Since 2010, I guess, I run Owncloud and later Nextcloud on different small “servers” in my home network. Recently, I had the impression that my instance, which I updated/upgraded many times, got a bit bloated and some things simply did not work correctly anymore. The other day I decided that it is time to setup up a new instance from scratch. However, this time I did not want to have a complicated native installation running on nginx, php-fpm, mySQL, Redis and whatever dependency my old Nextcloud instance had. Read more

A good while ago I ditched my so-far preferred file-synchronization solution Syncthing for Nextcloud. The reason for this step was that Syncthing behaved in odd ways quite often: sometimes it didn’t find content that should be synced, at other days the sync process got stuck and wouldn’t complete. I really got annoyed fixing my Syncthing cluster manually almost weekly and started to play with Nextcloud. I decided not to have just one Nextcloud instance, but two: one instance on a public vServer (Debian Jessie; mostly to sync calendars and contacts between Mac OS and iOS devices, and sharing files with others), the other instance (Ubuntu 16. Read more