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    16 hours ago

    My 1Tb nextcloud instance cost around 10CAD per month and I get office suite and much more.

    NextCloud is open source and self-hostable? Why not just cut out the middle man, pay for a cheap desktop computer, turn it into a server and host it yourself?

    I don’t understand why people and organisation don’t use it more

    I personally didn’t like NextCloud, I felt like for the tools they offered there were better alternatives out there, it also felt like I was bringing work home which is a big no-no.

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        10 hours ago

        What do you like better? Especially if it’s not like bringing work home.

        In the brief time I used it I’ll admit it offers quite a lot of tools in a single service, I never explored all of them but found alternatives to offer more functionality.

        PDF Editor? BentoPDF

        Calendar? Well there are plethora’s of WebDAV softwares out there; SabreDAV, Davis, Milton.

        Text and or calls? Well lately I’ve converted majority of my chats to Matrix using my own home server and using Sable as my client, I much prefer the transparency with encryption keys.


        If you want everything in one place sure NextCloud is certainly the route, however as I mentioned in my previous comment it felt like i was at work when I was at home, it didn’t fit the need for me and was considered wasted resources on my server.