I use it quite often, but only recently began contributing. And as they (very) wisely say at the bottom of the wiki (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions):
WARNING: OpenStreetMap is highly addictive Take frequent breaks, there is a lot to be done.
Hello, long time FOSS user here, I landed in SDF and the Fediverse a few weeks ago, but just noticed the hello world post. I am still adapting and finding my place, but I am VERY happy with the experience so far! Also, I find myself participating much more than in the "other" site, probably because the general feeling and tone around here is quite good and relaxed.
I am not sure what are the conditions/benefits provided by MetaARPA level, but my guess is that any NC access would be provided only to your specific SDF account, and with limited space/bandwidth.
And if you plan to offer family/friends with access... Well, I wouldn't want auntie Alice to see uncle's Bob backup folders and say "oh, I don't need any of this crap, I will delete it so @jdh knows how a nice user I am".
Save yourself some headaches and consider the basic plan from hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share), and just create a user (with quotas!) for each member that needs access. The service literally takes care of everything, and you only will need to remember to check that your apps are still properly enabled after they perform any updates or maintenance (and they will be perfectly fine 99% of the times, with the other 1% just requiring you to click on enable/update for some specific app).
Learn from there and then you can grow to bigger plans or, if you really feel the need to it, go full ahead hosting your own instance (maybe initially a cheap droplet in digital ocean, or a compute instance in scaleway, so you can learn the basics and break things). Next level? Pick a bigger instance or one of the real servers from hetzner's auction and go nuts. But always remember: auntie Alice won't be happy if your tinkering risks her collection of funny cat pictures. Always keep a backup of the backup (and test that it works!)
Always consider that just moving into nextcloud gives you much more control over your data than with any google/microsoft/somethingsomething service, since you can always just launch another nc instance anywhere else and move everything there. But at the end you ALWAYS must trust someone (your providers, your vendors... your users) and if you REALLY are paranoid about some unauthorized actor accessing your information, then self hosting in your own dedicated hardware is your only way, and that costs time and effort.
Regards!
Sure, but I think it would be better to keep the conversation here, so others maybe can benefit from it.
But if you feel like you need to, feel free to send a message.
Regards.
P.S. Related: https://xkcd.com/979/
I personally use and recommend nextcloud. I choose it due to licensing (nextcloud is 100% open source, whereas owncloud has an open source edition with the enterprise edition being propietary).
Besides that, the main difference between owncloud/nextcloud is that owncloud feels more "enterprise" oriented and offers its professional service as a 1st party SaaS, while nextcloud offers the service mostly through partners (like Hetzner, Ionos, Fujitsu...). However in both companies the 1st party services are quite "big" and expensive for most of us mere mortals (minimum of 25/100 users, with pay per user). You probably will have enough with self-hosting or 3rd party providers.
Also although in the past it took a while for nextcloud to really differentiate itself from owncloud and gain traction, currently nextcloud development moves REALLY fast, which is a great thing for its capabilities (but a bit of extra work and headache to maintain a self hosted instance up to date), and the software has improved drastically in the past years.
From what you are describing, hosting your own nextcloud seems to fit your needs perfectly. Since you also seem to need websites, maybe a VPS instance with tons of storage where you deploy and manage your own service? If you go this way, as other have commented, I would recommend learning and using the docker images, since they will make your life easier in the long run, and will help with the websites/nextcloud living together happily in harmony.
However, for security, I personally recommend to separate the hosting and nextcloud services. I use a managed nextcloud instance (for ease of mind: someone else takes care of the updates, back-ups and security of my storage), and then the website hosting in a different service, so if I make a mistake in my web server I don't risk my personal or family files. I have experience and currently recommend Hetzner for the NC instances (Storage Share), but also have worked successfully with Scaleway using a compute instance to self-host nextcloud, linking it to their Object Storage for the filesystem.
With NC you can create subdomains, assign users and set quotas, define what they can do or not (like for example, sharing files or folders outside of the instance, for how long, allow public uploads...), lock down the instance with 2FA and IP filtering... Nextcloud is really customizable, and has a lot of possibilities if you want to extend it through the apps (like collaborative document editing, or audio/video conference). I have used it for several years with the clients in Linux, Android, Windows, and once you configure it as you want, it simply works.
Good luck!
Another vote for the Hetzner hosted nextcloud instances (which they call Storage Share, do not confuse with Storage Box which is a FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/whatever... service).
I self hosted NC in a VPS for years and not having to worry about the updates/backups is a blessing. Having used Hetzner for more than 2 years, even the smallest plan works flawlessly, and you can use several domains or subdomains to segregate your users.
EDIT: typo
Beautiful. Well done!👏👏👏👏
25 years ago I fell in love with the M68k trainer board we used at the digital design classes. My teacher saw my enthusiasm for the elegance and simplicity of the architecture, and recommended me to find an ST to work with it, but all the available ones in my area were horribly out of reach for my meager economy at the time.
And... emulators are merely a placebo for the real drug.
I hope you are enjoying your beauty and may be able do for many more years. I am truly jealous and happy!!!
Down the memory lane! At that time downloading a full distro with my poor 33.6k modem was an unfeasible nightmare, and I remember buying the Mandrake Powerpack box with several CDs, books... and stickers! I fondly remember how the included assistants (diskdrake and similar "drake" tools) tried to make things easier for newbies like me... and of course they only worked half of the time!
Kepass (and Keepass2Android) + Nextcloud instances to keep sync and backups
Sad news! A mythical character from my youth, I have enjoyed so much reading his books. Without doubt, he has been an inspiration for a whole generation of security professionals.
Fuck cancer.