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> First Germany with Nextcloud
What are you referencing here? Seems like I missed something...
Edit: Ok, I found it myself here, sorry to disturb you.
- Sign up for an Amazon Cloud Drive or Google Drive.
- Upload all your data there, encrypted of course (I prefer rclone crypt)
- Sign up for a Scaleway VPS (https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ the 2.99/mo option is perfectly fine)
- Install Nextcloud on the VPS.
- Rclone mount your cloud storage drive to the VPS.
- Add the mounted directory to Nextcloud.
- Set up users to log into nextcloud and access whichever directories you want.
With ACD and Sacleway this works out to $8/mo and technically has unlimited storage and data transfer on the VPS.
This isn't hypothetical. I use this setup and it works great in my experiences. I have more than 25TB of data stored and have transferred more than 25TB in a single month through the VPS and neither Amazon or Scaleway said anything about it.
So talking about alternatives:
I use syncthing with my own Raspberry Pi 3 strapped to a hard drive that acts as a centralized always on server. That way I own my data. It's fast enough for me. There are no limits to hard drive space, but my download speeds correlate to my ISP's upload speeds when I'm not at home.
You can use Nextcloud as alternative to a centralized service. There are plenty of providers, many of them free. There's probably more that aren't listed there. Nextcloud also supports End to End encryption if you don't necessarily trust your provider.
EDIT: I was trying to rember a good free provider and then I remembered Allsync
Absolutely. Go download it and spin up your own version for your company today!
So what's the Enterprise stuff they offer? Well, if my NC is down because of some weird bug then I'm sad. If your business NC is down, you'll presumably lose money. So they're offering ways that they can help build a stronger NC (a home user is FAR less of a target than a business for criminals) & prevent NC from being down as often as most home instances (eg: during upgrades--be they system or NC) or power outages, etc.
This is all to say, setting up NC is easy. Running it at home isn't too bad. Running it for years when you'll get a call in the middle of the night when it goes down 10% of the time is hard.
It's also worth pointing out that there are other features they offer exclusively to businesses such as branding (you can replace the NC logo/info with your corporate logo/info) more detailed documentation on "enterprise setups" like High Availability (I'm bitter this was taken out of the documentation cause apparently it's too cool for home users </rant>).
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So if you want a few of those extra features they offer, a contact at NC (be it tech support for upgrades/downtime, initial setup/design, or to talk about buying custom capabilities), official help hardening your NC instance, and so on--THAT's what they're offering businesses.
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If non of that appeals to you (or your CEO/CTO/CMO), then by all means use the free version.
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I'd recommend Nextcloud.
To start you could install it directly following their instructions, or you can jump straight to docker which you can get set up pretty easily by following the link to GitHub and using their example files.
Nextcloud has a page with providers that you can purchase a Nextcloud instance through. Nextcloud also started offering client side encryption so you will not have to trust the provider with your data since they won't have access to it.
Currently using Nextcloud as my personal cloud. I self-host, but you should be able to use a VPS without any issue. I recommend using Docker to host (I use this image), as it makes setup/management easier for me.
Welcome on board!
This is a journey that will require a lot of time, practice, and errors in order to get you anywhere. The Open Source project which might be closer to offer most of Google Drive services is https://nextcloud.com/ it's well documented with plenty of tutorials online on how to install it and configure it.
I would start by trying to install it on your laptop or PC and see if you can access files/photos/videos from your phone. Once you got that up and running you'll be a little bit more familiar and confident in your skills!
The obvious next step is to have some sort of always on PC because when you shut it down you'll loose the ability to see your files. Here is where a raspberry pi comes in place: low powered, always on, tiny computer.
Have fun and feel free to ask for help!
Take a look at Nextcloud. It has file versioning, online editing of LibreOffice documents (Nextcloud has a partnership with Collabora Online Office), very nice access control (read only sharing is possible, too, even public sharing), a dropbox like application for windows/mac/linux, android and ios clients, ...
A HDD should be fast enough, however I don't think the Raspberry has enough power for that. you need stronger hardware.
By default nothing is encrypted on the storage, then there is server side encryption and what you want is end to end encryption. This is available and I'm using it for one of my folders. While it is working for me I've seen some users report instability. All I can say is: The sync to and from the client can take longer and you can't access encrypted data over WebDav or web UI (that's why I only encrypt the important stuff).
You might want to look into the Raspberry Pi 3+ if you’re determined to stay with that platform. It has gigabit Ethernet, though still over USB 2, and will serve up to 300Mbit/sec. (https://static.raspberrypi.org/files/product-briefs/Raspberry-Pi-Model-Bplus-Product-Brief.pdf)
I used to run a small army of RPi servers.
