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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So far my experience with Nextcloud has been that it is a pain in the arse to install, and once it's installed is slow as anything. Literally couldn't run it on my pi 3b, now got it up and running pretty nicely on a NUC but it's still not great. Have caching set up.

I have the notes app installed on my android phone and I can never used rich text editing because it gives timeout error.

This shouldn't be this complicated. All I want is to de-Google my documents and notes, and self-host my kanban. I don't really need the rest though it's nice to have the options.

Do people use alternatives? Am I doing something completely wrong? I set it up using nginx which I know is not supported, but the alternative using Docker AIO didn't allow me to use custom port easily.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have nextcloud running on docker on a Raspberry Pi 4 and I'd say the performance is comparable to Onedrive web interface. If you're getting timeouts then something must be wrong with the setup, not the machine it's running on. Using Postgres instead of MySQL or using an SSD instead of HDD is not going to help your issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nextcloud is not easy to setup, that´s right, but it is not this complicated. Use Postgres as database, it is faster than MySQL. Install Redis as Cache and configure PHP Cache too. This will speedup the most. I use nextcloud installed directly on the host, no docker. Another small guide is here for Postgres and Apache

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm my experience, nextcloud is quite I/O bound. The performance of your storage device will greatly affect nextcloud performance. But if you're already using SSD and the performance still bad, maybe there are other issues with your setup.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

For me, speed isn't the only issue. Everything about nc seems to be cobbled together in the most inconvenient way possible. Updates have always been hit or miss for me - and if you choose to use dockerized versions, you might as well shoot yourself, everything is very slow, even as the only use having it running on a quite capable machine it feels sluggish (not slow, but uncomfortably delayed).

It's a glorified Dropbox clone, why do I need anything more than a rpi1 for that?