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Nextcloud at home 🏠 - Anyone have experience setting up your own cloud server? (nextcloud.com)

submitted 1 year ago by brihuang95@sopuli.xyz to c/foss@beehaw.org

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If so, how was the overall experience? Looks like a much better alternative than completely relying on Google Drive and you can't beat the price (free!)

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[–] drwho@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ran Nextcloud at home briefly, for maybe two weeks. Setting it up was fairly easy, but it was rather slow. Slow enough that I couldn't get anyone else in the house to use it for longer than ten minutes. Eventually ripped it down.

[–] Chobbes@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

This was kind of my experience too. I didn’t really use it for too much and everything about it was slow and felt icky, so I just haven’t bothered with it since. I think the only thing I really used it for was Nextcloud News for RSS, but I’ve since switched to FreshRSS, which I’m happier with. Actually, that’s not true… I used the WebDAV stuff to sync papers with iOS from git annex for annotation, and I kind of miss that, but not enough to set everything up again. It just felt heavy.