My only advice would be to go full NextCloud at first for simplicity instead of trying to integrate it with other services.

That being said, if later on you’re looking for a way to store images I’d highly recommend Immich, I just finished setting up my own hosting setup a few days ago and it is gorgeous.

2 weeks ago, I suscribed to a pre-installed Nextcloud service. IT IS SO WORTH IT!!! It’s much more that what I was expeting. Data storgage of course, but tons of super usefull apps. Deck to replace Trello, News for rss feeds, Only Office for an online suite, Memories for picture, a very usefull media player, and much more. In the age of AI, I’m never again storing anything on Google or MS storage. We nees to take the internet back, fuck the GAFAM.

I selfhost my own nextcloud for notes and documents that I would like on my phone but not via google.

It is not a google docs/gmail/whatever replacement. They’ve spent the past few years hardening it and pushing for all the hallmarks of enterprise first software (e.g. making it a complete fustercluck to not have a proper domain name) but you still have stability and performance issues and the occasional upgrade issue that fucks up everything

I would also point out that if you aren’t selfhosting, what are you actually getting out of this? You are just spreading your data out to other companies who are often less transparent about how they monetize you.

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy I have been using Nextcloud on a cheap Australian VPS for a few months now. It is far from a perfect solution, it is slow, the quality of it’s apps are… mixed, BUT, I prefer it over the big tech solutions I used to use by far.

If you do want to go down this route, I recommend getting a cheapo VPS (4 GB of ram will do the job) or setup an old laptop or PC as a home server, then chuck the Nextcloud AIO docker image on it. It handles everything for you and makes life easy.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Nextcloud is a lot better than owncloud IMO

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy It’s awesome! I have storage share from Hetzner.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

I recommend portknox.net. One of the Nextcloud team suggested them to me, and they are pretty awesome.

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy I’ve been self-hosting and also use my instance for my private IT business. From what I can tell it’s built on owncloud and the the server commands use the occ command that references that codebase.
Key apps to check out:
- Memories (for photos)
- Deck (for Kanban productivity boards)
- Mastodon Integration
- Polls (Doodle Alternative)
- Forms
-Appointments
- Talk (May need a high-end signaling server but can replace Google Meetup/Teams/Zoom/Slack)

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy I wish there was a better alternative than NextCloud (or that NextCloud was better). It’s not great, but it’s ok and it depends on what you’re going to use it for.

You should probably find an Australian provider, but look for someone that has an actual Collabora server with your managed account (avoid the community version server which is unstable).

Also, make sure that you can install apps (which in most cases you can), you need them. For instance, if you’re going to use it for photos, the default Photos app very limited and you need the Memories app for timelines and albums.

If some of your money (to the provider) goes into development, not only hosting, it’s probably a better investement.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Maybe the selfhosted community in lemmy can help you

Late to the party but just another vote for Nextcloud. I used a paid subscription initially but then took the plunge, bought a Pi 4 & SSD for storage then read up & figured out how to self host.

It was my first experience with Linux, I fell over many times but dont give in as after all the hair pulling & teeth grinding it becomes rewarding & even a little “fun” when you get there & then become confident enough to take on & complete further Pi projects.

The Pi can handle Libre Office (synced through Nextcloud, handled on mobile by Collabora Office).

Whilst you’re at it, why not sync the notes you’ll inevitability make on your self hosting journey through your Nextcloud instance? Try Joplin & do away with Google Docs, Evernote etc into the bargain

I trialled the self hosted NextCloud for a while, but the quality of apps is just meh. So instead I bought a Synology NAS. Turned out their apps are actually on par with Google. And you own everything.

@[email protected] @[email protected] I ditched Google & Microsoft and went to #NextCloud.

Overall, works well. The interface is a bit dated looking and sometimes slow, but overall it has not let me down.

@ajsadauskas @asklemmy I’m also doing this but doing some of the hosting myself. I’m using @doncow to host my own email. I’m also looking at @cryptpad for apps. Those could fit your needs also. I’m not a nextcloud fan but I think these do have integrations.

If you ever decide to self-host and not use a managed provider, take this advice: install it on an SSD (fastest possible you can).