I’ve been trying out a lot of different applications lately and wanted to see what there was in store for open source cloud storage solutions. I’m aware of Proton Drive, MEGA, NextCloud, and TrueNAS; though right now just using the first two. What services have y’all been using to fight against Big Brother?
Obviously, everyone will recommend Nextcloud. And yes, it works. But it is heavy and can feel slow.
I then moved to OwnCloud, the original project behind Nextcloud, which I found significantly faster. After that, I switched to OpenCloud, which is closely related to OwnCloud. It is less intuitive to set up, but it is extremely lightweight and very fast. That is the one I recommend.
Depending on your use case, there are plenty of other options as well, such as Seafile, Filerun, Filestash, Copyparty, and others.
It is less intuitive to set up, but it is extremely lightweight and very fast. That is the one I recommend.
I highly question the decision process to only include the lightweight and speed. There are much more important criterias to consider, like for example stability, maintainability, support etc.
I do not need yet another service that gets abonded 1-2 years after launch or goes subscription only etc.
Fair point, stability and long term maintenance absolutely matter.
I was mainly highlighting performance because that is often the main friction people, including me, report with Nextcloud for simple setups.
OpenCloud is not a random new project either, it comes out of the ownCloud ecosystem, so there is some history and structure behind it.
If you have specific alternatives you consider stronger in terms of governance or long term stability, I would be interested to hear them. It would help broaden the list of solid open source alternatives.
While lots of ppl will hate on Nextcloud, its pretty good. When you do the setup right, with cache and so on set up it’s fast and serves its purpose not only as cloud storage but as a collaboration platform where you can edit files with other ppl and much more.
If you only want a simple Web App to up and download files there are probably other solutions for that.
I think there are a couple for documents, crypt pad is one, and there is another that’s like a french based company I can’t remember the name of. Also murena.io I believe can offer an entire suite of cloud options.
Oh I’ve heard of Cryptpad! I’m simply using LibreOffice and Quillpad for writing and notes. Also installed Standard Notes to try it out. Should try Cryptpad out more lol.
I really like own cloud, it’s easy to configure and it does a good job. The web interface is nice and you can federate between instances making it easy to share data.