- One for bastion host
- one for Pihole
- one for Kodi
- A 4 node docker swarm for hosting various things like Sonarr/deluge/NZBGet
- A Nextcloud box (https://nextcloud.com/box/)
I’ve since grown tired of waiting for proper IO throughout, and moved on. The only surviving box is my PiHole box. The docker swarm was replaced by an Intel NUC Celeron box. Uses about 10-15W, and runs everything the swarm did along with Nextcloud and more.
I’ve begun playing with the Odroid-HC2 ( https://odroidinc.com/products/odroid-hc2-home-cloud-two )platform as a NAS using GlusterFS. It features dual USB3 busses, using one for Gigabit Ethernet, and one for SATA. It has 8 cores and 2GB ram, and costs about the same as a RPi.
Nextcloud can be hosted on your own server at home or on a server you rent from a hosting provider. There are also providers offering nextcloud as a service directly. See: https://nextcloud.com/providers/
If you know nothing about hosting a server, this last option is probably best for you. I cannot recommend any of the providers listed there, as I host Nextcloud on my home server, but maybe others can, perhaps on /r/nextcloud, as /u/Dev1nius suggests.
Get a VPS from a place like Digital Ocean.
Install Nextcloud.
Enjoy uncensored cloud data under your control.
~~Profit.~~ No profit, because a VPS isn't free (but it's cheap). But nothing is ever really free, and if you're not paying for it, you're the product. Don't forget that.
I've been doing this ever since I got pissed off at Dropbox for being scumbags.
The most secure alternative is probably Nextcloud. You can either host it by urself or your using a third party provider. Alternatively you could also use [Sync ](www.sync.com) (located in Canada e2e encrypted) or [pCloud](www.pcloud.com) (located in Switzerland) which I am currently using together with Cryptomator for enhanced security. Sync or pCloud is definitely a cheaper option. All of them offer an App which allows you to automatically back up your photos.
Nextcloud, only with end-to-end encryption. Takes more hardware to run E2E because you are constantly encrypting en decrypting.
https://nextcloud.com/endtoend/
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/end_to_end_encryption
But the app doesn't have a really good track record, if something breaks you can lose all your data, since everything is encrypted.
You can ask your family members to use something like Cryptomator. Creates a encrypted container to put your folder in, specially made for the cloud. Only they have the password.
I use Netxcloud https://nextcloud.com/ . Every time I take a photo/screenshot/whatever it is automatically syncs with my Nextcloud server. I can't recommend it enough.
It's like a private google drive, icloud, or drop box
Selfhost!
Get a raspberry pi or something and self host using next cloud. The data stays in your own hands, and raspberry pi doesn't take much space or power. There are native apps for different oses. You'll need a raspberry pi, static Ip, and HDD of the size you like. You can have other apps that protect your privacy and block ads like pihole, dnscrypt etc.installed simultaneously as well since the pi 4 is quite a powerful machine.
I use google one as well, but slowly I am shifting my work to.the pi.
I found some more images. Here's the case opened.
It doesn't seem that the Raspberry Pi's other USB ports will be very accessible, and this protruding cable is weird, imo.
Here are some great alternatives to Zoom if you are concerned about privacy:
Jitsi - Jitsi is a collection of free and open-source videoconferencing and instant messaging applications for the web, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
Nextcloud Talk - Nextcloud Talk is a fully self hosted, on-premises audio/video and chat communication service. It features web and mobile apps and is designed to offer the highest degree of security while being easy to use.
I use both of these regularly, and they work great. They have everything you need including video, audio, screen-sharing, chat, etc. They do not include harvesting of data that gets sent to oppressive, authoritarian governments...
Happy to answer questions and provide experiential information on them, for anyone interested!
You can set it to run on a linux box or on raspberry pi, for better privacy.
Or, you can use one of the free online servers available.
Hey! I believe something like Nextcloud would do. They provide a suite for cloud storage, videocalls, chat, email, calendar, and all of these can be synced between users of your organization. The UI is modern and intuitive, which is neat.
It's open source, privacy-friendly, and it doesn't cost much. Plus you can host it yourself or with any provider of your choice. Good luck with your biz! :-)
> Does anyone have other alternatives that are as reliable?
Simple answer: Nextcloud
It's owncloud just with a new brand, most developers (I read somewhere 9 out of 10) switched from owncloud to nextcloud a couple of weeks ago. Nextcloud is founded by the guy sending the tweet (Frank Karlitschek) - who was the founder of owncloud as well.
Answered my own question. Remove the $($filename) from the URL.
