I’m seriously thinking about moving from Nextcloud AIO to OwnCloud Infinite Scale (OCIS), and I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Here’s why I’m considering the switch:
I need software that’s stable and doesn’t break after every update.
Minimal maintenance is a priority for me.
A solution that works out of the box with minimal setup complexity.
Support for Docker Compose deployment.
Support for S3 storage as the primary storage backend.
What I like about OCIS:
It’s written in Go (which I prefer over PHP).
It doesn’t require a database, simplifying setup and maintenance. (Not sure about it)
However, I’m still hesitant due to:
The limited documentation for OCIS.
Concerns about whether it’s as open-source friendly as Nextcloud.
While I’ve been using Nextcloud Talk, I find it slow and unstable, so I’m planning to transition to XMPP. That said, Nextcloud itself has been challenging to maintain, and I’m looking for something faster and more reliable.
For those who have experience with OCIS, would you recommend switching, or should I stick with Nextcloud despite its issues?
Assuming you just want file sync and storage, if you can live without External Storage (having another SFTP/WebDAV/whatever backend), then I think oCIS is great for you. It also expect an OIDC auth provider by default - this guide helped me through. Note that you have to configure the S3 storage driver in oCIS and properly backup your buckets and metadata.
For Talk you can setup an internal Matrix and TURN server too. I recommend conduwuit if you want something lightweight, or Synapse (quite heavy) if you need OIDC integration.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !selfhosted@lemmy.world
A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.
Rules:
Be civil: we’re here to support and learn from one another. Insults won’t be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.
No spam posting.
Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it’s not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.
Don’t duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.
Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).
No trolling.
Resources:
selfh.st Newsletter and index of selfhosted software and apps
Assuming you just want file sync and storage, if you can live without External Storage (having another SFTP/WebDAV/whatever backend), then I think oCIS is great for you. It also expect an OIDC auth provider by default - this guide helped me through. Note that you have to configure the S3 storage driver in oCIS and properly backup your buckets and metadata.
For Talk you can setup an internal Matrix and TURN server too. I recommend conduwuit if you want something lightweight, or Synapse (quite heavy) if you need OIDC integration.
Not sure what you mean by expects oauth.
I’ve been testing it and it works very well so far in my tests with just a normal user name and password to login.
I’ve actually been meaning to work on getting oauth connected to my authentik but haven’t gotten around to it yet
So far the server seems very solid and the clients for android and windows also seem very good.
My bad, I meant the recommended deployment is to bring your own auth provider, but normal username/password is fine too. Glad it works!