Setting up your own cloud

Hi Lains, I'm looking at setting up my own cloud service, syncing my work between computers, potentially having something similar to Google Docs (the real doozy!) and generally trying to ensure that I am able to have backups of all of my files with as little effort as possible. I have a spare Dell Optiplex 760 to use as a server. Anyone have any advice or recommended software I can use?

Nextcloud.com

>>16735 I've never looked into it myself, but from what I understand there's some kind of plugin for Nextcloud that lets you integrate with Collabora, which supposedly would give a Google Docs -like platform. YMMV.

>>16735 > Potentially having something similar to Google Docs Check out sandstorm (sandstorm.io), and the Ether* suite https://ethercalc.net/ https://etherpad.org/ https://github.com/johnmclear/draw I've also used https://opennebula.org/ with some success stringing old laptops together. It's all a bit bloated for my taste, but it's here and ready-to-use if you want to get started right away.

I currently use this : https://yunohost.org/ If you use the community repository you have access to plenty of application. For syncing Nextcloud is supported out of the box and should fill your needs, as well as Etherpad I tried this after fuarrrking around with docker containers, and if you don't feel like playing the sysadmin it's a breeze to set up

>>16735 I use Nextcloud mostly for file storage, calendaring, contacts, and synchronization. I've never dived into the collaborative editing, so I'm not sure how it would work on that front. I've been pretty satisfied with it as a replacement for proprietary cloud storage/sync.

>>16742 My main goal is to keep all of my work files synchronised across computers. I'll definitely check out Nextcloud

My go-to for collaborative editing these days is Cryptpad. (https://cryptpad.fr/) It's under the Affero GPL and is pretty simple to self-host without dealing with Docker BS. That said, it's not really designed as a full-featured file storage solution. Cryptpad can do file storage with nested directories, but due to the zero-knowledge crypto layer, the only way to upload and download is through the web interface. There's no FTP/SFTP/DAV/rsync/etc sort of access that would make it amenable for automatic backups. Nextcloud is better in that respect. But of course Nextcloud isn't nearly as secure. It's a tradeoff.

I've used owncloud, nextcloud and syncthing. >Owncloud Pretty much identical to nextcloud. >nextcloud Works great, the web UI is excellent. Your webserver user (apache or whatever) will need to own all your files. No, not chmod, chown. Php-fpm is a bitch to set up. Also it creates and maintains a database of your files which easily gets desynchronized (imagine rm'ing a file, the db says it's still there, oops). Also if you have something fancy like rtorrent downloading files to your data folder, they won't show up because they're not on the db. I found it very intrusive and thus moved on to syncthing. >syncthing No web UI. Setup is a bit harder, but it doesn't rely on as many external stuff. The client takes forever to connect, and I personally cannot get it to connect without a relay despite having a server with ports forwarded on my router. Transfer speeds are ungodly slow. Use nextcloud if you just want something that works. I prefer syncthing, but it's hard to recommend.

>>17146 syncthing does have a web ui.