as a replacement for that however!
I've looked briefly into seafile; I'm fine, happy really, with the synology for file hosting, it's just the caldav, the photo management (I have immich but there's no easy way to move albums from syno to imm), stuff like that. And the fact that it all works together (reverse proxy, apps, web UI....) makes it illogical to move away for anything else than 'principle' or 'insufficient hardware'.
I have truenas running on a proxmox system but it appears it wants more than one drive? But I don't have matching drives for raid at the moment. That was/is something I'm looking into longer term, once I decouple the data from the services.
People have problems with Nextcloud? You only have to be careful when upgrading major versions of Nextcloud or its database. It's your fault if you're using the latest tag.
NC seems to either work completely or it doesnt, barely an inbetween there.
Its fine for me for two years and going. But I only have two users and maybe 200 GB of data. My 16 gigs of ram barely goes above 20%, my 4 thread oldschool xeon usually stays at <5% usage.
Doing sysadmin stuff for 20 yrs probably helps though.
Currently using Nextcloud AIO and it's pretty decent, though I've got 16 vCPU and 32 GB of RAM allocated to it right now, though it's only using 10% CPU and ~7 GB of RAM at the moment.
I think it takes a while to warm up once you start adding data to it, especially depending on the plug-ins you add and amount of data.
I'm running it decently on a Raspberry Pi 4B. No less latency than a commercial cloud solution like OneDrive in my experience. Could be faster, though.
Right? I’ve been using NextCloud/OwnCloud since ~2015. It’s a very standard LAMP app, nothing fancy going on at all. Give it enough memory and you’ll never have any problems, same as any other web service.
My only problem is trying to use it with the android app. I have to manually sync it like all the time which is a pain in the ass when I forget to do it before I go out the door and my shopping list isn't update. That and it won't sync files I create on the phone to the server
