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 :)

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.

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