Nextcloud at home 🏠 - Anyone have experience setting up your own cloud server?
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If so, how was the overall experience? Looks like a much better alternative than completely relying on Google Drive and you can't beat the price (free!)
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I'm using the managed solution from Hetzner (they name it "Storage Share" but it is just the same Nextcloud). Here you have the admin rights in your own instance, including setup keys, cryptography, access, etc. I'm paying 4.29 eur/month for 1Tb of storage (including all the services of Nextcloud, like tasks, contacts, etc.).
I think that maintaining the own Nextcloud on the EC2-like instances will be even more expensive and also requires a lot of time. So, for me managed solution with control over keys is a good balance of privacy and control over data versus number of efforts and technical complexity.
Yeah I tried to run my own a few times in a few different ways. It was easy to set up and great when it worked but I kept fucking things up every few months and spending a long time fixing it each time. Eventually I just moved to a hosted provider and not only is life so much easier, it's also much cheaper cause I'm not running my own RDS or Managed Postgres instance for the database like I was in AWS and DO.
If they offered a way to export/import the DB and user files as is, it would be great. But you are kind of stuck with Hetzner if you go there, transferring elsewhere will be a pain. Probably need to use the desktop client to download everything and then again upload to the new place.