this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
75 points (95.2% liked)

Selfhosted

60093 readers
1191 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam.

  3. Posts here are to be centered around self-hosting. Please ensure it is clear in your post how it relates to self-hosting.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or git here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title.

  6. No trolling.

  7. Promotion posts require your active participation in selfhosting or related communities, or the post will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be self-hosted in full without payment, your post is exempt from this rule as long as you continue to engage in comments.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I've tried NextCloud before and didn't really love it and I'm now happy with a combination of syncthing and LibreOffice. But my wife wants the full google drive, with sheets, docs etc. without the google, and I think NextCloud is my best option for that.

I'm and experienced *nix admin and already have a Linux server running with both VMs and docker containers and also have a working OpenVPN setup for remote access. But I found the NextCloud setup frustrating. We had a discussion about it (here I think) and determined that this was because NextCloud would rather sell their hosted service, so they don't go out of their way to make the self hosted option easy. I get that and don't hold it against them at all.

But, now that I'm wanting to try it again, I'm looking for pointers to guides for setting up self hosted NextCloud. I've searched, but nothing I found seemed like "the one".

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I currently run the official Nextcloud-AIO. No issues once I got the reverse proxy figured out. That was a bit of a pain at the time. Caddy hadn't yet become a popular choice for reverse proxies.

I will say that Nextcloud really wants dedicated hardware, not a VM, or proformance will suffer. Still useable but it tends to to be a bit slower. Can't vouch for the office suite as I just don't use it.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried the AIO docker build I never got the file sync working at an acceptable level. Would be using piss all resources and still only syncing a few files a second.

Does installing bare metal make it faster, or is that not what you meant?

[–] StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

From what I've noticed, yes. Considerably.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to explain why, but something about running Baremetal --> VM --> Docker --> Nextcloud-AIO is massively slower than running Baremetal --> Docker --> Nextcloud-AIO. Hell, Nextcloud-AIO on a Pi4 was running faster than when I put it in a much roomier VM.

Someone tried to explain it to me but all I understood was that the databases don't like that. Something about nested virtualization restricting performance.

Oddly I didn't run into the same issue when I ran Nextcloud-AIO off of a Digital Ocean VPS. Not sure what they are doing differently, but that was running just as fast as bare metal.

[–] Nighed@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago

I was running on unraid docker, so no VM and it was still awful ☹️

[–] nexttech@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

what does your name mean ? just curious :)

[–] StrawberryPigtails@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's all good. The name came out a random name generator a while back. I liked the name enough that I started using it generally for my fediverse presence. No meaning beyond that.

[–] nexttech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh nice. I like it !