For anyone hosting their own files with Nextcloud: on a home server, a NAS or a rented VPS. These are the guides that go with our YouTube videos, each one tested on a real install. If Nextcloud feels like more than you need, OpenCloud is the leaner alternative, and the comparison below covers when it makes sense.
What Nextcloud gives you on a fresh install, and whether the leaner OpenCloud suits you better.
Nextcloud's sharing beats clouds that charge for it — passwords, expiry dates and download limits on links, all free. But a fresh install stores your files unencrypted, even switched on the server holds the keys, and th…
Nextcloud is a whole workspace you build up with apps; OpenCloud is file sharing done lean — one program, no database, stricter defaults. Pick Nextcloud for calendar, calls and office alongside your files, or for end-to…
Turning a bare install into something you and your family will actually use.
Nextcloud Office is two pieces, the connector app you pick in Nextcloud and a document server you run beside it. Install the connector from its own row, start the server in Docker, connect it by an address Nextcloud can…
External storage ships with Nextcloud but switched off. Enable it, add your drive as Local storage at the path the server (on Docker, the container) sees, and give that folder to the web server user, because "Connected"…
Keycloak holds the accounts and checks every password; Nextcloud stops asking and trusts it. Four steps — a realm and a client in Keycloak, the OpenID Connect user backend app in Nextcloud, a user, and the first login.
On Nextcloud 35 the authenticator option is already built in. Make app passwords for any app that signs in with your password, turn on the authenticator in your security settings, save the backup codes somewhere other t…
The errors everyone hits, and the upkeep that keeps your data safe.
A Nextcloud backup is the config folder, the data folder and the database, copied together with the server in maintenance mode. Nextcloud's Backup app cannot be installed on the current release, so on Nextcloud 34 the b…
Nextcloud only answers to the addresses on its trusted_domains list, and localhost always works, which is why the error shows up the first time you use another device. Add the exact address you type with occ config:syst…
Self-hosting gives you full control, and with it the updates, the backups and the 2 a.m. fixes. If what you mainly want is files nobody else can read, a zero-knowledge provider gets you most of the way with none of the upkeep. Our zero-knowledge cloud storage data lists which providers encrypt so they cannot see your files, and the compare tool puts their plans and prices side by side.