$NextCloudURL = "https://nextcloud.com" $ShareID = "FaAr3aBsGXwaXX6" $SharePassword = "hotIkxXnary47" $Header = @{ "Authorization" = "Basic "+[System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("$($ShareID):$($SharePassword)")); "X-Requested-With"="XMLHttpRequest"; } Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "$($NextCloudURL)public.php/webdav" -Headers $Header -OutFile c:\temp\birdie.jpg
Good news! The latest version of Nextcloud adds built-in collaborative editing.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-collaborative-rich-text-editor/
All core developers left Owncloud over some shitty anti foss practices and made Nextcloud which is a fork and future of Owncloud, Owncloud can be safely ignored, upgrade to Nextcloud.
Uso o NextCloud em casa. Deixo ele rodando no meu desktop com acesso somente pela minha rede local, e o celular sincroniza com ele. Tem controle de usuário e outras funcionalidades. Faço backup uma vez por semana pra um HD externo que deixo desconectado pra evitar ransomware.
Se quiser ter acesso externo pela Internet, pode instalar ele na nuvem numa VPS alugada, por exemplo. Até dá pra expor seu computador na Internet, mas acho meio arriscado se você não tiver muito conhecimento no assunto.
The full announcement is live, go nuts: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-16-introduces-machine-learning-based-security-and-usability-features-acl-permissions-and-cross-app-projects/
Hi,
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-social-features-joins-the-fediverse/ is probably helpful - in simple terms, Nextcloud is a Mastodon server itself and can simply connect to others. You can follow people from other mastodon servers and they can follow you!
You can follow me from @ ;-)
The app is still basic and a lot has to be done, so don't expect everything to be there which you're used to in Mastodon! We're adding things all the time, but there is a lot left. Help is more than welcome!
We made a huge difference in this area - the migration of TU Berlin showed we cut database operations in half compared to the latest ownCloud at the time. And Nextcloud 13 decreased database operations for LDAP by 80% - another very noticeable difference, for sure.
(link: https://nextcloud.com/blog/tu-berlin-halves-database-load-by-migrating-22k-users-to-nextcloud/ )
WRT WebODF, its parent company died in early 2015, well before Nextcloud started. ownCloud had sunk 100K in it and it would have needed several times that money just to finish a document editor - not talking yet about spreadsheet or everything else. And I should mention: not a single customer has ever been willing to pay for it, not a cent.
Luckily, others have build such technology - Collabora Online (which alone is the size of Nextcloud) and Only Office. I'd consider it a rather big distraction to built an entire online office solution for us, given there are several that are well integrated.
We try to focus in the areas where we can make the biggest difference with our resources - and that all comes to communication and collaboration, which is why we integrate calendar/chat/call technologies, leaving the office tech to others. Of course, help is welcome - if you have a few million lying around I'm sure we could revive WebODF.
EDIT: however, let me add that on a personal note, I also would have loved to continue with WebODF and we discussed with some of its former team members if that'd be possible. But they told me we'd need to hire at least half a dozen people to get it really moving, something which early 2016 just wasn't feasible, esp given that nobody wants to pay for it. I know I can't. Can your company?
Yes, basically. From their FAQ: >We provide not only that but also pro-active support with installation and security issues, we reach out when we do feature planning to ensure your needs are served and we support Nextcloud long after you would otherwise be forced to upgrade for security, performance and stability reasons.ons.
The most notable improvements include:
Several Object Storage fixes
Better IPv6 handling
Allowing a quota of 0, don’t reset quota
Improved browser support
Improve LDAP user cleanup
Style and translation improvements (contrast/readability, adding missing icons)
People looking for an alternative could self host nextcloud with Collabora (basically a web based open office). Have your own free / open source personal Google Drive alternative. Then you have full control over your data.
Use a proper, dedicated app for this -- there are tons of easy-to-manage and free options. I use Nextcloud to share files with friends, clients, etc. and it works great. With their installer, you can get it up and running in 5 minutes.
The founder of ownCloud and many of its core developers left the project and started a fork called Nextcloud. Nextcloud is being more actively developed, so I recommend you to use it instead.
Instead of creating users and sharing credentials with your customers, why don't you just share it with a link.
Nextcloud can create a share link for a specifiek folder, this link can be password protected and can have a expiration.
ADDED: Nextcloud Documentation
If you want to keep using OneDrive, you can encrypt your files with something like 7Zip.
As for alternatives, I personally host my own instance of Nextcloud on a virtual private server. The auto-sync is far superior to OneDrive, in my opinion. It's open source and I own and control my data.
If that is too involved, you can use a Nextcloud provider. I have also heard of Internxt in Spain that seems pretty good.
