Jürgen HubertMy #NextCloud provider (kai.nl.tab.digital) has been down since at least Friday.
I have to admit, this is giving me second thoughts about migrating away from #GoogleDrive .
Leona@juergen_hubert oooh. I've been tinkering with using NextCloud myself. Haven't needed to do anything with it lately because I'm not traveling the way I used to. This is worrying. Keep me updated?
/dev/urandom@juergen_hubert if you're just using it to synchronize specific files/folders across some of your devices, i would like to suggest #syncthing -- which does the same thing, but without relying on a server -- instead, the devices find each other on the LAN (or even the internet, if you use global discovery) and transfer data between each other directly
I travel a lot, and need some kind of cloud service.
Besides, I want geo-redundancy for my files for safety reasons.
@juergen_hubert understandable, your needs are different from mine, and yeah, in that case using a separate cloud storage service makes sense
Torx@juergen_hubert This is provider specific. I have no such issues with @hetzner It is not an issue of Nextcloud
@juergen_hubert @hetzner Well, just my point of view, but anecdotic evidence is not a statistic. I did not notice downtime with them.
Another take, just in case you stick to Google: Using #rclone with crypted backend can be used to provide local mount where files are stored encrypted in such privacy-invading/ignoring-clouds. RClone runs on Windows, Linux, Android, BSD, ... That way Google at least does not get the file contents
Miron 🇪🇺@juergen_hubert @Torx @hetzner I have an instance here and they seem professional
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edhaswellI used to run nextcloud on a shared host. It worked, but was suboptimal because I didn't control the whole stack. A few months ago I moved it to a vps I use to host a webapp that I judged had enough capacity. Working perfectly. My vps host is IONOS. If you're comfortable self-hosting might not cost any more than your current host.
It's a small instance, just me and my wife. Not very resource intensive. Wasn't hard to set up.
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How about selfhosting?
How about selfhosting?
I do not consider a constantly-running server in my own apartment to be "secure backup".
casraf 🇮🇱@juergen_hubert this is a host related problem, nothing to do with Nextcloud itself
I wouldn't let it deter me from usjng NC, but maybe consider a more reliable host, or self hosting on local machine or VPS
I wouldn't let it deter me from usjng NC, but maybe consider a more reliable host, or self hosting on local machine or VPS
So how _do_ I identify "a more reliable host"?
This one was recommended as "reliable" to me as well.
@juergen_hubert Hetzner has a good reputation and I've seen many people mention using it and being satisfied over the years. But otherwise I guess do some research into what people online use and what they recommend on Reddit/forums etc
I myself self host on a Linode instance and I haven't had downtime problems, though it does require technical knowledge and the thirst to tinker once in a while, so it's a different lane than having a hosting service manage it for you.
@juergen_hubert btw no shade at your host, it could be a once-in-5-years problem that really screwed them and their customers, and it could be possible that 99.99% of the time they are amazing. Maybe try to contact them to ask what's up before investing time to move off
martin@juergen_hubert I second using #Hetzner storage share. I use it for several years now and never had any issues.