🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 182 (new software edition!) ☁️​

Good morning Fedi friends!

This #GoToSocial account is officially back to posting about... self-hosting from the POV of a newbie / non-dev.

This morning I hit a new little milestone: I FINALLY installed #NextCloud on my VPS (thank you #YunoHost).

I'm getting ready to share short clips of my Fedi promo video (that anybody could use / upload on their own accounts - esp. Big Tech ones, if they're so inclined) and I needed a solution to let people download files. NextCloud is perfect for the task - and something I had looked forward to installing for a looooong time.

I'll share more details soon, but so far I'm excited to finally use it.

Wishing everyone a great day! 🌞​

#FOSS #MySoCalledSudoLife

OMG. Urgent update for your Nextcloud servers is necessary ... :-(

#nextcloud #security #bug #permissions #update

"It would fail to detect read only files and it would try to download files without the download permission."
And the fix is slooooow... they say.

https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/8349

Why, @nextcloud ?

https://github.com/nextcloud/vm/blob/main/nextcloud_install_production.sh#L7
#IPv6 #Nextcloud #Selfhosted

Alt...

A GitHub repo screenshot from nextcloud/vm script, where the line 7 says "prefer the obsolete Internet Protocol"

I’ve once again started the process of installing and setting up Nextcloud on one of my servers. It occurs to me that my Nextcloud instances always die a slow death. Something about that piece of software, I think, sort of just falls apart over time. This time I’m attempting to future proof it a little bit more than the previous times, but honestly I fully expect it to go about the same as usual. Then again, historically I have installed all kinds of plugins (or apps) and was running it on fairly low powered hardware. Setting it up on some decently powerful hardware on this go around though. I’ll also try to be more conservative with the app installs as well.

I might actually set up two separate instances and federate them together. Perhaps if I maintain multiple servers they’ll survive a bit longer? Or I’ll just be creating twice the amount of tinkering and maintenance for myself.

#SelfHosting #Nextcloud #Admin