Not sure why Samba "won't even launch" for you - I've never had issues with it. Also, if your goal is transferring individual files, you might want to look into NitroShare, and if you want a centralized file store, you might want to set up a Nextcloud instance, or just use a prebuilt NAS from WD or Synology or anyone else really.
>As far as I know, there is no way to sync iCloud Drive to Linux
You're right, iCloud is pretty much as closed source as it can be. As far as I know, there are some projects that have tried to reverse engineer the protocol, but they're nothing to write home about.
>is there any cloud alternative (not Google Drive, OneDrive, Mega, or Dropbox) that has a nice experience on Linux
If you have the time and are willing to set it up, there's always NextCloud or you could setup your own NAS.
I personally use NextCloud. It's really quite cool and is very easy to install on any server or something like a DigitalOcean droplet. Funny enough DigitalOcean made a tutorial on setting NextCloud up. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-16-04 NextCloud is really nice and even has 1st party addons for things like U2F and TOTP for added security. It has clients for just about every major platform. https://nextcloud.com/clients/
I host mine on a DigitalOcean droplet, keeping the database file available for offline usage on the Android nextcloud client.
I'm using Nextcloud (a fork of ownCloud with more active development) and it works great. They provide native sync clients for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, etc. There is a built-in app store if you want to expand Nextcloud's functionalities beyond file syncing: https://nextcloud.com/
If I recall all original Owncloud devs left the company due to some shady antifoss pracitices and forked it into https://nextcloud.com which is true to foss values and where all progress is happening.
Es gibt stabile FOSS-Lösungen:
>ich habe manche Kontakte jetzt teilweise vierfach angelegt, aber allen fehlt die Telefonnummer, dafür hab ich einzelne nicht zugeordnete Nummern und manche Kontakte löschen sich regelmäßig selbst.
Klingt nach einem Fall für den Posteo-Support, immerhin bezahlst du ja dafür?!
>wie führe ich die ganzen doppelten Kontakte wieder endgültig zusammen?
- Such' dir eine Synchronisationslösung, die funktioniert
- exportiere alle Kontakte in eine CSV oder so
- trenne dann die Synchronisation
- lösche alle verbliebenen Kontakte (in Telefon / anderen Sync-Clients)
- und synchronisiere dann wieder
- Wenn Kontakte fehlen, hast du sie im Backup.
Ich weiß, ist kompliziert, aber die einzige sinnvolle Methode. Es gab auf XDA mal einen "Contact Sync & Merger" (oder so ähnlich), der das automatisiert hat, den kann ich aber beim besten Willen nicht finden.
Nextcloud is what comes to mind. Apparently client-side encryption is planned for the version 13 (the next major release).
I'm seriously excited to share the news with you all that Nextcloud 11 is released! Some of you have been test driving it already and seen some of the improvements. They are all over, but major areas of improvement include:
- security
- scalability
- full text search
- federation
- better updater
- and much more like:
- kerberos authentication
- UTF16 support on MySQL (emoticons in filenames won't break syncing anymore!)
- Calendar can share public links
- and more!
Watch a video of some of the more 'minor' improvements like scrolling in pdf previews, easily moving files, more complete theming and more here: https://youtu.be/9CGQ3dJkDdI
Let me know what you think!!!
I do not have any plans for making a native Android app myself at the moment, but the server API uses GraphQL which makes it very nice to work with, and I'd encurage the community to make one.
For mobile sync, I'd recommend using an app like Nextcloud or Photosync to automatically sync media to a fileshare and then let Photoview pick them up.
You'd probably have to step through each major release, and that's not necessarily guaranteed to work. Since you've only just installed it, i assume don't already have a heap of data stored, meaning it would be easiest to simply remove the version you've installed and install the latest version (22) (e.g. via https://nextcloud.com/install/#instructions-server).
If you are waiting for the updater, keep in mind: Nextcloud rolls out releases incrementally. By the middle of next week, we will make Nextcloud 16 available to some 10-20% of our user base through the updater, increasing that percentage every few days after that. Don’t want to wait but have the convenience of the updater? Switch to the Beta channel! You can then update to 16 and switch back to stable without issues.
Well actually nextcloud has available the additional collabora suit app which is basically an google docs online equivalent. You have also possibility of group folders which are shared and work just like shared gdrive files/folders.
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Im not aware of any additional function which gdrive provides and nexcloud and its apps cant supplement, but I can be wrong of course...
I use NextCloud for WebDAV, personally have not had any issues connecting from outside of my own network. You just need to forward an port, or to be more secure you could install an OpenVPN server.
