I recognize this will vary depending on how much you self-host, so I’m curious about the range of experiences from the few self-hosted things to the many self-hosted things.

Also how might you compare it to other maintenance of your other online systems (e.g. personal computer/phone/etc.)?

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    After my Nextcloud server just killed itself from an update and I ditched that junk software, nearly zero maintenance.

    I have

    • autoupdates on.
    • daily borgbackups to hetzner storage box.
    • auto snapshots of the servers and hetzer.
    • cloud-init scripts ready for any of the servers.
    • Xpipe for management
    • keepass as a backup for all the ssh keys and password

    And I have never used any of those … it just runs and keeps running.

    I am selfhosting

    • a website
    • a booking service for me
    • caldav server
    • forgejo
    • opengist
    • jitsi

    I need to setup some file sharing thing (Nextcloud replacement) but I am not sure what. My usecase is mainly 1) Archiving junk 2) syncing files between three devices 3) streaming my music collection

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      I moved form next cloud to seafile. The file sync is so much better than next cloud and own cloud.

      It has a normal windows client and also a mount type client (seadrive) which is also amazing for large libraries.

      I have mine setup with oAuth via Authentik and it works super well.

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        I actually moved from seafile to nextcloud, because when I have two PCs running simultaneously it would constantly have sync errors and required manually resolving them all the time. Sadly nextcloud wasn’t really better. But I am now looking for solutions that can avoid file conflicts with two simultaneous clients.

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          6 months ago

          Are you changing the same files at the same time?

          I have multiple computers syncing into the same library all the time without issue.

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            Are you changing the same files at the same time?

            Rarely. But there is some offline laptop use compounded with slow sync times. (I was running it on a raspi with external usb hdd enclosure)

            Either way, I’d like something less fragile. I’ll test seafile again sometime, thanks.