Whatever you choose, you don’t need to run both of these tools. Nextcloud does all these things but better. Owncloud still has the basics of file syncing, calendars, todo list, notes, etc. All the ‘new’ stuff is happening in Nextcloud. Owncloud has a lot of the same features and add-ons, just presented differently, but it’s clear that Owncloud is going in a different development direction. Owncloud Interface Example Owncloud has a lot of these features While the file-syncing interface is fine and the web app is fine, it doesn’t really do much beyond that.
#OWNCLOUD VS HOW TO#
Everything is intuitive, and it’s easy to figure out how to change things. The interface is nice to look at – and to work with. The things that do work, however, are slick. And I can only imagine what it would do to my server to constantly run an Office clone 24/7. I stopped trying because it just wasn’t worth the trouble. For example, they try to market it as an Office365 or gSuite alternative, but it’s incredibly hard to set up the open-source office programs they support. I spent way too much time trying to get basic things to work in Nextcloud. Even on my dedicated hardware that isn’t really taxed that much, Nextcloud was slow (as in the pages would take forever to load). You can create an internal company intranet with all the fixings in a few hours. Nextcloud started off as a clone of Owncloud and then diverged when it added more options and apps. Nextcloud is much easier to customise they give you a handy page where you can edit the colour, logo, background image, etc. It took me way too long to get a custom header and logo, and it still didn’t look quite right. You have to hack actual files which can be wiped with an update. With Owncloud, it’s hard to customise the look and feel. NextCloud Interface Example Nextcloud is Easier to Customise You see, a few years ago, the main developers of Owncloud forked the codebase and launched a new project called Nextcloud, which sought to make a self-hosted ‘office in a box.’ Owncloud is still actively developed as an open-source product, but the true innovation these days is with Nextcloud.īut which one should you choose? Which one is better? Here are some thoughts on Owncloud vs Nextcloud Owncloud has worked out all right for the specific thing I wanted to do with it. It needed to be simple – branded and ‘just work.’ And it did that, but this was a little more complicated, and there was much headbanging as it was hard to customise. It worked exactly like Dropbox, and I was able to cancel the service and save a few quid a month.Ī little while later, it became clear that my side-business would also need an Owncloud installation for sharing purchased files with customers. It was slick and synced all my files between my various computers, my mobile and the server. One of the things I was most excited about using my own dedicated server for was rolling my own Dropbox-like service for my own use.
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