What types of services are you not willing to self-host?
What types of services are you not willing to self-host?
For example, something that is too complex for your comfort level, a security concern, or maybe your hardware can’t keep up with the service’s needs?
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I feel like I'm having a change of heart on NextCloud... Every time some little thing breaks I have to figure out how to fix it
Really? Nextcloud has been pretty set-and-forget for me.
It largely is, but yesterday the Recognize app broke and I have no idea how to fix it. I think the environment got messed up from an apt-get upgrade? Its little things like that I have to figure out how to fix
Nextcloud AIO has officially hit the 1 year mark for me without any issues. The truck has been to use it as a real Dropbox replacement not a Google Drive with word and all these other integrations. I had it break 3 times due to weird updates because of that the prior year. Using it to mirror/backup files is pretty nice.
Okay, but do you run it in containers or on bare metal?
Bare metal (using the NixOS module, so the manual stuff like database upgrades after an update and such is automated). Only containers that go on my servers are Pterodactyl because it requires it ;)
Nextclouds shitly encryption implementation burned decades of my data.
Ouch, that's awful. Yeah tbh I wouldn't quite trust it to do encryption well. I haven't had any actual problems with Nextcloud but it does feel like it's held together by duck tape.
It's my own fault for not having better backups, but i kept all of the decryption keys and everything, so i was really shocked and upset that it wasn't actually possible to decrypt the data.
Someone in the community had created a third party script that could technically do the decryption, but iirc you could only do one file at a time and then you had to manually remove the first 32 bytes of the file or something and the file usually ended up corrupted anyway.
I kept the files to remind me to not toy with encryption, but also to remind me to never install *cloud again.