ownCloud Vs Nextcloud

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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[frankyvee]

I like how fair, balanced, and unbias you are. This adds a lot of credability to your video.

[fotocharlie]

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.

[PakkaponPhongtawee]

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.

[pieterrossouw]

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.

[benbabajide]

Excellent video! I was about moving my owncloud to a new server when I thought why not try out NextCloud. I know they are related somehow. Now that I have the info you shared, I've made up my mind to try NextCloud. Thanks.

[abhikumar]

I tested nextcloud in vm with ubuntu, after 1 month i installed on bare metal server with ubuntu. But now i am using CentOS for nextcloud core functionality in production environment with 60 users.

[johnofe]

I have been using NC for 2 years now and just changed to OC. There is a huge difference if you are planning to primarily use these to serve iPadOS clients. NC is totally broken while OC works almost flawlessly. The NC community is uninterested in mobile client development and focus mainly on desktop PC clients. Blatant bugs are reported on the NC community forums and all we get is crickets. Unrelated to these issues, NC has no idea how to handle previews for images, 10GB of images equals 20GB disk space used unless previews are nerfed. OC doesn’t suffer from this issue either. I deal with 1000’s of small low res images and to have 100MB of raw images and 4GB of resulting previews created for them under default settings is laughable. NC is excellent as a desktop and web based platform and outshines OC in this regards. OC is for iOS clients.

[ImbraWolf]

I like nextcloud better, since i started hosting my own services, i host it on my raspberrypi but i plan in getting a office pc for the server, but overall i like nextcloud even if i don't use all there services on nextcloud i still like it

[MinuteFlipDoc]

they both have docker containers! try both! hahah

[SystemErrorMessage]

after you set up your own cloud, you head for the next cloud to then set up your own cloud and repeat the cycle

[jfitzpatrick]

Thank you for clarifying the distingtions. I found this video quite informative.

[pacoreguenga]

Well explained and made me finally decide on nextcloud! New subscriber here!

[aviatorsandastronauts]

Great tutorial. I hope you're getting a check for wearing that jacket. Thanks for shooting and sharing.

[millenniumtree]

Looking for a cloud service to distribute a large number of PDFs to music players, and critically, it needs to run with a local router on a small device like a Raspberry Pi, so people can sync their folders anywhere we set up, with no internet access. Thanks for the comparison between the two. NextCloud looks like the clear winner here.

[jukatan]

Good informative video! I would say your recommendation is right. Not sure what prompted OC to switch away from PHP - bad move IMHO!

[teufeliano]

very clear and complete explanation, good job!

[JosephFallon]

Nice one, very interesting video. Thank you. What would you say least maintenance way of running Nextcloud is? Snap install?

[WiseNickVZW]

Do you have a video or guide on your home setup? Your setup sounds like what I'm trying to do. I want to backup my phones (iPhone and android) and computers (windows, Mac, and linux) preferably every night. I would also like to be able to view the files on my tvs or other devices.

[michaelotu]

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?

[Nikolay-d]

I don't know about OC, but NC is always working with the hard drive, even if there is no sync. In idle mode NC uses HDD all the time, but if you disable the service in ubuntu NC stops using HDD and goes to idle state. Constant and useless use of HDD reduces its lifetime and is unlikely to be favorable for SSD.