Comment on Basic Homeserver with old Mac Mini
Luemen@lemmy.world 15 hours agoIs there anything inherently wrong with Nextcloud? I have been running it for years for some simple file backup stuff and never really thought twice about it. I was going to be trying to backing up all my iCloud photos and cancelling that plan so I’m glad I stumbled into this chat haha.
Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I am just really not a fan of it, I think it tries to do to much and does not do any of them well. You can setup seperate services for each thing that does just that one thing.
I have a bunch of pi 5’s running a bunch of services that replace all the Nextcloud things and much much more, I have a pi 4 running HAOS that backs up to one of my pi 5’s, and a pi 0 2 running cowrie. On top of that I have a Flint 2 running with a vanilla OpenWRT running a VPN and many vLANs, than I have a VPS that runs age encrypted backups and a few other small things of site.
Immich is what I used to get outside of iCloud, I do not remember if I ever used Nextcloud for photos. The reason I mentioned a few of the things in my homelab is to say that I have all the services and more to replace Nextcloud, while still keeping back ups with better security than Nextcloud.
I have almost degoogled all the way, I still have an account for youtube so that Google is. I have almost de-appled, I still have a iphone for another year and an ipad for some time longer. Why do I mention this? Same reason why I mentioned me not going through basic Nextcloud things, the Google and Apple do not touch my stuff. I have a finally tuned pihole setup to block more of Google and other trackers, I use searXNG to avoid Google to search the web. Why do I mention this? Do you use a hosted or a self hosted Nextcloud instance, if it is hosted there are likely trackers that see everything going in and out if it is self hosted and you do not have strong encryption there maybe trackers.
Sure a selling point of a hosted Nextcloud is encryption but there are ways around it let it be, brute force or social engineering.