I am setting up my NAS right now, and I need some suggestions for apps that I can run on my NAS or self-host.

  • I have seen some online articles, but they are too confusing because they list too many apps for each category.

  • I want backup apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. (It would be great if they could back up automatically).

  • I want to sync my calendars and contacts.

  • I want to download media like TV shows and movies. (And music, too). “Of course, only legal obtained from the internet cough.”

  • I want apps that let me access my data from anywhere.

  • I saw this cool thing where you could use a Raspberry Pi to access your NAS bios from your PC.

Os - Unraid

  • pgetsos
    6•7 months ago

    Nextcloud is literally “Jack of all trades, master of none”. It tries to do EVERYTHING, and it fails to be even decent in most of these things…

    • @Gooey0210English
      6•7 months ago

      I actually like it, i’m using deck, cospend, share folders, manage some projects, send other people shares

      For me it feels perfect, I don’t need to manage different services and know them in depth

      Other people just need to create one account and we can do all the stuff by using our names, you know

      For me nextcloud “just works”

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 months ago

        I’m also loving Nextcloud for a simple way to do a bunch of simple things. Installing with AIO wasn’t so hard (though I plan to migrate to NixOS someday), and it introduces me to a bunch of things I can do (such as making links for shared folders with random people, no login required for them) without my having to learn a ton different specialised things.

        Most of what I want to do I feel in principle there should be a better way (e.g. syncthing plus a web-frontend file server) but there’s always a weak point somewhere.

        Especially that Nextcloud had decent apps for both Android and iPhone.

        True, it’s a bit slow, takes most of my low-budget VPS’s memory, and doesn’t always work the way I’d like etc. but it’s great for me for now.

        • @Gooey0210English
          1•7 months ago

          I’m already on nixos, so nextcloud is not a pain anymore

          I’m fully agree on all the points you mentioned

          I run nextcloud on a es i9 with so much ram I don’t remember how much exactly, 32 or 64

          P.s. I believe the future of selfhosted cloud is based on syncthing, has some e2e encryption, and vpn integrated

          • @[email protected]English
            1•7 months ago

            I believe the future of selfhosted cloud is based on syncthing

            We need some more volunteers to run relays :-)

            Ed: or maybe ipv6 will solve everything one day