Oh, nice to see KISS showcased here :) I actually started the project 13 years ago... Seems like a lifetime ago!
A big thank you to all the devs that contributed and still contribute over time :)
I would just like to personally thank you for you efforts. It's rare these days to see a simple solution to a problem executed effectively. I literally use your software everyday.
The writes are streamed in near real time to five followers, acknowledging it near instantly. The cloudflare blog article mention this more in depth. So writes remain fast, while still having durability.
Yeah -- Ireland and Netherlands are both top contributors on a per capita basis. Though this was only accelerated recently i.e. the 2023 budget not the 2021 budget. Ireland on many occasions has be a net recipient before this while the Dutch have a longer history of being a net contributor.
Nah; Ireland's the biggest per capita contributor, and the Netherlands is fourth (after Luxembourg and Belgium).
(Not sure what's going on with Belgium; Ireland, Luxembourg and to some extent the Netherlands have rather inflated GDPs, which drives up contribution amounts, but Belgium's isn't particularly high.)
My experience with Nextcloud was underwhelming. Regular crashes, very slow sync if you have thousands of files, full reupload on any change and ignored files that do not get synced with no warnings. I had made five accounts for my family and each of them got a separate blocking bug. The worst part was the syncing of shared folders.
I ended up using Seafile, which is mostly open source and has beek rock solid for the past two years. I'm not looking back!
+1 here. Nextcloud is a pile of PHP scripts, while Seafile splits and diffs individual file blocks, and absolutely flies at 'whatever the lower of of your network and drive speed is', handling any file sizes you can throw at it.
On the other hand, Seafile is also a binary distributed by Chinese team, and if I was a Chinese secret service, I'd build in all the backdoors I can, which I guess already happened.
> On the other hand, Seafile is also a binary distributed by Chinese team, and if I was a Chinese secret service, I'd build in all the backdoors I can
This was the reason I tried and subsequently passed on Seafile. It’s one thing if it’s just my stuff, but I was setting it up as a syncing server for friends and family. I just wasn’t comfortable with this prospect and being responsible for others’ files, as well.
It's not weak as such, but there are gotchas in this faq (mostly related to metadata and key file caching) that effectively mean a casual user won't have end to end encryption. That said, I do not know of a cloud provider that does this well. You could just as easily build on top of this service with rclone (and the crypt backend) as any other. Then it is probably fine, but then you are already not a casual user.
I will say that in the west it is probably better to have your personal life invaded (which for a casual user is the reality you must face. It will happen) by China than the US (broadly your choices due to prism), as they are less likely to have an impact on your day-to-day functioning.
> Seafile is also a binary distributed by Chinese team
Web search for Seafile turned up a GitHub repository, so seems like it's open source? That doesn't rule out the possibility of a carefully-hidden back door that no one has found yet, of course. But I think it should increase confidence over a closed-source binary distribution.
Regardless, this level of xenophobia is getting a little tiresome. If you have evidence that this project is run by or sponsored by the Chinese government, then sure, I'd find that a showstopper as well. But a group of people, who just happen to be Chinese, building something shouldn't immediately be grounds for dismissal. China is a very big place, with a truly staggering number of people, and the Chinese government -- contrary to popular belief -- doesn't have its hands in everything its citizens do.
This! He says OneDrive is buggy, but that’s nothing compared to Nextcloud. He’s in for a big disappointment.
Seafile is a much better choice if you’re only looking for FileSync (without the whole App Store thing).
Another new and already better and faster contender: ownCloud OCIS, which is a complete Go rewrite of ownCloud and is already very fast and efficient and works like a charm for file sharing.
One thing that made me shy away from Seafile was the limitations of its Android client. IIRC it could only upload photos, not sync folders. So couldn't use it for notes, voice recordings, downloads, books...
I considered Syncthing as well, but I wanted both the arbitrary file sync and the web-based features. Figured I'd rather deal with Nextcloud's poor performance than cobble together a crappy Nextcloud clone via three separate apps.
I'm definitely keeping an eye out for OCIS though.
Pretty much exactly the same position. I use NC for file-syncing, WebDAV, and the webinterface for those files only, but it’s not exactly great. But for similar reasons as you, it’s still the solution I’m stuck with for now.
As a sysadmin managing Nextcloud on an on premise VPS, we have none of the problems you mentioned. We have 20+ accounts, tons of shared files, and whatnot.
Just upgraded to Nextcloud 25 (literally 20 minutes ago), and no problems whatsoever.
I deployed it on a virtualized server which is not extremely powerful, and everybody seems to enjoy the productivity boost it brought into the team.
I upgraded to Nexcloud25 and all Gui Customization's are gone...once again. I don't really like the php-nextcloud, using it for well over 4 years there is always something not right. I really hope the go-version is better.
As with javascript a lot of PHP's problems are not inherent to the language but rather to the culture around it. It must be avoided for that reason, but it is hard to state that in full every time. So folks use the shorthand you see.
Surprising that your and the OP's experiences are so different. Based on the description, I think it's safe to assume the OP also has thousands of files, some of them very large.
I wonder if the issue is with Nextcloud itself, or with the particular hosting provider.
