Nextcloud

Avantages

solution cloud souveraine et open source permettant le stockage, le partage de fichiers, la collaboration et la communication sécurisée. Il offre une expérience fluide et personnalisable, avec des fonctionnalités comme OnlyOffice, messagerie, visioconférence et synchronisation multi-appareils. Son principal atout est la maîtrise des données, mais son déploiement et sa maintenance nécessitent des compétences techniques.

Inconvénients

moins de choix dans l'intégration native, nécessitent des compétences en auto hébergement. Quelques bugs aussi avec les MAJ.

Avantages

Fonctionne très bien, je suis un utilisateur et la facilité d'avoir accès au document de l'équipe est un plus

Inconvénients

J'aime moins le fait qu'on doit faire attention de ne pas fermer le logiciel quand on regarde un document, car si on fait le X pour fermer le document ça ferme le logiciel. Ce n'est pas long de le rouvrir mais juste tannant

Avantages

Pour le stockage de fichiers et de données.

Inconvénients

Rien à dire à part le coût de l'abonnement

Avantages

Dans les avantages, on peut indéniablement citer le fait que Nextcloud soit une solution auto hébergée. Cela nous permet d'avoir un contrôle total sur nos données, en plus de pouvoir nous passer de coûts relativement pour la location d'espaces de stockages.De plus, la modularité du logiciel permet une grande flexibilité quant à son utilisation.

Inconvénients

Nextcloud possède un impressionnant nombre de bug. Je n'ai pas connu une seule version fonctionnant correctement depuis que je l'utilise en 2016. De fois il s'agit de problèmes liés à une mauvaise configuration de mon serveur, mais souvent ce sont des bugs provenant du logiciel même. Par exemple, la version 26 vient de rendre les espaces de stockage externes tout simplement inutilisables. Impossible de créer de lien de partage, ou de déplacer des fichiers/dossiers. Pratique n'est-ce pas ?Le client de synchronisation bureau est une vraie plaie à utiliser, l'interface web est très lente (et peu attractive je trouve), la gestion de plusieurs fichiers n'est pas toujours possibles sur l'interface web (je parle d'actions)...Je peux encore trouver plein d'inconvénients que ne disposent pas les solutions propriétaires.

Avantages

Nextcloud peut être déployé sur un serveur et un réseau privé ce qui rend les données plus sécurisées.J'apprécie bien qu'il soit open source et gratuit donc accessible à tout le monde facilement.Il est accessible via le navigateur web et l'application locale (Notamment pour la synchronisation et le backup des fichiers).Un autre avantage est que le partage des fichiers est possible avec les membres de la même entreprise ou bien avec les membres externes (on peut modifier les restrictions en fonction des besoins).

Inconvénients

Interface est un peu ancienne, et le travail collaboratif sur ce nuage n'est pas très bien synchronisé en temps réel. En plus, ce n'est pas possible d'ajouter un mot de passe pour un fichier partagé.

Avantages

Le plus apprécié dans le logiciel Nextcloud est la facilité de collaberer avec le stockage S3. Ainsi, Nextcloud permet la création des portails de connextion pour les utilisateurs.

Inconvénients

Le moins apprécié dans le logiciel Nextcloud est que certains plugins ne fonctionnent pas comme prévu. Ainsi, parfois les mises à jour créent des problèmes pour la connexion.

Avantages

La simplicité d'utilisation, d'installation de la solution

Inconvénients

Rien de particulier, tout est très bien !

Avantages

La fiabilité de l'ensemble. La simplicité des mises à jour.

Inconvénients

Rien, il fait bien ce qu'on attend de lui.

Avantages

Permet des échanges en temps réel avec un serveur

Inconvénients

La configuration "client" est difficile à mettre en oeuvre et à appréhender

Avantages

I've been using Nextcloud since v11-12, but before that had been using ownCloud since v5. It's a brilliant way of sharing files across multiple devices and sharing files with others. I was looking for my own version of Dropbox and Nextcloud fits the bill, and some. Some of the more recent Apps really could make this a complete solution, with the Collarora/Onlyoffice integration, Decks, Circles, Passwords, Email, Talk, etc. And it's open source. Like I said at the start, why not?

Inconvénients

I'm not a fan of the new forum/support platform but am struggling to find something I least like about the software

Avantages

NextCloud is very easy to set up and allows a great amount of customization. There are a ton of apps available to add to your configuration so you can set it up just the way that works for you. You can integrate Nextcloud login with your own website using OAuth. The customization is almost endless so you can set it up just how you like it.

Inconvénients

The pricing can become complicated and quite expensive when using Nextcloud with some paid apps. Other than that I can't really complain about the functionality of the software, it has everything it should have.

Avantages

Easy to add new users
Easy to upload and download files
Possibility to read and edit documents also in the phone
Possibility to add blogg-pages for intranet with the PicoCMS app
Calendar app works very well
Sync with laptop and desktop using the desktop client

Inconvénients

The e-mail app is rudimentary
The coupling between Contacts and E-mail app is incomplete
Creating and editing documents and adding photos is possible in the phone but a bit slow
The risk for conflicting versions if using desktop client, but this may be soved in version 18 as you can locck the file while editing
You sometimes need to specifically check that the files are synced, but this also happens to me with other sync solutions (like Box Sync)
The calendar app cannot be "swiped" or "scrolled" to the next week or month in the webb-browser. But this works with other optional calendar apps.

