I'm trying to figure out what this buys me versus a Synology box running DS Cloud (Synology's "personal cloud" app). With a Synology NAS I get:
* Data on my own box.
* Remote access via the DS Cloud app on devices, or the web app.
* RAID with an external backup drive.
With Nextcloud, it looks like I get:
* Data stored where ever I like, including my Synology NAS(?).
* Some kind of remote access, and it's stored on the NextCloud(?).
* On my own for backups, no RAID.
* No idea on pricing.
If it's dirt cheap, I guess maybe a Nextcloud is an option. But if it begins to approach the price of Synology's least expensive offers I fail to see the value.
well it is way cheaper than any synology solution, plus that the whole stack is open source so you can actually trust that it does what it says it does. If you care about privacy and security, that is a plus.
It also will probably be slower than most synology solutions and more manual work - we'd like to improve that of course but that means we need help as this is a community effort, not a commercial thing.
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I'm trying to figure out what this buys me versus a Synology box running DS Cloud (Synology's "personal cloud" app). With a Synology NAS I get:
* Data on my own box.
* Remote access via the DS Cloud app on devices, or the web app.
* RAID with an external backup drive.
With Nextcloud, it looks like I get:
* Data stored where ever I like, including my Synology NAS(?).
* Some kind of remote access, and it's stored on the NextCloud(?).
* On my own for backups, no RAID.
* No idea on pricing.
If it's dirt cheap, I guess maybe a Nextcloud is an option. But if it begins to approach the price of Synology's least expensive offers I fail to see the value.
well it is way cheaper than any synology solution, plus that the whole stack is open source so you can actually trust that it does what it says it does. If you care about privacy and security, that is a plus.
It also will probably be slower than most synology solutions and more manual work - we'd like to improve that of course but that means we need help as this is a community effort, not a commercial thing.