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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 binaries
  • Calendar (with DAVx5): as sync server without web UI
  • Notes: simple note-taking
  • Network 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.

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[-] mtx0@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Filebrowser for files, Trillium for notes

[-] BadGroundbreaking243@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I used NC with postgresql, apps works fine and pretty smooth in everything. Compared to mysql it definitely feel faster.

But now I have no use for NC, I installed File Browser for file exploring. Super simple web file browser.

Focalboard, for kanban.

Obsidian with sync.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 11 months ago
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[-] public-snowplow@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Is there something better than DAVx5? It seems to be too battery hungry compared to Google calendar.

[-] viktormadarasz@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Just came to say I self host baikal too for calendar and address book / tasks

use DavX on my Android phone to keep it in sync and thunderbird on the computer

[-] IgnaceMenace@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

IMO Joplin is a better idea for note taking

[-] ProbablePenguin@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It's the right choice, nextcloud is buggy af, the issue from years ago where it randomly corrupts files is still open too, I got hit by that one and had to completely restore from a backup.

[-] kondorb@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Nextcloud is a large and complex application, it does need more resources than one would probably expect.

Nextcloud macOS and iOS apps make running it a no-brainer for me. Nextcloud on macOS works better than Google Drive.

[-] DzikiDziq@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Went from nextcloud to FileBrowser for web files access, with resilio/syncthing under the hood for synchronisation. My family couldn’t be happier, but yeah - we are not using calendar futures.

[-] pachirulis@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I moved Nextcloud from k8s to a well provisioned lxc container and ran a couple of performance boosting commands and it's been working wonders since then

[-] billFoldDog@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago
  • Files --> syncthing, or ssh access, or vpn to samba
  • Calendar --> I recommend radicale (but use google)
  • Notes --> Obsidian notes on top of syncthing
[-] OhMyForm@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I love the idea of nextcloud but it really seems pretty hostile towards hosters I would suggest looking at something like Cryptpad which is at least an upgrade to your personal security.

[-] 12_nick_12@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Nextcloud was painfully slow on a cheap HDD based VPS, I finally moved it to SSD and it's been fast. With redis and SSD its quick. I'd take a look at your system to make sure that's not the cause.

[-] thekubernaut@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

u/Sudden_Cheetah7530 We also use Nextcloud and deploy it on Kubernetes with our Open Source Nextcloud Operator and it works without any issues so far. I hope that helps you too

https://github.com/glasskube/operator

[-] The-Dirty-Dave@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Good ole manual file sharing and syncthing for my phone pics

[-] kinl99@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Files: SYNCTHING CalcardDav: Baikal Notes: Obsidian with livesync plugin and a couchdb as backend ...yeah and webdav for folder shares inside apples files app

[-] malferro@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Files: Seafile
Calendar: Radicale
Notes: Joplin
Network Folder: N/A

[-] pcs3rd@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I use pydio cells for file sharing.

[-] Warm_Feature_7302@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Cl4whammer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Did you tried installing it with snap?

Its just snap install nextcloud and you are done. No config no manual updates and iam having a good time with it. It was a bit tricky to change the main storage folder to another hdd, but its possible.

That maybe fix your Performance issues too if there is something configured wrong, in the other hand snap is a bit slower then a normal install.

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[-] Croatwink@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Did you try hosting it in a container? I've heard a lot of people had issues with dependencies, PHP, Apache until they moved to a container.

It doesn't solve the optimization though. That's still an issue for people I know who host nextcloud.

[-] lywyu@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Complaints seem to come mostly from people trying to run it on ARM, maybe NC isn't optimized for that architecture.

[-] valdearg@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'm not entirely convinced that NC is optimised at all!

[-] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

It's not, it always runs like shit. And I say that lovingly

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[-] pachirulis@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I moved Nextcloud from k8s to a well provisioned lxc container and ran a couple of performance boosting commands and it's been working wonders since then

[-] greenvortex2@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I've been a loyal owncloud and then nextcloud user but am growing disappointed in the nextcloud android app. It seems like support/development is quickly degrading. There's a file upload conflict big that was introduced in an update in September? and they still haven't rolled back or resolved the issue. https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/11974

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