Just thinking of ditching nextcloud and its just too much for my family use. All i needis carddav, caldav and file sync. Have a Debian VM running on Scale and was thinking of using Cloudron docker install. Is this the way others are installing on VMs?
Radicale has been so good I’d forgotton it existed, carddav and caldav sorted. Unix principle at its best, do one thing well (or microservices for the newbies). Why are you dogwhistling for a closed source marginal replacement for syncthing ?
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
I switched to Radicale and couldn’t be happier, so lightweight no pain setting it up or updating. Supports CardDav for the addressbook and CalDav for calendar, tasks, notes.
Nextcloud is for Enterprises, not sor selfhosting anymore.
timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Disagree. I’ve self hosted nextcloud for years without issue.
Just go with what you need. Some only need contacts and calendars, others want the whole thing.
GunnarGrop@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I think that’s kind of what they meant. I’ve also selfhosted Nextcloud for years, but I only use file sync and calendar/contacts.
Lately I’ve been feeling that Nextcloud is too big and clunky for just that. Like it’s something I’d love to setup at work or for an org, but that it “feels” to heavy for home use these days.
I need to check out Radicale, I think.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I also selfhosted it for years myself. But I was adding more and more services to my server and it became clear that if I would want to keep Nextcloud I’d need a server with more CPU and RAM because when Nextcloud was running it would after half a day deadlock the server with a load of 120 so I had to hard reboot it twice a day.
After replacing it with radicale and syncthing I was able to run Mastodon and Lemmy on the same server additionally.
halm@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Completely agree about Nextcloud. The project rose to fame on selfhosters beta testing it, then buddied up to enterprise users and ditched the initial user base.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What do you do for file syncing, if you don’t mind me asking
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 weeks ago
Syncthing and I have it partitioned with:
So that I can decide what to sync to which device.Music is for example too big to sync to my Phone so I don’t. Family documents I also share with my partner. Password DB I sync with all my devices but not to anyone else.
Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Seafile has been great for me.
400gb, multiple users. Single sign in with Authentik.
Neon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I tried to use Radicale, but it was too much effort, so i started using Baikal instead.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 2 weeks ago
Haha, interesting, for me it was the exact opposite, I started with Baikal but it was too weird and I couldn’t get it up and running quickly enough and then I think I was not able to share my calendar with my partner or something, so I switched to Radicale.