Running opencloud - great nextcloud replacement - Byte Pursuits
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I’ve been running owncloud, then nextcloud for years. While it worked I was never very happy with it. Performance was always lackluster even for 1-2 users, features added are seemingly superfluous and was never something I wanted or cared about (groupware, AI assistant, talk features – don’t use, need or care). All I want is ... Read more

Hey friends. I finally fired nextcloud - and so should you.

edit: wow. reddit banned me for posting a link to my (completely unmonitezed, unproductized) blog in multiple r/selfhosted threads. I bet it’s related to this lemmy link

  • LemmyPlay@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Thanks for putting this together. I have been dragging my feet on self-hosting NextCloud, and now it looks like that procrastination may just work out in my favor.

    One question, can I just run this on localhost and access through my local network instead of using a reverse proxy? If so, how? That’s all I need, I don’t use a reverse proxy now and would be fine just using a self-hosted VPN to access it when away from my private network. The docs make it seem like there is pretty stringent requirements on having to use a reverse proxy and certs, etc which was the same ‘issue’ I had with NextCloud. I guess I’m the minority here, but curious if anyone can help answer.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      You can absolutely use it without a reverse proxy. A proxy is just another fancy HTTP client that contacts the server on the original client’s behalf and forwards the response back to it, usually wrapped in HTTPS. A man in the middle that you trust.

      All you have to do is expose the desired port(s) to all addresses:

      # ...
  - ports:
    - 8080:8080

      …and obviously to set the URL environment variables to localhost or whatever address the server uses.

  • illusionist@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    8 months ago

    You use a mesh vpn with a reverse proxy? How does that work?

    I run opencloud containers straight on my NAS server running ubuntu LTS, I then expose container ports on tailscale only, and then I route it via nginx proxy manager through my public VPS via tailscale.

    I’m not sure. Is it public facing or not? What’s the mesh vpn for?

    and so should you.

    Why should I? I couldn’t read it in the post. I use nextcloud because its easy and it has caldav which I use nextcloud 50% for. The other 50 percent is thinking I have a cloud if I someday need one.