After my private Gmail was leaked somewhere, I’ve started to receive an enormous amount of spam that came through into my inbox, which made me switch to Proton and a self-hosted SimpleLogin setup.
So I decided, I might as well dirch Google entirely, for private and work-related stuff.
While Proton already covers Mail and Calendar, I’m in search of alternatives for the following services to replace.
- Meet: I like the idea of starting a quick meeting by simply sending a link to a customer, who can join instantly. What would be an equivalent software to do that? I tried Mattermost, but it seems more like a Slack alternative, with invites, etc. and is overkill for my case. Revolt chat looks like a Discord alternative.
- Drive: In short, If possible, I’d prefer one consolidated place to access and edit files. Docs, Excel, PDFs, pictures, videos, etc… Is Nextcloud really the only option here, with the corresponding plugins for onlyoffice and memories (photos)? I tried running thst on an intel nuc, and it’s slow as hell.
Yeah… NC is really bad. I like the idea of the project, but the stack they chose to write it in, PHP, is just not suitable for such tasks
I think nextcloud suffers more from carrying along legacy code rather than blaming it on php. There’s tons of stuff written in php that performs well.
It’s definitely not the right tool for every job, but it’s also not the wrong tool for every job. Which goes for most programming languages. I’ve seen it work fine on high traffic environments. It also carries a legacy reputation from php 5 and before. I haven’t kept up with it much in the last few years though.
Which nextcloud tasks do you think php is unsuited for? (Genuine question)
I mentioned it in another topic regarding kbin, which is also written in PHP.
If you run a node/go/rust server and you hit the endpoint
/hellowhich returns a simple “hello world”, they will just return that. PHP however, has to initialize and execute the whole framework stuff, before returning a simple “hello world”.So there’s definitely some overhead, which to some degree can be limited by using caching like redis, etc.