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What you guys are hosting instead of Nextcloud? I'm sick of it. (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Sudden_Cheetah7530@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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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.

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[–] r3dk0w@alien.top 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you're having issues with NextCloud being slow and having errors, it's probably because the machine you are running it on is low on RAM and/or CPU.

I bring this up because what ever replacements you try would likely have the same issues.

My NextCloud instance was nearly unusable when I had it on a Raspberry PI 3, but when I moved it to a container on my faster machine (AMD Ryzen 7 4800U with 16GB of ram) it now works flawlessly.

[–] sachingopal@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with this. It needs a good amount of CPU cycle and RAM. Raspi struggled for me too.

[–] lannistersstark@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My NC instance runs on a 24GB RAM, 4 CPU Ampere A1 host(Oracle), and still struggles. YMMV.

And it struggles as a photo backup host an i5-7xxx and 16GB RAM at home.

It's not absurdly slow, it's just...irritating sometimes.

[–] Defiant-Ad-5513@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whta db are you using

[–] lannistersstark@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Postgres.

Also using redis, did all the typical perf checks listed on NC site etc.

[–] brando56894@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

The backing database type and the storage it runs on are just as important too.