So I want to build a home server to use as a media server, and to back up my photos etc.
I am also currently doing an online course, and happen to spend some time at work as well as at home working on it. I don’t like using Google where I can help it, but I find google docs really useful. So I’m wondering if there’s an open source application that works essentially the same, but I could run off my own server? It would have to be web-based as I use Windows at work and can’t install new programs :/
edit: Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I’ve got quite a few leads to follow now, it should be fun!
Try Nextcloud. You might need to setup nextcloud office (collabora)
After a lot of searching (granted, years ago) I landed on
Nextcloud with only office.
Nextcloud is pretty awesome. Open source, well supported, new versions like once or twice a year, aetric shittonne of plugins, its awesome.
Onlyoffice feels a lot like Microsoft office, but is online open source, and allows multi user editing, which was always a bit of a pain point with colabora.
Docker OnlyOffice HW requirements are a bit… Odd?
What, you don’t have 6 cores and 12GB of RAM on your 2€/month VPS?
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A server with 6 cores and 16GB of RAM costs like $14 per month.
Link please?
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I have that on my RPi 50B! /s
We joke, but I actually have an 8-core Orange Pi with 16GB RAM and a 512GB NVMe SSD that performs really well running Debian/Gnome!
Yes, I know these are far more powerful than RPi4s. I just wen with RPi because of cost and community…
Nextcloud is laggy and bloated, would not recommend
Good application but performance sucks
Sounds like someone wasn’t using redis
You got me there
I was also running it on a pi 4 though because I don’t want a high powered machine sucking up energy and kicking out heat 24/7
What you mean bloated? It is laggy in web browser, but using client apps solve that problem. It would be awesome if its more snappy, but I couldnt find anything better for my needs. What do you use?
I was running the desktop app and the web app. I meant the server is laggy, though as it was melting my raspberry pi down to do something I could achieve with much lighter weight tools
Running on a raspberry pi it was struggling to serve even one user
In addition to other suggestions, there’s Collabora Online
I adore Seafile and this looks like a great option. I haven’t been able to get it going on my instance yet, but I’m still learning all of this self hosting and FOSS stuff.
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Nextcloud needs a heaping helping of a disclaimer before anyone installs it.
Use the Docker or Podman images, they’ll include most things a lot of first time users leave out that render Nextcloud buggy and inconsistent. It includes a cache, and about half of the security issues preconfigured out of the box.
Installing it native from a guide with zero explanation beyond “welp, there’s the start page” as the final step really doesn’t do much for people and there’s a lot of guides out there like that for Nextcloud.
Even with Docker, my feeling is that BC is something extremely fragile andd one has to be quite careful when updating it, for instance.
I’ve been using Nextcloud docker for quite some time, updated it countless times, have never had any problems whatsoever.
OnlyOffice?
You might also wanna check yunohost.org . It’s a well organized self hosting platform where you can install with few clicks and has huge amount of Foss apps, including office and media ones and Nextcloud that others suggested.
or if you don´t want to host it yourself: https://qlick.cloud and use Nextcloud which comes with Collabora Online installed.
I just use syncthing and set up the appropriate send /receive permissions for each folder
When I want to access those files remotely, I just sftp / ssh into the server. (Someone more knowledgeble than me can help you with that part, I just install Tailscale on my devices for remote ssh)
sure it may not be elegant, but is pretty easy to maintain in the long run (see complaints about updating / setting up nextcloud in this thread)
maybe this will help with setup. Note he is doing bidirectional sync, but one way sync works too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBVTedUWbfg
edit: forgot to mention, this is cross platform across Mac, Windows, Android, and Linux. Not sure about iOS
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=dBVTedUWbfg
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Seafile and OnlyOffice are quite stable.
I’m using Onlyoffice and it works really well. Although I use it with kDrive from Infomaniak, I’m almost sure you can run it on your own server.
In fact I managed to ditch Google for everything but I can’t find a good replacement for Google photos which I’m not using anymore.
@Dariusmiles2123 @JoelJ
for photos, I decided to buy a raspberry pi two years ago and to host photos and videos for my familly, using a free software with application on mobile phones (ios and android).
The compagny has a hosted offer, but i prefered to do in my own.
software is: https://piwigo.org/
and forum is there: https://piwigo.org/forum/
Enjoy
If question don’t hesitate.Thanks for the answer.
I’d really want to keep my pictures on my kDrive and just have some remote access to the pictures via whatever protocol.
Maybe what I need doesn’t exist and I’ll have to wait until kDrive gets its own photo management tool😇
@Dariusmiles2123
kDrive is accessible under Ubuntu, Windows and MaOS, it means that piwigo should be able to manage photos store on kDrive.I’ll give it a try then. Thanks
Groff
thats really not helpful
