so, some random thoughts on #selfhosting decisions I've made as a technically-homeless semi-nomadic digital serf:
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so, some random thoughts on #selfhosting decisions I've made as a technically-homeless semi-nomadic digital serf:
it would benefit me to be "dogfooding" Nextcloud more than I do, because my partner in Wordpress crime and I are learning it in order to be able to sell services installing & maintaining it for people who don't want to use MS365 or G Suite.
I do use Nextcloud for purposes related to our business together, but I don't yet have a personal install.
for calendar, todo, and contacts I use an install of Baikal on a penny webhost, with aCalendar and Tasks.org on my Android device (a desktop frontend is an unsolved problem)
for notes & documentation, I use Tiddlywiki
for file sync, I use Syncthing.
Nextcloud could do all of this in one fell swoop, so why don't I use that instead?
the answer, in short, has to do with *resilience* - specifically in the context of life instability which leads to an occasional inability to pay bills.
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so, some random thoughts on #selfhosting decisions I've made as a technically-homeless semi-nomadic digital serf:
it would benefit me to be "dogfooding" Nextcloud more than I do, because my partner in Wordpress crime and I are learning it in order to be able to sell services installing & maintaining it for people who don't want to use MS365 or G Suite.
I do use Nextcloud for purposes related to our business together, but I don't yet have a personal install.
for calendar, todo, and contacts I use an install of Baikal on a penny webhost, with aCalendar and Tasks.org on my Android device (a desktop frontend is an unsolved problem)
for notes & documentation, I use Tiddlywiki
for file sync, I use Syncthing.
Nextcloud could do all of this in one fell swoop, so why don't I use that instead?
the answer, in short, has to do with *resilience* - specifically in the context of life instability which leads to an occasional inability to pay bills.
Good to hear your thoughts on this.
We also host Nextcloud for one client and also another instance for ourselves. I use it most for calendaring.
From here on out, though, we are looking for a different solution for "cloud" type file storage: an alternative to Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive.
We are pretty confident we've found a good solution in OpenCloud, a fork of OwnCloud Infinite Scale. Need to do some more testing, though.
https://github.com/opencloud-eu
#opencloud #cloud #onedrive #googledrive #nextcloud -
Good to hear your thoughts on this.
We also host Nextcloud for one client and also another instance for ourselves. I use it most for calendaring.
From here on out, though, we are looking for a different solution for "cloud" type file storage: an alternative to Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive.
We are pretty confident we've found a good solution in OpenCloud, a fork of OwnCloud Infinite Scale. Need to do some more testing, though.
https://github.com/opencloud-eu
#opencloud #cloud #onedrive #googledrive #nextcloud@matthew @surfhosting Oh my! Is this a Yoda kind of situation?
"..no, there is another!"
..i thought #Nextcloud was the only fork of OwnCloud! ..fascinating!
Edit: i've just read the GitHub readme - i'd only get "essential features" in my bare-metal/VM use case - i need proper block storage for LUKS-crypto, and i'm not learning how to frickel Docker(/compose) to achieve that. I'll remain in my comfy zone - a fat Nextcloud VM, via libvirt+virt-manager/virsh.
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@matthew @surfhosting Oh my! Is this a Yoda kind of situation?
"..no, there is another!"
..i thought #Nextcloud was the only fork of OwnCloud! ..fascinating!
Edit: i've just read the GitHub readme - i'd only get "essential features" in my bare-metal/VM use case - i need proper block storage for LUKS-crypto, and i'm not learning how to frickel Docker(/compose) to achieve that. I'll remain in my comfy zone - a fat Nextcloud VM, via libvirt+virt-manager/virsh.
Yeah, NextCloud is a fork of the original OwnCloud (PHP based LAMP stack platform) and now OpenCloud is a fork of OwnCloud Infinite Scale, same original company but next generation technology (not LAMP stack).
It surprised me, too. -
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Yeah, NextCloud is a fork of the original OwnCloud (PHP based LAMP stack platform) and now OpenCloud is a fork of OwnCloud Infinite Scale, same original company but next generation technology (not LAMP stack).
It surprised me, too.@matthew @platymew @surfhosting
been doing #owncloud for ~15 yrs, both for private use, for a university (500-1000 users, before it went all Microsoft) and for smaller projects among universities (1 - some 10 users).
For values reasons my solidarity is with #nextcloud, but i m still running both in parallel, for different projects.From a merely technical point of view, both work fine for me, but i m also very "give me simple tech" & "dont change unless broken".
will check #opencloud
