Running opencloud - great nextcloud replacement - Byte Pursuits
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I’ve been running owncloud, then nextcloud for years. While it worked I was never very happy with it. Performance was always lackluster even for 1-2 users, features added are seemingly superfluous and was never something I wanted or cared about (groupware, AI assistant, talk features – don’t use, need or care). All I want is ... Read more

Hey friends. I finally fired nextcloud - and so should you.

edit: wow. reddit banned me for posting a link to my (completely unmonitezed, unproductized) blog in multiple r/selfhosted threads. I bet it’s related to this lemmy link

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 day ago

    You can absolutely use it without a reverse proxy. A proxy is just another fancy HTTP client that contacts the server on the original client’s behalf and forwards the response back to it, usually wrapped in HTTPS. A man in the middle that you trust.

    All you have to do is expose the desired port(s) to all addresses:

    # ...
  - ports:
    - 8080:8080

    …and obviously to set the URL environment variables to localhost or whatever address the server uses.