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Me as well I don’t like nextcloud at all

Need something like synology drive but open source

Notes: Memos

https://www.usememos.com/

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Calendar: still Nextcloud (caldav is fast enough in nextcloud, even with sqlite) or SOGo

https://sogo.nu

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Files: Owncloud OCIS (not the old PHP one)

https://owncloud.dev/ocis/

Did you try hosting it in a container? I've heard a lot of people had issues with dependencies, PHP, Apache until they moved to a container.

It doesn't solve the optimization though. That's still an issue for people I know who host nextcloud.

Trillium , file browser

Sadly there is no real alternative right now if you want anything close to what the cloud providers do. Synthing is the only thing I use that comes close to parts of it. Nextcloud is just a slow insecure mess.

Next cloud must be the worst piece of shit ever

I never stop seeing people complain about it :(

It sounds like the sync aspect was written by the crash plan folks.

Filebrowser for files, Trillium for notes

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

Don't use Nextcloud. Just use Syncthing to keep the files synchronized in all the different devices where you actually do the work.

Just came to say I self host baikal too for calendar and address book / tasks

use DavX on my Android phone to keep it in sync and thunderbird on the computer

Is there something better than DAVx5? It seems to be too battery hungry compared to Google calendar.

It's the right choice, nextcloud is buggy af, the issue from years ago where it randomly corrupts files is still open too, I got hit by that one and had to completely restore from a backup.

IMO Joplin is a better idea for note taking

I moved Nextcloud from k8s to a well provisioned lxc container and ran a couple of performance boosting commands and it's been working wonders since then

u/Sudden_Cheetah7530 We also use Nextcloud and deploy it on Kubernetes with our Open Source Nextcloud Operator and it works without any issues so far. I hope that helps you too

https://github.com/glasskube/operator

• Files --> syncthing, or ssh access, or vpn to samba
• Calendar --> I recommend radicale (but use google)
• Notes --> Obsidian notes on top of syncthing

I've been a loyal owncloud and then nextcloud user but am growing disappointed in the nextcloud android app. It seems like support/development is quickly degrading. There's a file upload conflict big that was introduced in an update in September? and they still haven't rolled back or resolved the issue. https://github.com/nextcloud/android/issues/11974

I use pydio cells for file sharing.

I would have nothing but issues if I ran the docker app on unraid and used the sqlexpress built in. I switched over to CasaOS and use Mariasql and the nextcloud container on it and it has been solid.

Owncloud.

I personally never caught the Nextcloud hype, and stuck with the original. So far I've heard (and seen, having tried it twoce) nothing but trouble from Nextcloud while my Owncloud install continues to be rock solid for going on 10 years (regularly updated, of course!).

I use linuxserver.io's nextcloud docker image. While I've seen people struggle to setup Nextcloud properly to the point of just giving and installing the snap version of it, I can count the number of times I've needed to do manual interventions for nextcloud with LSIO's nextcloud image. It works like a charm.

Did you switch Nextcloud from SQLite to another database?

Other than that, chances are, whatever makes your Nextcloud install slow will also affect Seafile or whatever else you replace it with.

I spent some time with top and iotop debugging my server performance problems. I found an issue that was completely unrelated to Nextcloud. Since I fixed it my Nextcloud instance has been completely reliable.

I looked into Seafile as well but disliked that it stores my files in some weird block format.

If you are willing to consider commercial products, I can recommend Synology DiskStations (at least the plus series). Samba shares are quite easy to setup, you can use Synology Drive to sync a folder between workstations and Android phones which I use for Obsidian for note taking. They also have calendar options, but I use a hosted account at posteo for that.

If you want to stick to nextcloud but don't want to host it, you could consider Hetzner Storage Share. It's fully managed and worked great for me so far. But I only use it to share photos with others, so not all features.

Perhaps you need something to trigger the webcron so things don’t slow down to a crawl. I use uptime Kuma to trigger the webcron every five minutes and have never had any issues.