ownCloud Vs Nextcloud

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Published 2021-03-10
ownCloud and Nextcloud are two of the most popular self-hosted enterprise file synchronisation and sharing platforms. Both are popular with people seeking a free, on-premises, or open source alternative to the likes of OneDrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
ownCloud and Nextcloud are very similar platforms, sharing a common origin and founder. If you want to build your own personal cloud, which one is best?

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Video timestamps:
0:00 - Reasons to Self-Host
3:41 - ownCloud & Nextcloud Similarities
4:19 - Nextcloud's History
6:01 - Differences Between ownCloud & Nextcloud
7:31 - Open Source Communities
8:52 - Support Options
10:31 - Closing Thoughts

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All Comments (21)
  • @frankyvee1
    I like how fair, balanced, and unbias you are. This adds a lot of credability to your video.
  • Thank you for explain. For me, OwnCloud - too few features. I need more. NextCloud - too much features. I hope my little NAS box won't crash.
  • @pacoreguenga
    Well explained and made me finally decide on nextcloud! New subscriber here!
  • I used the Nextcloud system. Storing files by date, tagging, user groups...etc As the task grew, the demand for resources became disproportionately high. Now I use Owncloud on the same server. It manages the resource much better.
  • Thank you for clarifying the distingtions. I found this video quite informative.
  • @teufeliano
    very clear and complete explanation, good job!
  • Great tutorial. I hope you're getting a check for wearing that jacket. Thanks for shooting and sharing.
  • I have a love-hate relationships with Nextcloud. It's like it's trying to run before it's walking properly. It wants to do all kinds of fancy things with Nextcloud Talk and Collabora but after using it for a year it's gotten so ridiculously slow. It's also running on a proper Ryzen homelab server with 64GB of memory - I pity anyone dealing with this slowdown on a Raspberry Pi or something. I want it to be good, it's just trying to be too much too early.
  • @jukatan100
    Good informative video! I would say your recommendation is right. Not sure what prompted OC to switch away from PHP - bad move IMHO!
  • @JosephFallon
    Nice one, very interesting video. Thank you. What would you say least maintenance way of running Nextcloud is? Snap install?
  • @lalpremi
    Thanks for sharing, have a great day 🙂
  • @michaelotu9723
    Thanks for the clarification. I wanted to learn System administration and I was told I should learn bash (I already watched several videos from youtube and I am about to read a book), I should ditch the cloud services and install the owncloud server. I wanted to learn about the owncloud server but I found your video. For this purpose, what would you recommend - OwnCloud, NextCloud or Either VM with Ubuntu Server or CentOS?