Post #2938189
2026-02-27 16:18 UTC
Obviously, everyone will recommend Nextcloud. And yes, it works.
But it is heavy and can feel slow.
I then moved to OwnCloud, the original project behind Nextcloud, which I found significantly faster. After that, I switched to OpenCloud, which is closely related to OwnCloud. It is less intuitive to set up, but it is extremely lightweight and very fast. That is the one I recommend.
Depending on your use case, there are plenty of other options as well, such as Seafile, Filerun, Filestash, Copyparty, and [others](https://alternativeto.net/software/nextcloud/?license=opensource).
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@ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 2026-02-27 17:25
> It is less intuitive to set up, but it is extremely lightweight and very fast. That is the one I recommend. I highly question the decision process to only include the lightweight and speed. There are much more important criterias to consider, like for example stability, maintainability, support etc. I do not need yet another service that gets abonded 1-2 years after launch or goes subscription only etc.