Hey all! I’m still in the somewhat early stages of setting up my home server. I have Nextcloud installed for file storage/management. However, realizing that it would be nice to have access to the entire storage drive for the server, I installed File Browser.

Now I’m having a hard time justifying having both. I have a handful of services that could be run as individual services (calDav, notes, news, etc… although, phonetrack seems to be hard to replace).

I’ve noticed lists that people have posted of the “must-have” services on their home servers have included both. My question is “why?” It seems like, at a basic level, they serve similar roles. If you remove the app-platform role from Nextcloud by separately hosting the individual apps, what benefit do you get from having both Nextcloud and File Browser?

I really like NextCloud, but i’m having a hard time justifying the resource usage if its functionality can be replaced by a handful of containers. Or, is that the reason to have it, so you don’t have to do that?

Any opinions on the subject would be appreciated.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Tailscale… Finally!

      I used Hamachi since around 2005 on all my Windows machines. It was fantastic.

      When Android came along they didn’t really support it, there was a third party attempt, but it fizzled, Hamachi got bought, and basically languished.

      Just setup Tailscale on every device that can support it, and on my RPi it runs an exit note and a subnet router.

      BRILLIANT! TS alone is enough for me to justify putting an RPi on every family member’s network.

      And you can even share the connection so people can use a web browser to access a device on your mesh.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Why would I use anything that runs my homelab traffic through centralized servers? It kinda defeats my whole purpose in “privatizing” my data. They say they don’t collect data blah blah blah but nobody can be 100% sure what goes on in their own servers.

        I really like the idea of combining VPN with Syncthing-like connectivity but not at the cost of privacy. If they would just allow an opt-out from using their servers and not requiring signing up for an account I would be all over it.

        Unless I’m mistaken, I’ll be sticking with my Wireguard with one port forwarded through my router.