I am hosting more than 10 services currently but only Nextcloud sends me errors periodically and only Nextcloud is super extremely painfully slow. I quit this sh*t. No more troubleshooting and optimization.
There are mainly 4 services in Nextcloud I’m using:
Files: as simple server for upload and download binariesCalendar(with DAVx5): as sync server without web UINotes: simple note-takingNetwork folder: mounted on Linux dolphin
Could you recommend me the alternatives for these? All services are supposed to be exposed by HTTPS, so authentication like login is needed. And I’ve tried note-taking apps like Joplin or trillium but couldn’t like it.
Thanks in advance.
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If you’re having issues with NextCloud being slow and having errors, it’s probably because the machine you are running it on is low on RAM and/or CPU.
I bring this up because what ever replacements you try would likely have the same issues.
My NextCloud instance was nearly unusable when I had it on a Raspberry PI 3, but when I moved it to a container on my faster machine (AMD Ryzen 7 4800U with 16GB of ram) it now works flawlessly.
The backing database type and the storage it runs on are just as important too.
I agree with this. It needs a good amount of CPU cycle and RAM. Raspi struggled for me too.
My NC instance runs on a 24GB RAM, 4 CPU Ampere A1 host(Oracle), and still struggles. YMMV.
And it struggles as a photo backup host an i5-7xxx and 16GB RAM at home.
It’s not absurdly slow, it’s just…irritating sometimes.
Whta db are you using
Postgres.
Also using redis, did all the typical perf checks listed on NC site etc.
What exactly have you tried to do to address your nextCloud problems?
Sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience. I’ve been running the lsio Nextcloud docker container for 4 years without any issues at all.
- Syncthing for files.
- Proton calendar (so not self hosted)
- Joplin, using file based sync with aforementioned syncthing. I saw you didn’t like it though.
- I occasionally use scp
For calendaring, I also went with the option of syncthing via DecSync. I can get my contacts and calendar on Android and Thunderbird, so I can avoid yet another unnecessary webapp.
This does look cool! But I notice that there’s really only one contributor (technically two, but the second only did one tiny commit) and they haven’t contributed any code in over a year. I don’t want to invest too much time migrating to a stale if not dead project.
Honestly, I think that the lack of commits is more due to the application being feature complete than “dead”. I’ve been using it for at least 3 years now and it works quite well.
That’s a fine point! You talked me in to checking it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
I have my issues with Nextcloud, but it’s still, by far, the best solution I’ve come across.
I was on the same boat when I was running NC on a container. I switched to VM, and most of my issues have been resolved, but collabora. I am currently using the built-in collabora server, which is slow.
i dont understand how some people have lots of issue with NC and some people say its all good
i have tried many times to switch to NC, It always slow (given that it running locally next to me, i expect it to be snappy) and throws me some error after somedays. I really wanted to use NC, so many things in one package
I used Nextcloud + Samba by the side for awhile, these days I use Samba exclusively, mounting takes basically no time whatsoever and syncthing for synchronization stuff
I love idea of Nextcloud, but its overall concept of doing everything, but nothing well enough was one of the reasons I’ve decided to build S3Drive. We squeeze most of the “file-management” experience out of the protocol itself. That means that all you need to self-host is the S3 storage server (e.g. MinIO)… but if you don’t feel like it just yet you can buy S3 from anyone else (e.g. Backblaze / Wasabi / Synology / Cloudflare etc.) and enable 100% Rclone compatible E2E encryption to protect your privacy.
Me as well I don’t like nextcloud at all
Need something like synology drive but open source
I would say Seafile, and especially their webserver “seahub”, which is written in Python and Django, is just pure garbage. I’m using Seafile since 2012, and I’m honestly so sick of its problems. It just crashes for no good reason, and the encryption is extremely mediocre (there’s been issues about it). I have it behind my VPN so security isn’t a big deal.
Because it’s written with the garbage Python + Django, just try moving your installation to a new version… and you’ll be stuck with a very specific version of a bunch of libraries or otherwise seahub won’t even launch… and to make it even better, you don’t get anything on stdout/stderr to tell you what’s wrong, unless you launch Seahub in a specific configuration mode (WSAPI or something?).
Seafile has become so bad that I stopped caring about tracking its issues. I set my docker container to just restart on health checks’ failure, and forgot about it. My status tracker shows that it’s shutdown, and eventually it’ll restart. “Hey look, Seafile is down.” And I respond “That’s OK, dear, just give it another 15 minutes and it’ll restart”. This is my status on Seafile.
I think Seahub needs a complete revamp.
Those guys coded Seafile like a decade ago and they don’t care about fixing it anymore. Github is cluttered with issues.
Disable logging.
I use pydio cells for file sharing.
I love the idea of nextcloud but it really seems pretty hostile towards hosters I would suggest looking at something like Cryptpad which is at least an upgrade to your personal security.
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