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Looking for some Google Workspace alternatives (lemmy.world)
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After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I've started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.

So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.

While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I'm in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.

  • Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
  • Drive: In short, If possible, I'd prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc... Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it's slow as hell.
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[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay, I'm genuinely confused about the NextCloud hate.

I've been using it for a month, and It's literally had 0 issues.

Nothing about it seems unstable or slow. I'm 99% certain if you're having issues with nextcloud, it's a hardware issue.

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends what you're running it on. If you're running it on an 8c/16t 64gb system, you're probably fine.

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

similar enough. 6c/12t 32gb system.

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

see... and most of us (RPis excluded) rent cheap servers where software is expected to run performantly, like 4c/8t at best (bare), but 2c/4t nucs are probably a majority... Adding to that, we run additional services, next to NC, and based on the traffic (probably up to 5 users max simultaneously) this should be fairly enough.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I run a home server and a NAS and I have been trying to get Nextcloud running for years, lately having some success using Docker. Sure it works, but slow as molasses. That is immensely frustrating.

[–] itmike@fikaverse.club 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@PlutoniumAcid @spudwart Did you configure memcache and nextclouds scheduled maintenance job, both are very much needed for nextcloud to work good.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have been testing various ready-made Docker containers, hoping one of them might be okay. So far no luck.

[–] zorflieg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It gets hate for the number of users over the years who run a seemingly innocuous update and it suddenly nerfs their server and they have to roll back and wait and ponder why it happened meanwhile being stuck without updates until they figure out why. I left because of it but I'm told it doesn't happen anywhere near as often as it once did.