It doesn't really circumvent anything. People can take the code, modify it to their liking, and ownCloud doesn't own their contributions. Look at NextCloud for an example of this. NextCloud doesn't own the IP since they broke from ownCloud, so they can't "circumvent" the GPL, and as such they don't have a CLA. As such, NextCloud doesn't follow the open core model, but instead offers paid hosting services.
There are multiple ways to monetize open source code, though most monetized projects use a copyleft license.
Some other models I've seen:
- paid early access to new features
- pay to have your feature requests prioritized
- regular donations to get an ad spot on the project page
No worries, we ran a very good Pilot with 5K users already (see our blog for some more details: https://nextcloud.com/blog/german-federal-administration-relies-on-nextcloud-as-a-secure-file-exchange-solution ) and they're working on rolling this out. MS has lost this one pretty definitely. And while, in a few years, the contract has to be renewed, I doubt they have much chance. The people we work with are very competent so it'll just be a good service for the users, why switch...
Let me just quote this:
"At this point, we decided we should warn the administrators of these instances. Of course, a blog or tweet would not make much difference as some had not upgraded for years. And publicity could encourage people with more nefarious goals to look at these servers and try to break in. The events around a Drupal vulnerability have shown that, within hours of public disclosure, it might already be too late to patch servers." from https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-releases-security-scanner-to-help-protect-private-clouds/
This is a systematic problem of administration of web applications if security updates are not enforced somehow. Wordpress just updates automatically. Owncloud/Nextcloud do not yet do that. Nextcloud has released a better updater to make this simpler, but administrators often are lazy.
I often have to deal with users complaining about spam, that is send through or using insecure web applications. Its just a hassle that needs to be addressed. As there is no imprint on any of the clouds, its rather hard to contact admins directly.
The BSI is the responsible authority to handle those cases and I'm glad we have it!
Isn't this basically the same as Collabora, which markets itself as LibreOffice online?
The docker instructions read very similar to those when hooking it up with Nextcloud.
Nextcloud, hosted: https://nextcloud.com/providers/ (there's some free-tier providers there)
Piwigo is one I see people talk about.
RiseUp for email.
There's also all-in-one solutions for a lot of use cases like Disroot.
Full on privacy doesn't really exist with nowadays tech, and it's much harder to work with and adapt to the existing private solutions compared to more invasive ones.
It's a nice phone btw, but I don't see an official Lineage ROM for it. Also, going with microG instead of google apps installed would be better for privacym unless you want to go full de-google and use fdroid and aurora store, and skip apps using google services (which is plenty of them, much more convenient to use and harder to replace completely).
As for the samsung note app, IDK. But for privacy people go the nextcloud/ owncloud route to replace the functionality of these apps offered by google and others.
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Good luck, tell us how it goes.
Apple used to do this in MacOS through Back to My Mac. It was great. They then shut that down.
One way to do what you want is to setup a Nextcloud server. You could set one up as a virtual machine on your Mac. That could be done all for free, but doing so is not one-click done simple... If you go this route, Nextcloud could be assigned to a folder on your Mac and everything inside that folder would be synced to the server and then available from other Macs and iPhones. r/NextCloud and https://nextcloud.com
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Nextcloud is simply an open source (free!) equivalent to Box, Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, and whatever other cloud based file sharing systems that are out there. I understand that none of these do exactly what you may want, but with Nextcloud you can at least have it serve as many TB's of stuff as you have disk space to serve, as opposed to paying for storage via the commercial products I list above. The drawback is you need to set up and maintaining a server (again, can be a virtual one), which can be fun, but also a headache.
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If it is a VPS, you may encrypt your stuff but if the owner of the hypervisor is really keen on your stuff they can just dump the VM memory and find the key for the encryption.
If your stuff is in an enviroment where there is little trust, you need to encrypt your files on the clinet side.
There is an option on NextCloud for end to end encryption what my fit on your situation: https://nextcloud.com/endtoend/[https://nextcloud.com/endtoend/]
I have tested and now a run a pretty solid system to host
- my contacts
- agenda
- cloud files on Nextcloud with the possibility to share files and folders with people, and even give them write access if i want
- edit : forgot about the great Peer2Peer conference call app which comes with Nextcloud that is really very powerful (and very light on the server, you could really have 15 people video chatting on RaspberryPi
It actually is BETTER than when i used to use Google for that because as it all sync with webDav standards i can sync between my phone (android), my cloud server (nextcloud) and my PC (linux). The events i add on my phone are synced to the agenda on linux. This was not the case with Google.
