Zen May 28, 2023

Feeling overwhelmed. Does anyone know How I should host Nextcloud?

I want it for myself and a few friends to use. I'd like to host it locally on my network using my old PC with a few HDDs for redundancy/large storage.

TrueNas Scale and OpenMediaVault look cool. but looking at TrueNas makes my brain melt atm. Should I just install it with Debian and use a docker image? Currently I have it running on an old Dell Optiplex using the Snap version on Ubuntu. I'd rather not host it on a VPS due to price and I like the idea of having my data locally.

Idk. Just feeling overwhelmed and confused with what to do. #SelfHostingAdvice #selfhosting #nextcloud

Show threadWander ΘΔ May 28, 2023

@ThatGeekZen have you considered installing proxmox on the server/pc at your home and use that to create, manage, snapshot, etc... a vm on which to run nextcloud?

Snapshots, backups and disposable vms are a godsend when it comes to experimenting with self-hosted software.

Show threadZen May 28, 2023
@Wander I've heard of Proxmox but I've steered clear of it. Since I assumed VMs would be pretty heavy and tax the i7 4gen and 16gb of ram. But perhaps that's a bad assumption and I should try it?
Show threadWander ΘΔ 

@ThatGeekZen
It's basically a Debian distro that works as the hypervisor. Vms are as lightweight or as heavy as you make them, but you can even use lxc containers which are even more lightweight. The only drawback is that you can't use dropbox inside an lxc container.

But essentially you can easily create a 2GB Ram vm or container that will happily run your nextcloud and then have leftover Ram for other projects

May 29, 2023 at 1:42amWeb
Show threadZen May 29, 2023
@Wander Sounds awesome! I'll play with it sometime. Thank you!