I am hosting more than 10 services currently but only Nextcloud sends me errors periodically and only Nextcloud is super extremely painfully slow. I quit this sh*t. No more troubleshooting and optimization.

There are mainly 4 services in Nextcloud I’m using:

  • Files: as simple server for upload and download binaries
  • Calendar (with DAVx5): as sync server without web UI
  • Notes: simple note-taking
  • Network folder: mounted on Linux dolphin

Could you recommend me the alternatives for these? All services are supposed to be exposed by HTTPS, so authentication like login is needed. And I’ve tried note-taking apps like Joplin or trillium but couldn’t like it.

Thanks in advance.

  • r3dk0w@alien.topB
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    If you’re having issues with NextCloud being slow and having errors, it’s probably because the machine you are running it on is low on RAM and/or CPU.

    I bring this up because what ever replacements you try would likely have the same issues.

    My NextCloud instance was nearly unusable when I had it on a Raspberry PI 3, but when I moved it to a container on my faster machine (AMD Ryzen 7 4800U with 16GB of ram) it now works flawlessly.

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      I agree with this. It needs a good amount of CPU cycle and RAM. Raspi struggled for me too.

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        My NC instance runs on a 24GB RAM, 4 CPU Ampere A1 host(Oracle), and still struggles. YMMV.

        And it struggles as a photo backup host an i5-7xxx and 16GB RAM at home.


        It’s not absurdly slow, it’s just…irritating sometimes.

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        Even if you ran a basic sqlite nexcloud, if properly optimized, you can deal with millions of files like its nothing. And that is the issue, the bugs and lacking optimization…

        4650g + 64GB ram + Mysql and it was file locking on just a 21k 10GB folder constantly.

        I have written apps (in Go) that do similar and process data 100 times faster then nextcloud. Hell, my scrapers are faster then nextcloud in a local netwerk, and that is dealing with external data, over the internet.

        Its BADLY designed software that puts the blame on the consumer to get bigger and better hardware, for what is essentially, early 2000 functionality.

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          Mysql and it was file locking on just a 21k 10GB folder constantly

          It’ll definitely do that if you keep your database on a network share with spinning disks.

          Spin up a container with sqlite in a ram disk and point it to your same data location. Most of the problems go away.

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            It’ll definitely do that if you keep your database on a network share with spinning disks.

            Database and Nextcloud where on a 4TB NVME drive … in Mysql with plenty of cache/memory assigned to it. Not my first rodeo, …

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              I’m running on an SSD as a VM on 10yr old laptop and have had very few issues compared to running on Raspis in the last. It’s not my first rodeo either and found Debian with NexCloudPi setup script worked the best, then restore from backup. The WebUI is performing great as well as bookmarks, contacts, calendar, video chats and most things I’ve thrown at it. NVME may be overkill but the combination of solid CPU, RAM and Disk IO should alleviate any problems. My hunch is there are other resource constraints or bottlenecks at play, perhaps DDOS or other attacks (experienced that for sure and you can test by dropping your firewall ingress rules to confirm).

              Also, this is FOSS and I find the features and usability are better than anything else out there, especially with Letsencrypt.

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    I have my issues with Nextcloud, but it’s still, by far, the best solution I’ve come across.

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    I was on the same boat when I was running NC on a container. I switched to VM, and most of my issues have been resolved, but collabora. I am currently using the built-in collabora server, which is slow.

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    Sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience. I’ve been running the lsio Nextcloud docker container for 4 years without any issues at all.

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    Same and looking forward to the responses here. Nextcloud is too big and complicated. I deployed Immich to cover for the photo library. Still looking for a good solution for notes though.

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    • Syncthing for files.
    • Proton calendar (so not self hosted)
    • Joplin, using file based sync with aforementioned syncthing. I saw you didn’t like it though.
    • I occasionally use scp
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      For calendaring, I also went with the option of syncthing via DecSync. I can get my contacts and calendar on Android and Thunderbird, so I can avoid yet another unnecessary webapp.

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        This does look cool! But I notice that there’s really only one contributor (technically two, but the second only did one tiny commit) and they haven’t contributed any code in over a year. I don’t want to invest too much time migrating to a stale if not dead project.

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          Honestly, I think that the lack of commits is more due to the application being feature complete than “dead”. I’ve been using it for at least 3 years now and it works quite well.

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    Synology Drive is rock solid. Not open source though if that’s important to you and technically requires Synology hardware.

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    You have not stated the hardware you are running this on. It makes a huge difference. Hope this is not Raspi?

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      NC on RPi 4 with 8 GB RAM works fine for me. The RPi 3 turned out to be lacking sufficient amount of RAM (1GB) after a NC version update.

