With the electricity prices in most European countries its almost as expensive to run it yourself as using a cloud service. Many people actually made thorough calculations on this
@@lllongreennah, I like keeping my own stuff, local host will do just fine for me, coupled by Jellyfin with my own content is top tier. But to each their own
You should NEVER open ports for things like this. There is constant scans on all IP adress spaces and You WILL get scanned and they will try to breach your network. Its only a question of WHEN there will be a vulnerability they can use, not IF. Using it via a VPN or something like Tailscale is an absolute must.
@deusvinces2520 you clearly don't understand what it means to get your home network and router /appliance breached and trojaned. You will get your network and IP adress used to hack other people including your IP adressed used for criminal purposes including things you definitely don't want to even be suspected of by the authorities
@@GaryExplains I actually plan on using next cloud and maybe OVM with a dell wyse 5070 or a Lenovo Tiny m70q thin client either one should do fine but the Lenovo's cpu (pentium gold) can be upgraded if i ever want it to do more in the future, where as the Wyse can not.
@Gary Explains. Thanks for another interesting and enjoyable video. But I hope You, or some of in Your audience can clarify/answer my possibly very naive/stupid question. But is this "scenario" all under the supposition that You have a static IP that is also available to connect into from "the web outside". Meaning that You are now in essence a system-admin for an internet connected server ? Admittedly You are running an "off the shelf package" ((NextCloud)) But You still have to be aware of the risks and drawbacks of running a "service" that can be reached from "the outside"... Or what am I missing, does this come with some form of "built in VPN".. ? Best regards.
I love NextCloud. I'm doing basically what's in this video. I'm using an AMD FX computer I got for under $100 (not including the 5TB hard drive I added to it.). This is one of the few cases where I like Snap packages. The Snap version of Nextcloud is configured really well and updates itself automatically. In my experience the non-snap version of Nextcloud defaults to not using enough RAM to be performant, and is way more work to set up. In short, this video is excellent. 🙂
If you don't want to use additional products, you can also set up port forwarding on your router. The manual for your router should have a section on how to set up port forwarding for a server, assuming it came with a comprehensible manual.
I wonder if it is somehow possible to connect it to the internet so that I can access it from anywhere without paying for a static IP ? I do have a domain which I am using to host a personal website using Digital Ocean. I do have a broadband connection at home, but no static IP.
Use wireguard, tailscale or some other service to create a vpn. Creating holes in your firewall and port forwarding is another option, but it's highly unrecommended due to security concerns and will not work if your ISP uses CG-NAT.
I use NextcloudPi on my Raspberry Pi 5, I use it for file sync and Talk, including video meetings ..., with client on iPhone. I installed NextclouPi straight on a 1 TB SSD. A bit of a hassle to set up, but now it's just running. The same Pi is also running Pi Hole, simultaneously. Humbly, Ylan
@@GaryExplains no, old language mean more bugs, less secure and worse performance, more vulnerability and requires more system resource and more man hours to maintain. Not saying only rust or zig programs are the only golden standard. At least it should write in Go and safer language nowadays. Being open source and having more functionality doesn't mean automatically it's more secure and reliable.
Eh? Old language means more mature, well tested, and proven, not "more bugs". Nextcloud was started in 2016 when zig didn't exist and nobody had heard of rust. Go was around but it wasn't main stream yet. You going to rewrite yourself in Go?
@@GaryExplains More mature, well tested, and proven.. does't tranlate in real world, that's what markting/sale department arguments/sales pitch to enterprise customer 😄 I don't know how many hours I waisted on crappy php code base through my early years of my career, and how many pain and stress it cause me and my colleagues. It's correct, zig, rust, go, mojo, kotlin doesn't exist in the early 2000. I much prefer compile language that shout at me if I am doing something stupid, less bug during development then at runtime in production with real customer. I would rather use something like CasaOS, and mix and match my own cloud solutions then use Nextcloud, yes it does require knowledge and skills, either as linux super user or developer. Nothing against open source/free software, but technical choices do affect quality of code base and maintainability in the long run.
@@GaryExplains poorly maintained plug-ins, slow performance no redundancies. I also found upgrades unreliable always had to tinker with it to get it working again. Just not worth the hassle. Why use it when you can use MS or google for dirt cheap and it works better. Only selfhosted service ive been impressed with in ages is immich.
