and is there any detailed video about how to host it using windows 10?

  • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    If you’re not familiar at all with systems administration, you may find it easier to run a selfhosting distro like Yunohost which has one-click install for many software like NextCloud.

    If you don’t need a lot of storage, renting/owning a server is going to be really cheap. NextCloud can run on very light resources if you don’t need it to scale to terabytes or dozens of users.

    Just be careful to think of backups! If you don’t backup your infrastructure, you may wake up one day with all your data gone in flames :)

  • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 years ago

    As already said, running it on windows is a) not a good idea and b) unnecessarily difficult. Hosted Linux servers are way cheaper anyways.

    You might want to specify what you want to do with your nextcloud instance, because server load can vary dramatically depending on use case.

    Easiest install is via snap, they have everything you may need builtin, just read their wiki.

    You need to:

    • Connect to your server vie ssh (your hosting provider should aupply you with the credentials)
    • install snap and then the nextcloud-snap
    • reach the setup page via ssh port forwarding
    • after the setup enable the http and https ports in your firewall
    • maybe setup letsencrypt

    Then you’re done, snap should even do automatic updates for you.

      • pinknoise@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 years ago

        I suggest you try it in a virtual machine first. (The letsencrypt part won’t work then) Look at what linux distribution your hosting provider uses, so you will be familiar with everything. You can instruct them to reset your VPS in case you fuck something up, but that might take some time, so discovering possible mistakes beforehand on a test systems is more convenient.