I didn’t use OwnCloud, but I haven’t had much issue with Nextcloud. I run it bare metal on a pi 4 and haven’t had issues with resource hogging. Getting php to work when the update to php 8 was a bit of a pain but eventually figured it out.
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sxan@midwest.social 1 month agoHave you ever used OwnCloud, before the fork?
I hated administrating OwnCloud, and that’s kept me away from NextCloud. OwnCloud was a big, resource hogging, hot mess; did NextCloud do a huge refactor and clean it up?
feannag@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
oranki@piefed.social 1 month ago
No, I haven't tried OC. Lot of people still prefer it over NC. I think both have come quite a long way since then.
I wouldn't say Nextcloud is hard to maintain, even less so if you keep the number of apps to a minimum. The initial setup may require some work, but small instances are mostly plug and play.
Note that I've never used AIO. If going for containers, the community images are better, despite AIO advertised as the official method. I recommend using Podman, check out
https://github.com/0ranki/nextcloud-previews
Also a blog post: https://oranki.net/posts/2025-01-02-self-hosting-my-way5-nextcloud/