Hey all! I’m still in the somewhat early stages of setting up my home server. I have Nextcloud installed for file storage/management. However, realizing that it would be nice to have access to the entire storage drive for the server, I installed File Browser.

Now I’m having a hard time justifying having both. I have a handful of services that could be run as individual services (calDav, notes, news, etc… although, phonetrack seems to be hard to replace).

I’ve noticed lists that people have posted of the “must-have” services on their home servers have included both. My question is “why?” It seems like, at a basic level, they serve similar roles. If you remove the app-platform role from Nextcloud by separately hosting the individual apps, what benefit do you get from having both Nextcloud and File Browser?

I really like NextCloud, but i’m having a hard time justifying the resource usage if its functionality can be replaced by a handful of containers. Or, is that the reason to have it, so you don’t have to do that?

Any opinions on the subject would be appreciated.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Tailscale… Finally!

      I used Hamachi since around 2005 on all my Windows machines. It was fantastic.

      When Android came along they didn’t really support it, there was a third party attempt, but it fizzled, Hamachi got bought, and basically languished.

      Just setup Tailscale on every device that can support it, and on my RPi it runs an exit note and a subnet router.

      BRILLIANT! TS alone is enough for me to justify putting an RPi on every family member’s network.

      And you can even share the connection so people can use a web browser to access a device on your mesh.