So I want to build a home server to use as a media server, and to back up my photos etc.

I am also currently doing an online course, and happen to spend some time at work as well as at home working on it. I don’t like using Google where I can help it, but I find google docs really useful. So I’m wondering if there’s an open source application that works essentially the same, but I could run off my own server? It would have to be web-based as I use Windows at work and can’t install new programs :/

edit: Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I’ve got quite a few leads to follow now, it should be fun!

  • WeAreAllOne@lemm.ee
    9·
    10 months ago

    You might also wanna check yunohost.org . It’s a well organized self hosting platform where you can install with few clicks and has huge amount of Foss apps, including office and media ones and Nextcloud that others suggested.

  • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml
    81·
    10 months ago

    Seafile w/Collabora

    I adore Seafile and this looks like a great option. I haven’t been able to get it going on my instance yet, but I’m still learning all of this self hosting and FOSS stuff.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    7·
    10 months ago

    After a lot of searching (granted, years ago) I landed on

    Nextcloud with only office.

    Nextcloud is pretty awesome. Open source, well supported, new versions like once or twice a year, aetric shittonne of plugins, its awesome.

    Onlyoffice feels a lot like Microsoft office, but is online open source, and allows multi user editing, which was always a bit of a pain point with colabora.

    • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.oneEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      Nextcloud needs a heaping helping of a disclaimer before anyone installs it.

      Use the Docker or Podman images, they’ll include most things a lot of first time users leave out that render Nextcloud buggy and inconsistent. It includes a cache, and about half of the security issues preconfigured out of the box.

      Installing it native from a guide with zero explanation beyond “welp, there’s the start page” as the final step really doesn’t do much for people and there’s a lot of guides out there like that for Nextcloud.

      • Engywuck@lemm.ee
        31·
        10 months ago

        Even with Docker, my feeling is that BC is something extremely fragile andd one has to be quite careful when updating it, for instance.

        • laenurd@lemmy.lemist.de
          2·
          10 months ago

          I’ve been using Nextcloud docker for quite some time, updated it countless times, have never had any problems whatsoever.

          • Engywuck@lemm.ee
            11·
            10 months ago

            Mine crapped out at first minor update, lol. Maybe just bad luck.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 months ago

          I hope to hell you don’t try to use the update button inside NC when running a docker image. The web updater is trash in any case, but in a docker that would be a real fuckup.

          You update docker with a docker pull and I’ve never had it fail. It just quietly upgrades the database and goes along it’s merry way.

          • Engywuck@lemm.ee
            11·
            10 months ago

            Nope, I updated with docker-compost stop/pull/up -d and suddenly everything was gone. Luckily I had a local copy of my files. Looks like updating trashed the volume I had mapped to my SSD.

  • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    10 months ago

    I’m using Onlyoffice and it works really well. Although I use it with kDrive from Infomaniak, I’m almost sure you can run it on your own server.

    In fact I managed to ditch Google for everything but I can’t find a good replacement for Google photos which I’m not using anymore.

  • ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    10 months ago

    I just use syncthing and set up the appropriate send /receive permissions for each folder

    When I want to access those files remotely, I just sftp / ssh into the server. (Someone more knowledgeble than me can help you with that part, I just install Tailscale on my devices for remote ssh)

    sure it may not be elegant, but is pretty easy to maintain in the long run (see complaints about updating / setting up nextcloud in this thread)

    maybe this will help with setup. Note he is doing bidirectional sync, but one way sync works too:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBVTedUWbfg

    edit: forgot to mention, this is cross platform across Mac, Windows, Android, and Linux. Not sure about iOS