by BrunoBernardino on 2/21/25, 9:23 AM with 49 comments
Many things changed (check the commits [2] or the video updates [3] for more details), we've got one recurring sponsor, and recently the GitHub repo [4] passed 400 stars! We also just launched a new option to buy access to a managed instance.
If you have any suggestions, comments, or recommendations, I'd love to hear about it.
Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726172
[2] https://github.com/bewcloud/bewcloud/commits/main/
by cess11 on 2/21/25, 12:01 PM
To start, their resource footprints (CPU, memory) are huge when idle."
I've recently imported something like 2TB into a NextCloud instance on a Debian system. It idles at 0% CPU and 2GB RAM.
I would not choose JavaScript over PHP on the server.
How are you testing security? Do you have a security background?
by dallamaneni on 2/21/25, 3:19 PM
Most lightweight alternatives I found use some non standard format to store files instead of leaving it to the filesystem which keeps me away from using those. I am glad bewCloud is not doing that.
by noname120 on 2/21/25, 2:22 PM
docker compose run --rm website bash -c "cd /app && make migrate-db"
make: *** No rule to make target 'migrate-db'. Stop.
docker compose run --rm -it website bash -c "cd /app && deno --allow-read --allow-env --allow-net migrate-db.ts"by dingdingdang on 2/21/25, 11:17 AM
by heinrich5991 on 2/21/25, 10:51 AM
by bityard on 2/21/25, 5:30 PM
I initially ran Nextcloud in order to have a self-hosted Dropbox replacement but the shared calendar and excellent web UI eventually became the killer app for our family. We ended up not really using any other part of Nextcloud.
Unfortunately, Nextcloud revamped the calendar UI to the point that it's actively painful to use.
There are _lots_ of open-source Dropbox-like solutions for file sharing, but if I could find a good shared calendar solution _with a decent web UI_, then I could ditch Nextcloud from my self-hosted stack.
by greggh on 2/21/25, 11:55 AM
by rglullis on 2/21/25, 11:29 AM
StarOffice/LibreOffice was open sourced 25 years ago. It is still maintained and developed to this day. It can run on any operating system you need, and it uses the same data formats that any "cloud solution" will use as well.
It can not be a matter of "it doesn't have online multi-writer collaboration tools", because if that was such a killer feature, there would be at least a handful of companies developing plugins to support this - or even developed in the project itself.
It can not be a matter of "data always available online", because you could solve this with a virtual online drive that can be browsed and/or synced with your work computer.
The funny thing to me is that mobile-first people prefer to have an app for each separate task, while PC-first people would rather have everything inside a browser window.
by jayemar on 2/21/25, 4:41 PM
This looks interesting and is a space in which I'm definitely interested, but if you're targeting simplicity, I didn't think focusing on the programming tools is the right way to pitch your product.
by plagiarist on 2/21/25, 1:06 PM
by mnutt on 2/21/25, 4:58 PM
by prmoustache on 2/21/25, 11:58 AM
Only the actual managed services could reasonably be called cloud computing when they are hosted in an elastic and scalable infra.
by jszymborski on 2/21/25, 3:58 PM
Another simple alternative to nextcloud is using syncthing with a server as a peer. If you want a web interface, you can point a web file manager like FileGator to the sync'd folder.