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Ways to host nextcloud for free without paying money every month (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by YugiohMaster88@lemm.ee to c/foss@beehaw.org
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i have a question im trying to find a way to self host a nextcloud local instance for free without paying any money every month to different companys or sites is there anyway to do this?

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[–] DrJenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Get a raspberrypi (or similar sbc), second hand computer, or a NAS and host it yourself. You'll have to pay for hardware and power, but assuming you already have an Internet connection, that's it.

[–] YugiohMaster88@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

a raspberry pi has been something ive been looking into for awhile now im considering getting one in the near future

[–] christophski@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In my experience nextcloud was unbearably slow on a Raspi 3b. I'd recommend a an intel j4125 based micro computer, I got mine second hand for about £80 and it's many times faster than the Raspi.

[–] words_number@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

It should run fine for personal use on an rpi4 or 5. The sd card is definitely a bottle neck though, so using a fast usb3 ssd for that probably makes a big difference.

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Have you tried NextcloudPi? It's a special build for SBCs and seems to work much better than my current server (HP Microserver Gen 8) for NC anyway. I am using a pi4 though, so ymmv on a 3b