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"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud"

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…

And sorry for repeating myself, but the path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought.

My self-hosted #NextCloud has fully replaced WeTransfer, Google Drive and Dropbox for me... and it's only the tip of the iceberg.

I hope this visual guide will help fellow newbies.

#SelfHosting #YunoHost #MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS #blog #resist


A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 3: Let’s install NextCloud

A step-by-step visual guide for self-hosting newbies that shows off how to install NextCloud via the YunoHost system
Elena Rossini
#nextcloud #foss #selfhosting #blog #YunoHost #resist #mysocalledsudolife
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Jacques Smuts
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have you tried out immich on there?
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@JacquesSmuts not yet, but I plan on doing so soon... it's just that I prefer to keep my photos offline (backed up 4x on different drives)
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Timelime
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Timelime
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with a VPS, do you worry you don't fully own your data since it lives on someone else's servers?
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@TimeLime great question.

I think a VPS is a good solution for a newbie, so that they don't expose a home server to the internet.

Then as people become more confident in self-hosting - and more proficient with security - of course I would recommend hosting services on servers they fully control

@Timelime
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thanks for the guide. Can you tell me how well Nextcloud Talk performs? I have a Nextcloud AIO install which automatically sets up the STUN & TURN servers for optimising the performance for the Talk app. Does the Nextcloud app in YunoHost do the same?
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@MarkJones thanks for the question Mark. I'm sure you can add it from their apps section but I personally do not use it
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Phil
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This series is fantastic. Even as an experienced professional programmer, I still found all three posts helpful and informative. Thank you!
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Malka Beth
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if I can't trust a storage system without a backup storage system, then there's no point in using the claimed solution of a storage system to begin with. This is why I moved away from Google initially, to avoid cloud storage systems, none of which I've seen are secure & reliable.
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@BrahmaBelarusian I plan to discuss backups and security in the next post. I have a solid backup system in place both on the server and offline... of course setting up and running self-hosted services is important but so is maintenance
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Malka Beth
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You're skipping my point entirely. A main purpose to me of selfhosting is to have a system for keeping sensitive documents safe & accessible to me
(like medical records which are ridiculously hard for me to get & even harder for me to organize as there's now so many pages of them, with medical centers continually failing in this realm in terms of actually letting me see my own records, hence my paper copies), so if the system I use requires an electronic backup then it's a pointless endeavor to begin with.
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Yasuke
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Could you explain why you chose to install your apps on a subdomain rather than on the main domain?
Thanks for your clear and helpful explanations—I’ve been happily self-hosting for a month now! :)
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@Yasuke great question! I find it practical to add subdomains for each app I install… like I have photos.elenarossini.com for my Pixelfed… videos.elenarossini.com for my PeerTube… etc. but I did use a top level domain for GoToSocial and Friendica, in order to have shorter fedi usernames… if it makes sense?
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Timelime
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Should Yunohost go on it's own subdomain? (yuno.mydomain.tld)
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@TimeLime no need.

I have my YunoHost installation on domain 1... but then I added subdomains from other TLDs I own too.

For example, elenarossini.com (Wordpress site) is NOT part of my YunoHost installation, but I still added to YH photo.elenarossini.com for my Pixelfed and videos.elenarossini.com for my PeerTube.

The power of DNS 😅

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Hello World 🌏

Thank you, your guide (and sudo series) inspired and now showed how to setup Nextcloud and then GoToSocial, in just one evening 🌞

It feels nice - two steps toward greater digital autonomy with #FOSS software made by the community for the community ❤️

Thank you and @yunohost and #Nextcloud and @gotosocial and #Debian and...

#nextcloud #foss #Debian @GoToSocial @YunoHost
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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@sunny hellooooo there! Your message made me SO HAPPY! I hope you'll enjoy #GoToSocial and #NextCloud. And yay to self-hosting, it's a really empowering feeling, isn't it? 😊

@yunohost @gotosocial

#nextcloud #gotosocial @GoToSocial @YunoHost @sunny
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Hi Elena! I tried this today (up through installing nextcloud) I am pretty much up and running. Even though some things didn't go 100% how the guide said they would (Hetzner now charges for snapshots, DNS is weird, etc.,) your guide gave me the confidence to try! And build the airplane as I fly :D

Next step for me: add users to YunoHost and get them set up on Nextcloud!

Future step: figure out backups....

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Elena Rossini ⁂
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@semitones amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 thanks for letting me know 😊 and keep me posted on the next steps
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Semitones
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something I never even thought of -- everything is fine with Firefox, but Chrome scared my dad with a "dangerous deceptive website" warning. Safebrowsing... I looked into it and seems that there is nothing for me to do except request that Google take my website off the list.
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