My condolences! Copying the data around may be reasonably straightforward if you can get it out of the snap (it’s just a directory, after all), but I have no idea how the database is setup for it. Good luck nevertheless!

I’d hope for the exact same performance with Docker (or KVM) as on a baremetal host, unless you’re doing userspace networking for ultra-low latency Nextcloud :D (and even that I suppose you could PCI-passthrough the network card?)

No worries :) Let me rephrase the question though - what installation method would you be using if you could?

So far I’m reasonably happy with a baremetal installation, but considering moving it into some kind of VM.

Not using Nextcloud in snap and not sure where I said I was using it inside snap? What installation method are you using at the moment?

I have nextcloud running just fine (with Apache) on a non-443 port. What issue are you seeing exactly? Once your webserver is listening on your port of choice, Nextcloud will show an “untrusted domain” warning if the domain/port have not been set in config.php properly. After that is done, it works perfectly for me.

Previous release had PHP 7.4, new one has 8.2. Nextcloud 24 supports 7.2 - 8.0, 25 supports 7.2 - 8.1 and 26 supports 8.0 - 8.2, which is a bit inconvenient.

To upgrade, I first¹ upgraded Nextcloud to 25, then PHP to 8.2, removed the versioncheck in Nextcloud to accept PHP 8.2 and then upgraded to Nextcloud 26.

Otherwise very smooth - even the usrmerge was absolutely event-free.

¹) of course what I actually did first was upgrade Debian/PHP without checking beforehand and then installing PHP 7.4 from the previous release again.