On Jan 9, 2020, at 4:03 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 11:28:16 -0800 > "Mike C." <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'll replace Google Drive with one of these. Based on Thomas' >> statement that OwnCloud & NextCloud are akin to OpenOffice & >> LibreOffice, I lean more towards NextCloud. >> >> But Nextcloud, according to their web site, has blossomed into a full >> (bloated) software suite it seems. >> >> >> >> However, NextCloud also seems to be a paid for product of NCrypt >> Cellular, which also offers "Google-Free" secure mobile phone OSs and >> the Librem5 phone. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Yes, I use Nextcloud pretty heavily. I would not call it bloated, as > most additional functionality is provided via a plugin type system, and > even certain base functionalities can be disabled in the plugin section. > > If your going to set yourself up a Nextcloud instance definitely go > with the slightly more complex to setup but big payoff longterm > configuration of NGINX + PostgreSQL instead of Apache + MySQL. The > PostgreSQL is a much better and cleanly designed RDBMS and you won't > run into encoding issues as often. NGINX also scales way better than > Apache. > > This is coming from someone who was around using the software since > before the Owncloud->Nextcloud switch and having migrated from NGINX + > MariaDB to NGINX + PostgreSQL. > > If your ever looking for someone to help test your instance's > federation capabilities with I would be glad to do that. > Be careful with the upgrades. Sometimes they brick installs. Keep backups handy. I’ve run into that with both owncloud and nextcloud.
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