It's really simple to setup and with only one cloud app and a few android apps i ditch Google for 4 uses:
For this i use DAVdroid to sync Contacts and Agenda with my cloud server powered by Nextcloud. My files on my computer are synced also. Among my files i have a bunch of markdown files that is use as notes, thanks to this i also ditched Google Keep and other Google Drive documents.
- Proxmox for the OS.
- Plex for media streaming to other devices
- NextCloud for storing and accessing files remotely
NextCloud and Plex could be setup as either containers or VMs in Proxmox. Personally I run them as containers because it's less resource intensive. And, becuse you only have 8GB of RAM I think that'd be your best bet.
the 300K users at the federal government is far from our largest deployment - we have customers 2 orders of magnitude larger. 10's of millions of users on a Nextcloud instance is not just a theoretical possibility. The architecture behind it is explained here: https://nextcloud.com/globalscale
People NEED to understand that there is NO SAFE cloud solution unless you host it yourself.
Self-hosted cloud solutions are easy to setup and manage and most single/dual drive solutions are ready-to-go out of the box.
It's sheer laziness and consumer cognitive dissonance that lead most to continue to rely on heavily compromised US-based cloud solutions.
Consider:
https://nextcloud.com/box/ (US, Open Source)
https://www.wdc.com/products/personal-cloud-storage/my-cloud-mirror-gen2.html (Uses Western Digital cloud to access home data, may be able to use OpenDNS)
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS218j (Chinese based, can use their DNS servers to access your home unit, may be able to use OpenDNS)
Yes, Nextcloud let's you run a private server for your cloud.
As I said, there are also providers that host Nextcloud. And a new feature of Nextcloud is client side encryption.
Let me warn you though: You will not have the same experience as with google.
Then you can rent one. Scaleway has IPv4+v6 VPS for 3 EUR and you get 50GB, with another 50GB being 1 eur.
That's monthly.
Also if you don't trust the VPS provider, you can use E2E encryption in the upcoming release.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introducing-native-integrated-end-to-end-encryption/
Why do all people keep talking about privacy and security? The problem is muuuch bigger. Nobody care about users. I had even a post about this. People want to create new VERY SMTH (replace SMTH with MODERN, SECURE, SHINY) TECHNOLOGY. But almost nobody care about comfort of use in the opensource world (I am talking about individuals or non-profit orgs).
Let's take for example puri.sm. They don't care about comfort of use, they don't want to make a Linux-phone that would be more usable than Android. They want to create a privacy-aware smartphone. What does it mean for you? You will have kill-switches but you still won't be able to synchronize your data.
P.S. You will be able to synchronize...using Nextcloud! Not very secure, ah?
I'd recommend NextCloud for personal cloud storage service. I have used it a lot myself and am pleased with it. It also has calendar, contacts, & many more. Check it out here: https://nextcloud.com/
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If you install some software like Next Cloud and set up a DDNS for your computer, may be you can access your data on your home/own computer from other computers / devices.
I recently setup Nextloud 12 inside a FreeBSD jail. My Nextcloud instance is externally accessible, and yet if someone were to get inside my Jail, I could rest easy knowing they still didn’t have access to the rest of my host server. I chronicled the setup process including jail setup using iocage, https with Lets Encrypt, and full setup of the web stack.
for steaming it will depend on a couple of things #1 what media you have and if the client can direct play and not transcode it. If your client needs to transcode it then you will need CPU Power. Memory 4GB is enough. If all your media is in a format where your clients can play directly then CPU Power isnt a issue. I have plex and have RP3 and everything is direct play while family use my plex server outside my house, so i tell plex to optimize files for them so it will direct play on there systems. The less transcoding the better. Next i would recommend virtual machines, have one for plex and another for your downloads, have your downloads vm with your vpn connection running. VMWare ESXi is free, and if you want to upgrade your hardware it easier to move vms around. Dont recommend you use external drives, the bottleneck will be the speed of USB. Recommend you keep Google Photos, main reason for this is cause unless you can make sure that all your data is backed up on multiple drives and also one of those backups are outside you house then can you be ok losing those photos. I pay 3NZD a month of 100GB of space. Create a family account, add it onto both your and wife device and backup images onto google photos. There is https://nextcloud.com/ which could do want you want but once again, i would recommend 3 lots of backups and offsite backups.
iCloud, unless you also hate Apple.
Office 365, unless you also hate Microsoft.
A self-hosted solution like, say, Nextcloud Collabora, or some FOSS groupware software, unless you also hate paying for hosting and maintaining a server.
https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/
You could selfhost a nextcloud instance or find some hosting which will work for you.
A bonus is, that you also get a deggogled drive too...
Give this a read before you use nextclouds encryption:
Nextcloids server side encryption does not protect against someone who has access to your server (ie a cloud host).
