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

Complaints seem to come mostly from people trying to run it on ARM, maybe NC isn't optimized for that architecture.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 points 1 year ago

It runs equally awful on my x86 server as on my ARM server. The issues to me are more like "hacking" config.php to turn off auto-fetching ALL link previews and now that block doesn't work anymore. It's a serious privacy concern.

It's about all them important fixes that we've been waiting for, all them "killer apps" that never works quite well and all them "new technology" features that gets lumped onto users who begs for at least a toggle to turn it off but no. The designers knows best, even if their implementation breaks NC's own design rules.

And now we're on the AI train. I doubt there will ever be a way to turn off the mail "prioritized" inbox that doesn't work. I doubt we'll get that E2EE that NC's been touting for what feels like a decade. I big doubt we'll see Nextcloud Social for the Fediverse. And so many other things officially presented by NC as core components.

It just gets worse and worse and if there were any reasonable alternative, I'd definitively consider switching.

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

I'm not entirely convinced that NC is optimised at all!

[–] MayonnaiseArch 1 points 1 year ago

It's not, it always runs like shit. And I say that lovingly