I am hosting more than 10 services currently but only Nextcloud sends me errors periodically and only Nextcloud is super extremely painfully slow. I quit this sh*t. No more troubleshooting and optimization.
There are mainly 4 services in Nextcloud I’m using:
Files: as simple server for upload and download binariesCalendar(with DAVx5): as sync server without web UINotes: simple note-takingNetwork folder: mounted on Linux dolphin
Could you recommend me the alternatives for these? All services are supposed to be exposed by HTTPS, so authentication like login is needed. And I’ve tried note-taking apps like Joplin or trillium but couldn’t like it.
Thanks in advance.
What exactly have you tried to do to address your nextCloud problems?
- Syncthing for files.
- Proton calendar (so not self hosted)
- Joplin, using file based sync with aforementioned syncthing. I saw you didn’t like it though.
- I occasionally use scp
For calendaring, I also went with the option of syncthing via DecSync. I can get my contacts and calendar on Android and Thunderbird, so I can avoid yet another unnecessary webapp.
This does look cool! But I notice that there’s really only one contributor (technically two, but the second only did one tiny commit) and they haven’t contributed any code in over a year. I don’t want to invest too much time migrating to a stale if not dead project.
Honestly, I think that the lack of commits is more due to the application being feature complete than “dead”. I’ve been using it for at least 3 years now and it works quite well.
That’s a fine point! You talked me in to checking it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
I would have nothing but issues if I ran the docker app on unraid and used the sqlexpress built in. I switched over to CasaOS and use Mariasql and the nextcloud container on it and it has been solid.
Don’t get me wrong NextCloud is great and has a lot of helpful features out of the box, but I moved from this to just use;
- Samba: for mounting drives shares.
- CalDav: for shared calendars.
- CardDav: for shared contacts.
- Memos: for note taking, great little room that allows Markdown note with tagging for easy search and filter.
- Espo CRM: for logging communication with businesses, like utilities providers (comes in handy to refer to during disputes)
I’m also looking at installing a self-hosted office suite for word and Excel documents but haven’t set this up yet.
I would say Seafile, and especially their webserver “seahub”, which is written in Python and Django, is just pure garbage. I’m using Seafile since 2012, and I’m honestly so sick of its problems. It just crashes for no good reason, and the encryption is extremely mediocre (there’s been issues about it). I have it behind my VPN so security isn’t a big deal.
Because it’s written with the garbage Python + Django, just try moving your installation to a new version… and you’ll be stuck with a very specific version of a bunch of libraries or otherwise seahub won’t even launch… and to make it even better, you don’t get anything on stdout/stderr to tell you what’s wrong, unless you launch Seahub in a specific configuration mode (WSAPI or something?).
Seafile has become so bad that I stopped caring about tracking its issues. I set my docker container to just restart on health checks’ failure, and forgot about it. My status tracker shows that it’s shutdown, and eventually it’ll restart. “Hey look, Seafile is down.” And I respond “That’s OK, dear, just give it another 15 minutes and it’ll restart”. This is my status on Seafile.
I think Seahub needs a complete revamp.
Those guys coded Seafile like a decade ago and they don’t care about fixing it anymore. Github is cluttered with issues.
Next cloud must be the worst piece of shit ever
I never stop seeing people complain about it :(
It sounds like the sync aspect was written by the crash plan folks.
I don’t know of any decent calendar sync. DecSync seems pretty abandoned.
I’ve been using it for syncing with Android and my linux machines for 3 years already.
Give Radicale a try for CalDAV and CardDAV.
Take a look at Cloudreve
Sounds like you need a Synology NAS…
