Nextcloud Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to Nextcloud

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better Nextcloud alternative or higher similarity.

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  • The Home Server Journey - 6: Your New Blogging Career
    13 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2024
    If complete self-hosting is a must, I now need some file server capable of generating shareable links, to be used in my Markdown image components. In summary, Syncthing is great for Dropbox-style backups, but can't share links, NextCloud is too resource-heavy and Seafile is interesting but apparently has proprietary encryption, which left me with the lightweight Filebrowser
  • Ask HN: Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Sep 2024
    In my opinion it’s not a good alternative if you or your team members expect exactly the same quality of service. When you switch to Nextcloud you’ll have to expect more bugs, less reliability, less performance and obviously more maintenance (since it's typically self-hosted) compared to Google Drive, Dropbox or One Drive. So you'll have to go into this with a different kind of mindset. What you gain is independence and extendability due to a rather big platform ecosystem.

    E.g. here are some specific things and examples of things you'll have to deal with, in no specific order. These are just some things I've had to deal with recently.

    - You'll have to educate people in your group that there are at least 3 different ways to share files among each other and that they can all coexist in parallel (Individual Shares vs. Group Shares vs. Group folders vs. Circles/Teams) (I did a german blog post on this: https://bitbetter.de/blog/nextcloud-freigabe-chaos/)

    - Handling of file/folder names with special characters is a mess e.g. if you have Windows and Linux clients there will most certainly be conflicts. (Luckily this has been fixed recently by the `forbidden_filename_characters` config option – which is not enforced yet via the Web UI) see https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/issues/2802

    - Creating Nextcloud users with spaces in their names, will break CalDAV on iOS Devices (https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/15641)

    - Nextcloud (aka Collabora) Office is very slow if you want to actually work collaboratively with it (no matter the power of your Collabora server) – unfortunately it's no match for Google Docs or Office 365

  • Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2024
  • 'Server': Your Private, Secure Nextcloud Server for All Data
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2024
  • OpenBSD Upgrade 7.4 to 7.5
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2024
    See Configuration and syntax changes and Special packages. The latter this time includes changes around PostgreSQL, which should be upgraded to 16.1.
  • Nextcloud – open-source content collaboration platform
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2024
  • The Ultimate Guide to Awesome Self-Hosted Solutions
    3 projects | dev.to | 30 Jul 2024
    Nextcloud——File Sharing and Collaboration Platform
  • The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software
    73 projects | dev.to | 10 Jul 2024
    Website: Nextcloud
  • Ask HN: Online File Repository System?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2024
  • Happy 20th Anniversary, Gmail. I'm Sorry I'm Leaving You
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024
    It really is hard to leave Gmail when all of your data has been conveniently stored therein. This is one of Google's retention strategies and it is indeed brilliant.

    That said, there's a vast number of self-hosted alternatives like Stalwart Mail (email) [1], Immich (images) [2], NextCloud (Google Docs) [3], etc.

    [1] https://stalwa.rt

    [2] https://immich.app

    [3] https://nextcloud.com/

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nextcloud/server is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.

Nextcloud is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of Nextcloud is PHP.


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