I currently have the following services which I’d like to migrate elsewhere:
OneDrive
Google Drive
Google Photos (some photos doubled in OneDrive, too, but I will just delete those)
Bitwarden (potenitally)
Google Calendar (but may use the calendar at Mailbox.org)

I keep searching for solutions and I keep coming back to Nextcloud. On the one hand, it seems like it’s too big and too complex (even Nextcloud’s website defaults to business version and talks about collaboration), but on the other hand it seems modular and has all I need (Files + Virtual Files, Photos / Memories, Calendar and more).

I may one day want to self-host at home, but this is not the day yet, especially with the ridiculous storage prices. I think I’d rather go the cloud route first, but would like to have an option of switching to another provider or taking everything home.

I understand that with a VPS that’s a no-brainer because it’s essentially a rented virtualized server. But what about the Storage Share? What is easy to take out and what is difficult to take out? I guess files and photos would be as easy as downloading them to my machine (for example via SFTP, rsync, etc. – I’m on Linux). What about Calendar, if I used that? CalDAV, I guess, and sync to another calendar?

On one hand, using the VPS is a good learning experience, but also more prone to errors on my part. But I am not limited to only Nextcloud, I can spin up other services (for example Immich or even Vaultwarden), especially if I use Docker containers. But VPS will be more expensive, especially if I keep adding services.

Managed Nextcloud is easy to set up and there’s virtually no maintenance apart from installing some apps and managing my data. But I am limited to only what Hetzner offers and it may be troublesome to move away.

What am I missing?

  • Mad_Punda@feddit.orgEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    My experience: I started hosting some other services on a hetzner VPS, and then also threw in Nextcloud later. Nextcloud was a bit annoying to set up, but mostly because I really wanted to use rootless podman. I imagine a more official way would be easier. It works like a charm now. I have only two users, so mileage may vary.

    Most of my data is outside of Nextcloud and it’s photos and videos, so I ran out of internal storage on the VPS quickly. I’m using a Hetzner storage box now (though they did just increase the price of those…).

    I use the hetzner backup as local. The offsite one is a scaleway s3 via restic, I wanted it to be completely unrelated, just in case Hetzner decide to terminate my account or something.