Oracle recently changed their free VPS allowances, taking down my Nextcloud instance. I’m moving my file sync to a local machine but was wondering if anyone had any experience with alternatives, as Nextcloud AIO was a major pain in the ass to set up last time.
I used it for sharing WIP music projects so having a web interface where I can listen to audio files from a browser was really convenient. It seems however, that all apps offering this feature are just as heavy as NC.
I tried installing cloudreve, but the web media player seems borked on firefox.
Does anyone know any good alternatives, preferably ones which can run off a single docker compose file?
OpenCloud is a simpler and lighter version of OwnCloud written mostly in Go. There is a docker compose version of it. Also there is a mobile application for it, as well, if wanted.
OxiCloud is a newer project written in Rust. It’s functional but it is still in development. Deployment is pretty simple and mostly docker. No clients yet outside of the web interface.
I tried all of them over a few months and ended up with Immich + Syncthing.
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Strong recommend for Seafile. It’s way faster than nextcloud, it has a good web ui, and nice clients on all platforms.
I can not express how much faster than nextcloud it is.
Obviously open source too.
Proxmox has a backup server if that’s what you looking for.
Copyparty. It’s not pretty but it’s lightweight and does a lot. Including the “single docker compose” setup you’re after.
Instead of installing a massive all in one solution, why not install individual services specifically to cover your requirements? Navidrome for music consumption, synching to actually sync files, WebDAV and OnlyOffice for office docs, VLC, Kodi or jellyfin for video consumption, immich for photos, etc.
It will end up being much lighter and more specialised
Do you use plain webdav for all your files? Mounted on your computer or via libreoffice somehow?
Once I got comfortable with immich, I realized photos was my main use of nextcloud and immich was so much better. I replaced the rest of nextcloud’s functionality with syncthing+filebrowser quantum. Haven’t looked back since. Now I don’t have to worry about a nextcloud update randomly causing havoc (user error likely).
In my case it was Syncthing and Radicale that replaced basically all my Nextcloud use.
Nextcloud isn’t bad actually but you really need to use a lot of the million optional features to justify that behemoth.
This is the way. You also end up with easier debugging due to it being more constrained to specialized services.
I use OwnCloud, which was forked into NextCloud ages ago. I originally intended it as a temporary measure, but it has turned out to be a very reliable, no-frills but adequately featured fileserver. For example, it has file versioning, and companion apps on major OSs that help with managing local and cloud stored files.
If you want a dead simple option, CopyParty is amazing. It’s a 1MB Python file that is basically a Swiss Army knife of file hosting. FTP, web interface, WebDAV, SMB, etc., etc. It wont have system integrations or file versioning, but it’s impressive what it can do.
Edit: worth mentioning CopyParty has an in-browser media player, which is perfectly adequate for previews.
For example, it has file versioning, and companion apps on major OSs that help with managing local and cloud stored files.
Nextcloud also got both.
Yes? OP is specifically looking for something other than NextCloud. OwnCloud has basically zero bloat and in my experience is easier to set up than NextCloud.
And the previous commenter mentioned ownCloud, I just wanted to point out that feature isn’t unique to that. I wasn’t talking to OP.
ultra minimal but might do everything you need
copyparty + syncthing
Their requirements line up so well with what copyparty can do
Migrated from NC to FileBrowser Quantum and its super light weight. https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser
File Browser Quantum is AWESOME, I’m shocked I don’t hear about it more often.
Opencloud is pretty decent no extras just file sync with a web UI and android app.
Owncloud, Opencloud, Sync-in, and Seafile are some lighter-weight options I know of with docker builds.
Not web based but you could always use Samba
Been using Seafile for years, it’s fantastic.
As always, I want to note that seafile is not compatible with existing files, you can’t just point it at a directory, you have to upload them to seafile, and then you can only access them via seafile (at least that’s how I understand it, correct me if I’m way off base).
Completely correct.
