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.

  • xiongmao1337@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is concerning to me because I’ve been considering ditching Synology and spinning up nextcloud. I like Synology drive but I’m tired of the underpowered hardware and dumb roadblocks and vendor lock-in nonsense. I’m very curious what you end up doing!

    • jimheim@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Nextcloud is great. I don’t doubt that OP is having problems, and I understand how frustration can set in and one might throw in the towel and look for alternatives, but OP’s experience is atypical. I’ve been running it for years without any issues. I should point out that I only use it for small-scale personal stuff, but it’s good for me. I have it syncing on eight devices, including Linux, MacOS, and Windows desktops; Android phone; iPad; Raspberry Pi. My phone auto-uploads new camera photos. I’m using WebDAV/Fuse mounts on some machines. Everything is solid.

    • qfla@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Also not OP. I run nextcloud on 10th gen i3 on spinning rust and performance is good. I run it on LXC container though so without docker

    • dangernoodle01@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      A confirmed, yet still not resolved bug caused me and about 200 other people lose data (metadata) for tons of files. Well, at least 200 reacted to the GitHub bugreport I filled. I think you can easily find it because it’s the most upvoted yet unresolved issue.

      Besides this, it’d often give random errors and just not function properly. My favorites are the unexplained file locks: My brother in Christ, what do you mean error while deleting a file. It’s 2023 holy shit, just delete the damn file. It’s ridiculously unreliable and fragile. They have tons, thousands of bugreports open - yet they focus on pushing new, unwanted social features to become the new facebook and zoom. They definitely should focus on fixing the foundation first.

    • rangerelf@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Not OP, but I run it on docker with postgres and redis, behind a reverse proxy. All apps on NC have pretty good performance and haven’t had any weird issues. It’s on an old xeon with 32gb and on spinning rust.

      • ilikepie71@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Do you have redis talking to nextcloud over the unix socket or just regular TCP? The former is apparently another way to speed up nextcloud, but I’m struggling to understand to get containers using the unix socket instead.

        • rangerelf@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          I have both Postgres and Redis talking to Nextcloud through their respective unix sockets; I store the sockets in a named volume, so I can mount it on whatever containers need to reach them.