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Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome! (lemmy.world)
submitted 23 hours ago by KingDingbat@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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So the last month or so I have started the slow transition of deGoogling and other efforts... its scary because I've been using Google for 20 years. But I have jumped into the deep end with NextCloud and I cannot believe this is free. My only wish is that it was easier so that everyone could do it. It's pretty complicated but at the same time, so worth it to learn how!

If you have a web server and any experience managing hosted tools like Wordpress at all I highly recommend NextCloud. It's free software (you'd pay for hosting though...) and can replace all your Google producs and more: Gmail, Calendar, Tasks, Meet, Docs/Drive, Photos, Keep, Contacts, Google forms, Doodlepoll, Docusign, and more. It's even got a pretty cool self-hosted maps tool, but I haven't really played with the viability of replacing Google Maps with that yet. It's also got a self-hosted password manager, a recipe keeper and bookmarks manager if you want it (and more.)

Self hosing NextCloud has a steep learning curve if you're a beginner, but you can do it. The support community is pretty responsive and engaged. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are service providers who will host and support it for you with little effort from you, but that would remove the self-hosted data benefit (although most are data privacy centered).

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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I agree about separating the services. In the past I had problems upgrading owncloud/nextcloud with too many plugins. It was difficult to keep all data between the versions.
Now I'm using Baikal for calendar/contacts, Silverbullet for notes and Linkding for bookmarks.
Currently I use these services by VPN only, so file sharing isn't really useful. I could reach all my files there by SMB and I don't dare to provide my services openly. For that alone Nextcloud was great, but I don't trust my setup enough to share it with the world again.