Also worth reading:
>...and, what new does it bring to the table?
My question exactly, all of 4privacy's features seem to mirror Nextcloud, which is free on a self-hosted server, already open source, and multi platform, not to mention already has 5 years of use (10 if you include it's source ownCloud)
Spoken as a consumer, maybe there's a difference in the corporate world I'm not seeing.
Unfortunatley, I can't help you with your specific situation. But I do remember one blog post from Nextcloud about a similar setup:
https://nextcloud.com/blog/the-nextcloud-hub-ubuntu-appliance-now-available-for-raspberry-pi-4-and-more/
I know this solution is not using RaspberryOS, but maybe it can give you some kind of orientation.
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(There will be people more knowledgable than me in the comments soon, so be patient. My guess is that there is some easy docker image that does exactly what you want.)
Just a week or two ago Tim Berners-Lee suggested that Nextcloud - now that it is fully compatible with Solid - may be the means by which Solid achieves much broader implementation. I can't find the reference today, but I think you'll find that approaching Solid via Nextcloud will answer a lot more of your questions. Good luck.
I use Nextcloud.
Nextcloud is a self hosted dropbox style thing. They have mobile apps for both Android and IOS and they're quite good.
Nextcloud backs up all my photos to my home network.
Nextcloud will automatically upload all your photos. It's great.
I have a folder setup in nextcloud that is my photos library in Plex. Any photos I put in this folder will show up instantly in my photo library.
You can have your main photos folder shared to plex no problem, but I didn't really want that. Let's say I took a photo at last weekend's gothic furry orgy; I certainly wouldn't want this photo automatically syncing up to Grandma's photos in plex right? I mean, maybe she'd enjoy it but that's something that should be discussed ahead of time.
Instead, as I mentioned, I have a folder i can drop selected photos in to and have them pop up on Grandma's TV.
> The High Performance Back-end for Files in Nextcloud is an optional, binary component developed in Rust. It is capable of maintaining a direct connection with desktop and web clients, providing file change and notification updates to the clients. This negates the need for regular polling the server, reducing the 30 second polling period to 5 minutes and thus providing a 90% reduction in client-server connections for change notifications and associated server load. The direct connection provides instant notifications of file changes as well as events like an incoming call, comment on a file, mention in a chat message and more. The performance improvements in database use, file handling and app specific work combined with the high performance back-end are expected to result in an up to 10x increase in capacity of large Nextcloud servers.
The link that OP probably wanted was: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-faster-than-ever-introducing-files-high-performance-back-end/
If you're technical, you can host a Nextcloud on a cheap server and it'd replace both contacts and calendar (through CardDAV and CalDAV) as well as act as a Drive / Dropbox replacement. If you're not technical, it's cheaper and more efficient to see if you can get an account on a hosted instance from a provider.
On the phone side of things, I use DAVx5 to connect to my Nextcloud server
EDIT: worth saying that this is my solution on my de-googled phone!
I don't have much experience with this outside of Nextcloud and SharePoint, but here's a link to the Nextcloud site that mentions their OnlyOffice capability: https://nextcloud.com/onlyoffice/
If the Nextcloud/OnlyOffice capability works well, that is a 100% self-hosted, zero-cost option for you. I use Nextcloud for a Google Drive-like cloud file server and Google Photos-like cloud photo respository, and it works very well for me. It seems to scale decently well but you will need to consider the hardware you run it on, especially if you plan to have dozens of concurrent users. A fast CPU and lots of RAM are critical for this, and if you plan to run it on an old laptop with 4GB of RAM it's not going to work very well. Neither would SharePoint, in that case.
As for SharePoint my only experience is as a user so I can't offer anymore information on that, sorry.
Nextcloud, lots of providers out there since you don't want to self host.
If you click "Change Providers" on that page, you'll see a bigger list of them, as well as the apps that each provider gives you.
Tab.digital and Webo.hosting provide Collabora which is essentially like google docs, so that might be the best choice.
They were in the process of implementing a Virtual Drive feature for the desktop client which would basically be this, but development on it seems to have stalled.
But apparently according to the last post in this issue, using the Owncloud desktop client with a Nextcloud server allows you to have a virtual file system. I haven't tried it myself but that's pretty intriguing.
FTP has nothing to do with PHP or Webpages. You would just be able to download or upload files to it with an FTP client. I don't know if there are clients like you need on iOS.
