Looking for a self-hosted file share tool

[guyinpv]

@bnrstnr
Good to know. Can you set up anonymous upload drops or does each user need an account?

[coliver]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

anonymous upload

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/10/user_manual/files/file_drop.html

[JaredBusch]

I use this functionality rarely in Nextcloud, but I do use it. It works well.

[bnrstnr]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

Good to know. Can you set up anonymous upload drops or does each user need an account?

Here are all the options. Yes, you can have anonymous uploads.

[guyinpv]

What would you say NextCloud most resembles as far as a commercial product? Can it directly replace everything done by Dropbox, and/or Box, and/or Google Drive, OneDrive, etc?

I am also migrating us off Box and originally was going to use OneDrive because we have Office365 until I learned that shared folders in OD can't even sync to computers, making it 100% useless as a file share tool.

So along with this public uploading file share project, I'm also wanting to replace Box and OneDrive with a better company file share system.

My biggest fear is self-hosting, I just don't want maintenance and support issues, I want things to be extremely robust, this is a twitchy company that tends to explode when our apps/services don't work right.

[coliver]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

What would you say NextCloud most resembles as far as a commercial product? Can it directly replace everything done by Dropbox, and/or Box, and/or Google Drive, OneDrive, etc?

Yes.

[bnrstnr]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

My biggest fear is self-hosting, I just don't want maintenance and support issues, I want things to be extremely robust, this is a twitchy company that tends to explode when our apps/services don't work right.

I believe you can pay for hosted service, with support, too, if you prefer.

[scottalanmiller]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

What would you say NextCloud most resembles as far as a commercial product? Can it directly replace everything done by Dropbox, and/or Box, and/or Google Drive, OneDrive, etc?

Yes, it does everything you'd expect from a big commercial service.

[scottalanmiller]

@bnrstnr said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

My biggest fear is self-hosting, I just don't want maintenance and support issues, I want things to be extremely robust, this is a twitchy company that tends to explode when our apps/services don't work right.

I believe you can pay for hosted service, with support, too, if you prefer.

Yup, that's not hard to find.

[scottalanmiller]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

@bnrstnr
Good to know. Can you set up anonymous upload drops or does each user need an account?

We use this, it's awesome.

[momurda]

You can get hosted, here is a list from the nextcloud site.
https://nextcloud.com/providers/

[guyinpv]

I typically use VULTR, and they have it as a default app so I just ran that. Installed without a hitch on Ubuntu 16.04.
Did some initial configuring and a couple users. Now uploading a few gigs of some of our files.

Anything I need to know about running this? Troubleshooting common issues? Ways to make it perform better? Tricks or tips?

Note that our users don't use the web interface, I couldn't pay them enough to make them use a web interface for file management. All that matters is how robust the windows sync tool is.

[scottalanmiller]

Until recently we used Vultr and Fedora for NC and it worked well. RAM was tight for sure, though.

[guyinpv]

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

Until recently we used Vultr and Fedora for NC and it worked well. RAM was tight for sure, though.

$5 box on VULTR is 1GB now. You think we'd stretch that with about 12 users and moderate activity on mostly Word/Excel files of about 13GB total?

[scottalanmiller]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

Until recently we used Vultr and Fedora for NC and it worked well. RAM was tight for sure, though.

$5 box on VULTR is 1GB now. You think we'd stretch that with about 12 users and moderate activity on mostly Word/Excel files of about 13GB total?

Oh you are looking at the non-storage units?

Yeah. It'll struggle but work.

[guyinpv]

@scottalanmiller Interesting. Well if that's the case I just bump up to the $10 plan. Still cheaper than any other service charging $5 to $10 per user.

I tried to give Turnkey Cloud a try and boy was that a joke.

[scottalanmiller]

@guyinpv said in Looking for a self-hosted file share tool:

@scottalanmiller Interesting. Well if that's the case I just bump up to the $10 plan. Still cheaper than any other service charging $5 to $10 per user.

At 1GB of RAM, even with swap space added, I found it often failing to be able to update. 2GB should be perfectly fine, though.

We have it with 12GB now, but we aren't using nearly that much.

[guyinpv]

I've put nodequery on it to monitor resource use, it'll alert me if anything goes above 80%. I'll be curious to see how it behaves as I add the users onto it.

[guyinpv]

With all our files uploaded, and just me and my test laptop connected, it's using about 360MB RAM.

[JaredBusch]

This is a CentOS 7 VM with 2 vProcs and 3GB RAM.
Using Remi to get PHP 7.1

All users have the sync client installed on their computer. This is not accessed any other way, generally.