Nextcloud
On-premises solution offering file sync, universal data access and collaboration through Nextcloud Files, Talk, and Groupware. Ensures secure, controlled data storage for enterprise with powerful privacy tools including encryption, fine-grained access, and a bug bounty.
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- Free • Open Source
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Germany
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Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
- Cloudron
- Snapcraft
- Docker Hub
- Raspberry Pi
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- Maoholguin published news article about Nextcloud Hub
Nextcloud Hub 10 Launches with a new open-source AI agent, improved file management & moreNextcloud has launched Nextcloud Hub 10, featuring an open-source AI agent designed to enhance user...
- Maoholguin published news article about Nextcloud Hub
Nextcloud Hub 9 launches with advanced federation, AI tools, and automation featuresNextcloud has launched Nextcloud Hub 9, focusing on decentralization by allowing the platform to op...
- Maoholguin published news article about Nextcloud
Nextcloud releases Assistant 2.0 and announces ‘AI as a service’ featuresNextcloud is partnering with key European cloud storage companies like IONOS to offer on-premise AI...
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Been waiting to post review for years. But now it's clear - they abandoned plans to make working autoupload feature, which is most important feature. It's still lagging, freezing, missing lots of photos, if you have more than few photos to autoupload and near empty directory on the server. It's to soft to say that it's unreliable.
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I love open source software, and in the story of NextCloud and its OwnCloud roots, I side - overall - with NextCloud. For reasons of freedom and openness and trying to make the world a better software place. But... I won't use NextCloud in the near future and the reason is that my needs aren't met by the NextCloud client. It seeks to allow me to sync my files between multiple computers. But I have - literally - hundreds of thousands of (very small, ie <100kB) files to sync. And the NextCloud client can't cope with this. It tries to catalogue everything and gets stuck, lags, and mashes up the sync. That was the case with OpenCloud's v9 client and it's true of NextCloud v11.
I love the idea of NextCloud, but it doesn't work for me.
If you're not a special case like me, try it; I think it might be worth your while, so you can escape the tyrrany of evil services like Dropbox and Google Drive, who have your number, can read your files and must give it to the NSA if asked without telling you.
Otherwise, spare a thought for the low price, reliable and EU-based seafile.de (now SyncWerk.com).
Yes, syncing hundreds of thousands of very small files is a though challenge and the current client isn't super good at it. However, we have made progress already and are working on a more complete solution - be sure to check it out again in half a year or so ;-)
5 years after auto upload still doesn't work...
After spending days deploying and redeploying Nextcloud, I eventually found a community created docker image, which worked great. Spent a few more days tweaking, configuring, and fixing all of the out-of-the-box issues... yes, it is literally created with failed health check items.
Finally, I presented it to a client of mine who was looking for cloud storage and team productivity software. They blew it to chunks. Hated many things about almost every application within Nextcloud. And honestly, they had good points and bad ones. However, when I started to look into the issues they were complaining about, I found that most of the apps (even the default ones) that are available have github issues in the hundreds, near the thousands, and the resolved issues are 10% of that number.
While I understand Nextcloud is open source, and community maintained, why would I willingly put myself in a scenario where a client is paying me for a software service that's so unbelievably broken from the start? Needless to say, I'm researching alternatives. Nextcloud doesn't have the developers to support it, nor the attention that it needs. No official support channels, a shite setup process, and bugs galore.
Been waiting to post review for years. But now it's clear - they abandoned plans to make working autoupload feature, which is most important feature. It's still lagging, freezing, missing lots of photos, if you have more than few photos to autoupload and near empty directory on the server. It's to soft to say that it's unreliable.
I use Nextcloud for my computer club, and it works great, without any problems!
I'm sure NextCloud is great for those who got there in time. I just now opened an account, but was required to pick a freemium/proprietary provider (out of only two options, 2 or 8 GBs) in order to register. Seemed to contradict what I'd understood to be the entire point of NC. NC also leaves it up to any new user to figure out most setup/configuration themselves, since we're using a middle-man in order to use NC. What used to be an easy set-up can now take many frustrating hours if you're not sufficiently knowledgeable. Disappointed to have missed the NC train.
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Advanced users may also enjoy other functionalities such as scheduling, file sharing, surveying, etc.
I used Nextcloud to store my photos and documents from my PC and phone, edit documents and internal communication using Nextcloud Talk. I also used the Nextcloud Notes app for my shopping and To-do lists.
I highly recommend Nextcloud for all its advertised features and to anyone who values privacy and transparency from their provider.
This is the best solution if you want to own your data. Run it on your own server and even access it anywhere with tailscale. So much better than any commercial cloud provider!