Nextcloud
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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 (AGPL-3.0)
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- HUAWEI AppGallery
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I've run Nextcloud in production on my own hardware for over 3 years, and I use it daily for two companies, my family, and a nonprofit. I self-host it, so this is written from the admin side, not as someone who tried a hosted demo for an afternoon.
What it actually replaces: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, mostly. Files, calendar, contacts, and Talk for meetings. Once your photos and documents are in it, the sync clients on desktop and mobile are genuinely fine, and the "my data is on my...
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winget install -e --id Nextcloud.NextcloudDesktopbrew install --cask nextcloud
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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...
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've run Nextcloud in production on my own hardware for over 3 years, and I use it daily for two companies, my family, and a nonprofit. I self-host it, so this is written from the admin side, not as someone who tried a hosted demo for an afternoon.
What it actually replaces: Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, mostly. Files, calendar, contacts, and Talk for meetings. Once your photos and documents are in it, the sync clients on desktop and mobile are genuinely fine, and the "my data is on my hardware" feeling is not a small thing.
What it does well: file sync and sharing including public share links that actually work. Groupware good enough to leave Google Calendar behind. The app ecosystem is real, so it stops being just a file server. And data ownership. You can export everything. Nobody can revoke your account.
Where it's genuinely hard, and you should know this before you start: setup and upgrade maintenance are the real cost, this is not a one-afternoon install if you want it reliable. Performance tuning matters, default database and PHP settings are not enough once you have real volume, and if you skip it you'll conclude the sync client is slow when the real problem is the server. Apps can break each other on major version upgrades.
Who it's right for: anyone serious about owning their stack who will either learn the maintenance or pay someone to handle it. The software is free. The labor is not.
Who it's wrong for: someone who wants set-and-forget Dropbox. Self-hosting means you are the vendor now. That is the point, and it is also the job.
Better than Google Drive
It's one hell of a multitool to move your digital infrastructure to a provider of your choice, including yourself if you have the reasonably small set of skills to set it up. While the core only handles file sync and sharing, it also has an app system which expands its scope practically as far as you want: calendars, contacts, tasks, messaging, document collaboration… said app system, however, is decent, but not great. Apps outside of the most popular ones don't update very often, and this can hold back the upgrades of Nextcloud itself. And its roots in PHP complicate first-time setup to this day, starting with the awkward choice between Apache and nginx. The AiO container was probably meant to solve this, but last I checked, I could neither migrate my existing container installation to it without a lot of tinkering under the hood, nor have it alongside other applications on the same machine. It's all solvable and once you've got it running it will probably just work for years to come (like it did for me). It comes with good security defaults, a checklist to clear and a good pluggable mechanism of two-factor authn.
Using it for one year and I think its the best Onedrive alternative. Intuitive UI, many customization options and many other cool things that I cant list in one comment
But I want to point out that its soo cool to have this app store. You can play around with the apps and a lot of them are very useful. E.G I use PowerAmpache2 to stream my Music Library via Nextcloud Music.
I use Nextcloud for my computer club, and it works great, without any problems!