Oracle recently changed their free VPS allowances, taking down my Nextcloud instance. I’m moving my file sync to a local machine but was wondering if anyone had any experience with alternatives, as Nextcloud AIO was a major pain in the ass to set up last time.
I used it for sharing WIP music projects so having a web interface where I can listen to audio files from a browser was really convenient. It seems however, that all apps offering this feature are just as heavy as NC.
I tried installing cloudreve, but the web media player seems borked on firefox.
Does anyone know any good alternatives, preferably ones which can run off a single docker compose file?
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Strong recommend for Seafile. It’s way faster than nextcloud, it has a good web ui, and nice clients on all platforms.
I can not express how much faster than nextcloud it is.
Obviously open source too.
Does it do proper file sharing like nextcloud i.e. multiuser accounts that sharefile folders?
Yes. Faster too.
OpenCloud is a simpler and lighter version of OwnCloud written mostly in Go. There is a docker compose version of it. Also there is a mobile application for it, as well, if wanted.
OxiCloud is a newer project written in Rust. It’s functional but it is still in development. Deployment is pretty simple and mostly docker. No clients yet outside of the web interface.
I thought opencloud was some other nextcloud fork but having just checked the website it looks like it provides multiple services not just file sharing
Instead of installing a massive all in one solution, why not install individual services specifically to cover your requirements? Navidrome for music consumption, synching to actually sync files, WebDAV and OnlyOffice for office docs, VLC, Kodi or jellyfin for video consumption, immich for photos, etc.
It will end up being much lighter and more specialised
Once I got comfortable with immich, I realized photos was my main use of nextcloud and immich was so much better. I replaced the rest of nextcloud’s functionality with syncthing+filebrowser quantum. Haven’t looked back since. Now I don’t have to worry about a nextcloud update randomly causing havoc (user error likely).
Ah, have you just solved one of the main limits i have for syncthing. I didnt know about this filebrowser quantum thing. My use case is that i have a keepass file i manage with my wife between devices and on the same laptop (two different debian logins). But really, but is the purpose of this tool? To replace your local kde dolphine for example? Trying to understand the usecase.
Mainly to browse remote files from my phone, allows me to access my documents from any device.
In my case it was Syncthing and Radicale that replaced basically all my Nextcloud use.
Nextcloud isn’t bad actually but you really need to use a lot of the million optional features to justify that behemoth.
Truely agree. I also did the nextcloud to syncthing+radical leap but still trying to effectively resolve proper file shating.