What you actually want is something different. You need a local cloud storage which is accessible in your browser. I recommend Nextcloud. You can store your files and access them in a browser or with the official Nextcloud app. It's completely free and open source. https://nextcloud.com/install/#
You need the server-version. There is a installation script on this page which does everything for you. You just have to install a webserver and php before using it. You can just google something like "linux install php apache" and you'll find a lot of tutorials for this. You just need to know which linux distribution you are using. Normally it's just copy pasting a few commands.
Install nextcloud and then look at the Gallery app?
e.g. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/15/user_manual/files/gallery_app.html
Nextcloud has external storage app which would allow you to access your Google Drive from within Nextcloud — no need to move the data. You can use that to assess how Nextcloud works out for you.
Nextcloud might be what you're after. Can be as simple as installing a snap/docker/dedicated image (NextcloudPi for instance) or as complex as setting up all the dependencies yourself. If you want to go the Pi route I recommend a Pi 4; older Pis don't make for a smooth experience.
This sounds like a task for tools such as NextCloud, Syncthing or any of these awesome selfhosted tools, not Jellyfin.
I am unsure where you are looking, but NC is currently on v19 (blog post). They just released it earlier in the week, so v18.x is the place to be right now until they release the first round of bugfixes to the major release
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Se vuoi fare un ulteriore passo potresti provare Nextcloud, che ti permetterebbe di fare un vero e proprio cloud: per intenderci, la stessa cosa di Dropbox, ma il server è sul tuo PC. È un po' più complessa come cosa, ma trovi molte guide in giro.
Per i backup ti consiglio questa interessante discussione.
Infine, prendi anche in considerazione di buttarci sopra, assieme al resto, anche PiHole!
I am also curious, there was a just a Window release tech preview, but haven't seen anything recent after that:
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-virtual-drive-in-desktop-client-to-simplify-desktop-integration/
There a couple options you could go with, depending on your technical literacy.
NextCloud is a self hosted solution. The benefit there is that you host all the data yourself, so you know where it is, who has access, etc. A potential drawback to this is that you are responsible for taking care of the data yourself. The setup and maintenance isn't too hard, and there is a lot of support documents and tutorials on how to set it up.
SpiderOak is a closed source cloud storage option that keeps all of the data on their cloud, but they hold what they call a Zero Knowledge policy, where no one but you and those you allow can see your files.
Code42 is not so much a cloud storage solution, but I want to include it for the security aspect of it. It's backs up files in case they need to be recovered, not so much accessed from multiple devices. You can set a custom encryption password, so that no one can see what's being stored.
> I just remembered that an old desktop I have has 2x 3TB drives ...
Perfect start.
> Besides an enclosure are there any smaller cases you'd recommend for a server?
Actually, just about anything will do. I ran a production fileserver for several hundred people using a Dell GX-260, Linux, and Samba. I installed the OS, then my hardware buddy ripped out the CD/DVD player giving us room for three drives. The important thing was the environment -- we had a locked room with Liebert A/C and good UPS equipment, so our temperature and power were stable. This setup (plus an identical box as a backup) ran without issue round the clock for about 5 years until we replaced it with something bigger.
I totally get wanting to keep the laptop if you travel. If you have time, would you consider running something like Owncloud or Nextcloud? You could use your desktop box as a server and connect via SSH or web from your laptop -- keep only the files you know you need on your laptop, the rest stays on your server.
https://nextcloud.com/federation/ < their blurb page about it, contains links to both the user and administrative manuals
Nextcloud federation will let you create remote access links to files and dirs in your nextcloud instance, and let the remote user have them available in their nextcloud shares view until you revoke access (I believe there's revoke timers available as well)
I am not 100% sure on this, but my understanding is that having memcache configured will cache those objects that are frequently accessed, and sync them in the background.
Nextcloud does staged rollouts so it's entirely possible/likely that you're just not in the current wave. As others have said, you can manually upgrade if you want it sooner.
They have provider list on their website: https://nextcloud.com/signup/
The requirements seem to be pretty normal, there's nothing "modern" that is not available at hosts.
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/16/admin_manual/installation/system_requirements.html
Davon gab es mal zwei Varianten. Vor der einen hat /u/nyomanb schon gewarnt: > „WD My Cloud Sicherheitslücke“
Außerdem hatte WD mal die Nextcloud Box im Programm, welche nun scheinbar nicht mehr verkauft wird. Mir ist nicht bekannt, was dagegen gesprochen hätte. Alternativen dazu nennt https://nextcloud.com/devices/.
It's elfeed, a RSS/Atom feed reader which runs in Emacs. I use elfeed-protocol to sync feeds and read/unread state to a Nextcloud machine I self-host.
Nextcloud, you don't have to self-host it you can buy it from a host. You can either find one yourself (just search for nextcloud hosting) or see a short list from the nextcloud website.