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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Cloud Based File Store and Sync
I started with owncloud, and moved to Nextcloud when it forked. I really
like the direction it has gone in both their enterprise paid services and
the foss versions.

Let me know if you have any questions. It will run anyplace you can run PHP
(with the right modules)

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:46 AM der.hans <> wrote:

> Am 13. Mar, 2020 schwätzte Nathan (PLUGAZ) so:
>
> moin moin Nathan,
>
> I was going to suggest NextCloud. I know a bunch of people using it and
> there were lots of happy fans at the BoF at SCaLE.
>
> I definitely suggest NextCloud rather than OwnCloud. I also recommend
> Frank's talk about why he forked his own project to make NextCloud and
> interviews about it.
>
>
> https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/why-i-forked-my-own-project-and-my-own-company-31c3/
>
>
> https://librelounge.org/episodes/32-companies-money-and-society-with-frank-karlitschek.html
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I am a long time user of Dropbox, simply to keep a couple gigs of files
> > synced between machines and a laptop. I also use the Android app on
> occasion,
> > and I appreciate the camera uploads.
> >
> > As most of you are probably aware, Dropbox isn't very friendly any more
> > towards multiple machines so I've been hunting for something else. I
> like the
> > idea of MEGA and it's end to end encryption...though I'm not sure how
> much I
> > trust it. I've been using it for a few weeks and at first it seemed
> really
> > good, but it's been rather flaky lately. So I'm back on the hunt.
> >
> > Any recommendations?
> >
> > I am looking at setting up an ownCloud on my existing Digital Ocean
> server,
> > or maybe my local server at home, though I'm not sure I want attention
> being
> > drawn to my home ip address. Any thoughts?
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