Cloudreve: Why I’m Not Going Back to Nextcloud ☁️For a long time, Nextcloud was my go-to self-hosted storage.
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Cloudreve: Why I’m Not Going Back to Nextcloud
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For a long time, Nextcloud was my go-to self-hosted storage. It’s a powerful "all-in-one" suite, but let’s be honest: it’s a heavy monolith. The performance was average at best, and the setup complexity was... well, "medium-rare."
Then I discovered Cloudreve, and it was a breath of fresh air for my home lab.
The Architecture:
Instead of local storage, I have a TrueNAS share mounted on the host OS, which is then passed through to the container. This setup allows me to keep my data management on the NAS while using Cloudreve as a fast, modern frontend.
The Cloudreve Advantage:
- Efficiency: Written in Go, it’s incredibly lightweight. It feels snappier than any PHP-based solution I've tried.
- Storage Flexibility: It handles my 4TB TrueNAS mount and S3 buckets flawlessly.
- Smart Sharing: The UI for sharing is superior — you can easily set passwords, download limits, or expiration timers.
- WebDAV: Works perfectly when you need to mount your cloud as a local network drive.
The "Lean" Infrastructure (Current Stats):
Running via docker-compose, and according to dockhand, the resource footprint is impressively low:
- Backend: ~60MB RAM
- Database: ~27MB RAM
- Redis: ~6MB RAM
If you don't need a massive suite with built-in office editors and calendars, Cloudreve is the perfect minimalist alternative. It’s fast, modern, and the free version is more than enough for a solid personal cloud.
#selfhosted #cloudreve #nextcloud #TrueNAS #homelab #devops #opensource #cloudstorage -
Cloudreve: Why I’m Not Going Back to Nextcloud️
For a long time, Nextcloud was my go-to self-hosted storage. It’s a powerful "all-in-one" suite, but let’s be honest: it’s a heavy monolith. The performance was average at best, and the setup complexity was... well, "medium-rare."
Then I discovered Cloudreve, and it was a breath of fresh air for my home lab.
The Architecture:
Instead of local storage, I have a TrueNAS share mounted on the host OS, which is then passed through to the container. This setup allows me to keep my data management on the NAS while using Cloudreve as a fast, modern frontend.
The Cloudreve Advantage:
- Efficiency: Written in Go, it’s incredibly lightweight. It feels snappier than any PHP-based solution I've tried.
- Storage Flexibility: It handles my 4TB TrueNAS mount and S3 buckets flawlessly.
- Smart Sharing: The UI for sharing is superior — you can easily set passwords, download limits, or expiration timers.
- WebDAV: Works perfectly when you need to mount your cloud as a local network drive.
The "Lean" Infrastructure (Current Stats):
Running via docker-compose, and according to dockhand, the resource footprint is impressively low:
- Backend: ~60MB RAM
- Database: ~27MB RAM
- Redis: ~6MB RAM
If you don't need a massive suite with built-in office editors and calendars, Cloudreve is the perfect minimalist alternative. It’s fast, modern, and the free version is more than enough for a solid personal cloud.
#selfhosted #cloudreve #nextcloud #TrueNAS #homelab #devops #opensource #cloudstorage@dannyhayes It looks nice! Though it deserves to be said that if you need pure file storage there are a lot of lighter solutions than Nextcloud; My personal favorite is Seafile as it handles deduplication and versioning internally really well.
But I personally still host Nextcloud besides it because I like having a calendar, kanban boards (with calendar integration), Email client, Forms, Maps that show me where my photoes were made, plugins like Recognize that automatically tag my photos, etc.
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@dannyhayes It looks nice! Though it deserves to be said that if you need pure file storage there are a lot of lighter solutions than Nextcloud; My personal favorite is Seafile as it handles deduplication and versioning internally really well.
But I personally still host Nextcloud besides it because I like having a calendar, kanban boards (with calendar integration), Email client, Forms, Maps that show me where my photoes were made, plugins like Recognize that automatically tag my photos, etc.
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz Totally agree. Nextcloud is definitely a "Swiss Army knife". I actually used to rely on its Mail client and even hooked up my own OnlyOffice instance for web-based document editing.
There are plenty of alternatives out there, but I settled on Cloudreve for now. That said, I'm planning to benchmark other solutions once I have some downtime. -
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Cloudreve: Why I’m Not Going Back to Nextcloud️
For a long time, Nextcloud was my go-to self-hosted storage. It’s a powerful "all-in-one" suite, but let’s be honest: it’s a heavy monolith. The performance was average at best, and the setup complexity was... well, "medium-rare."
Then I discovered Cloudreve, and it was a breath of fresh air for my home lab.
The Architecture:
Instead of local storage, I have a TrueNAS share mounted on the host OS, which is then passed through to the container. This setup allows me to keep my data management on the NAS while using Cloudreve as a fast, modern frontend.
The Cloudreve Advantage:
- Efficiency: Written in Go, it’s incredibly lightweight. It feels snappier than any PHP-based solution I've tried.
- Storage Flexibility: It handles my 4TB TrueNAS mount and S3 buckets flawlessly.
- Smart Sharing: The UI for sharing is superior — you can easily set passwords, download limits, or expiration timers.
- WebDAV: Works perfectly when you need to mount your cloud as a local network drive.
The "Lean" Infrastructure (Current Stats):
Running via docker-compose, and according to dockhand, the resource footprint is impressively low:
- Backend: ~60MB RAM
- Database: ~27MB RAM
- Redis: ~6MB RAM
If you don't need a massive suite with built-in office editors and calendars, Cloudreve is the perfect minimalist alternative. It’s fast, modern, and the free version is more than enough for a solid personal cloud.
#selfhosted #cloudreve #nextcloud #TrueNAS #homelab #devops #opensource #cloudstorage@dannyhayes
I would try OpenCloud -
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I would try OpenCloud@thomas@friendica.tomforge.de Thanks for the heads-up! I’ve seen OpenCloud mentioned a few times. Adding it to my "to-test" backlog for when I finally have some breathing room. Right now, Cloudreve is doing the heavy lifting, but I’m always down to benchmark a leaner alternative.