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      Hope this is not Raspi?

      What is wrong with RPi? I thought RPi 4 for two calendars (one calendar per user) on nextcloud would be plenty, looking at the requirements:

      A 64-bit CPU, OS and PHP is required for Nextcloud to run well. …
      Nextcloud needs a minimum of 128MB RAM per process, and we recommend a minimum of 512MB RAM per process.

      Also, how resource intensive could/should be syncing two personal calendars (via Thunderbird)? I don’t understand, why NextCloud with this virtually negligible task struggles so much. The pi has 7+GB of free memory, CPU load under few %, rarely one core has some load, most of the time nothing accesses the card nor disk (virtually 0 iowait; only with a short spike once every 5 minutes). Why does Nextcloud take half a minute to several minutes for a sync of one calendar in Thunderbird?

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        Its underpowered, especially for an application based on PHP which is single threaded so requires a core with a fast clock. The RPi4 with 1.5Ghz is woefully underpowered to drive anything php backed.

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          I see 1.8GHz in glances (in my case actively cooled, but since it doesn’t seem to max any core, it probably doesn’t matter). I have other RPi4s, I wonder why is backend in Java (well, Scala) ok, backend in Haskell ok, but backend in PHP wouldn’t be? I still don’t understand how Nextcloud can lock up for so long (tens of seconds) on a simple write event into calendar operation. That hacky unoptimized Java BE which does joins manually and inserts sequentially (so from a db perspective just awful), handles 5-10 times more data and still does it order of magnitude faster. My old phone which was weaker than even RPi4 could handle dozens of such small operations in one second (I believe that was SQLite + Java). There must something seriously wrong with Nextcloud (including PHP runtime) and/or the RPi, because such insignificant amount of data (1 word title, one date, one reminder option), most likely merely few dozens of bytes, takes so incredibly long to process and write to db…

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            i cant comment on the differences between languages, but it probably also has a lot to do on how nextcloud is written. unoptimized software is always going to be slower than it’s counterpart.

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    Owncloud.

    I personally never caught the Nextcloud hype, and stuck with the original. So far I’ve heard (and seen, having tried it twoce) nothing but trouble from Nextcloud while my Owncloud install continues to be rock solid for going on 10 years (regularly updated, of course!).

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      Dunno, running my nextcloud for a long time now, even updating the lazy way over the web UI and not the suggested CLI, not even once had a problem that was Nextclouds fault.

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      I personally never caught the Nextcloud hype

      The “hype” being simply Nextcloud not being OwnCloud which turned proprietary, no?

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        Owncloud is not proprietary (it’s AGPLv3) and I’m really not sure where people get that idea.

        The original Nextcloud/Owncloud fork was due to disagreements in development direction, not (say) like Jellyfin/Emby where there was actually a license change. Nextcloud wanted to “move fast”, Owncloud wanted stability. There was potential concern around the time of the fork that, perhaps, hypothetically, some day, Owncloud might “go proprietary”, but going on close to 10 years that has not happened.

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      I always recommend OwnCloud. It even has a raw photo viewer plugin and if you know anything about RAW 24 megapixel photos, they are tough to load. But with owncloud a folder full of 30 pictures loads within 10-15 seconds

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      Same. I ran OwnCloud and Nextcloud in parallel for a while until a Nextcloud update nuked it and my wife lost some of her college work.

      After that I’ve appreciated the slower more deliberate pace of OwnCloud

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    PSA: saying “I run Nextcloud and don’t have any problems” doesn’t help anyone or contribute anything useful to the conversation. It just makes you look like an insecure fanboy.

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      Disagree, seeing as OP has not posted anything other than “I run Nextcloud and have problems”, providing a counter is straightforward and expected.

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          Well, the comments were helpful to me, in trying to determine if I want to put effort into setting up Nextcloud. A post full of alternatives, with people saying that Nextcloud is buggy? Obviously, look at the alternatives.

          A post full of comments saying “you shouldnt have those issues, want some help troubleshooting your config” and a couple alternatives? Probably worth looking into Nextcloud rather than writing it off.

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      No, it makes you look insecure about your objectivity. Spreading FUD about a FOSS project isn’t helpful, and it’s usually down to misconfiguration or poor hardware that it doesn’t run properly.

      I see plenty of folks who think they’ve got Redis setup but are following crap guides, so it isn’t working.

  • Charming-Molasses-22@alien.topB
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    I use linuxserver.io’s nextcloud docker image. While I’ve seen people struggle to setup Nextcloud properly to the point of just giving and installing the snap version of it, I can count the number of times I’ve needed to do manual interventions for nextcloud with LSIO’s nextcloud image. It works like a charm.