Avantages

The core functionality, sharing files, is really easy to install and use. And there are tons of additional functionality to choose from (provided by Nextcloud itself and third party software developers).
One thing worked out to be particularly useful: the integration with the Nextcloud provided meeting software Talk (although it works only for small meetings out of the box. For larger ones additional, but still free, software is needed).

Inconvénients

There are really tons of third party apps to choose to install. And it is really tempting to add them. But this constitutes a weakness at the same time, because no one guarantees you that these apps will work with the next update of the software. And I've seen it in the past months that some apps I'd install stopped working with the next update.
This is no problem of Nextcloud itself. They do not force you to install any of the third party apps. My advice would be to install only apps that have been along a long time and provide regular updates.

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

- simple to setup, configure, update and use
- customizable - many apps and themes available
- well documented
- possible to connect with other services

Inconvénients

- many features you expect to work by default are only available after installing 3rd party extensions
- encryption can be difficult to setup
- some features can be configured only from command line

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

Clean and consistent interface with good integration due to lots of third party addons.

Inconvénients

The installation process is disconnected between the CLI, and the "autoconfig.php", the supported features in the latter are far more capable despite the development focus on the former.

Avantages

Next cloud is a better self-managed cloud storage alternative for small or independent businesses. It's quite easy to use and manage.I run a self-managed account on the oracle free tier ( with over 200 GB of SSD) and I haven't faced any issues with it so far. It offers a better storage capacity as compared to other cloud servers.The next cloud storage technologies help me to store and manage my business files and I'm very content with its quality of service and server download and upload speeds are very good.

Inconvénients

Even though for self-managed tiers there is no premium support, however, It's still very great (if you are comfortable with coding and all other techy stuff)...

Avantages

NC is Free and easy to use with my skillset. I just have lots of joy when it included a free mobile application that I can basically use personally and on the enterprise leve.

Inconvénients

NC version upgrade is not too easy going as per my experience. However, spawning another version and mounting the previous files is easy.

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

Zero up-front investment cost. Greater documentation.

Inconvénients

Not all extensions worked properly and even some featured ones had issues. Some ideas seem half-baked still and need time to mature and become mainstream if that is even the focus.

Avantages

Its an open source software with full of bussiness utilities.

Inconvénients

Need better support with group folders and more bug to fix

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

It was an easy PHP web app to setup that is fairly extensible. It has a large selection of plugins that let you add basically all functionality you’ll need to parallel something like DropBox Enterprise. I have only used the self-hosted version, so I can only speak to that, but so far, it has been fairly stable, running on an 8core 12GB VM with Ubuntu 18.04 (past 6 months) and Ubuntu 14.04 (for the past 3-4 years). Given that it’s self-hosted though, you’ll get no official support, except from the community forums which have been friendly and helpful. The devs are also fairly active there, so you’ll get good answers.

It maintains great integration with iOS and desktop devices (can’t speak for Android), and using it together with a SAML setup is quite a breeze. So far, it has scaled to about 150K small files and 1.5TB of storage. It’s built-in authentication system is also quite robust, with support for TOTP and FIDO 2FA via the plugin system.

It also maintains solid integration to Collabora Online and OnlyOffice, allowing real-time document editing with multiple users and guests, which has come in handy quite a few times. Great software overall!

Inconvénients

Can be a bit difficult to set up initially. You’ll need a solid understanding of SysAdmin basics to even get off the ground, since it’ll rely on you having a properly configured web server. You’ll also need to know how to properly secure both the installation, as well as the database Nextcloud runs on. A compromise to either of those points would cause a security issue.

Avantages

Nextcloud appeared from the vast ruins of ownCloud which I always liked, but always hassled with once there was an update. It was vital from the very beginning, it was more open, it was more stable - and everything you needed to get if up and running worked like a charm straight from the scratch. With each version there was not only an evolution, but a refinement of features, an open conversation with the community (something ownCloud really lacked of) and a visible progress. Besides, working and using Nextcloud is just wonderful.

Inconvénients

Nothing that would be worth mentioning - indeed there are no negative aspects regarding my use case and the use case of my customers. It would be nice to get a fully-featured IMAP-server integrated in Nextcloud, but this is a luxury issue. Besides, the company should take its time to grow and to keep the platform stable and maybe there will once be a Nextcloud-Talk app for macOS and Windows?

Avantages

First and foremost, I like the Transparency. I am relieved to know that my data is owned by MYSELF and my data doesn't travel across the advertisement companies to profit Tech Giants. Secondly, I love the UI elements of the software of how easy it is to get things done inside the applications, how few clicks it is to require to do such and such task, everything right on my face and all the useful applications you can install within the "app store" kinda thing to boost productive. Then, things like Collabora, Nextcloud Talk, News, Announcement Center is what bounds me within the software. I don't have to use different applications to communicate with my colleagues, don't need different application to sync my files, don't need different application to reed my atom feeds, etc. You know where I'm going. Nextcloud is the complete set of application. It has indeed replaced Dropbox, Google Drive, Zoom, Google RSS Reader, and tons of other software from my life.

Inconvénients

While I like most of the things around Nextcloud. I hope it gets better with UI/UX. Sometimes the UI can be very non-friendly, glitches here and there and not very sleek experience. But, overall I'm happy with what I have.

Avantages

Easy to setup and ease of use. Clients available on all plattforms (W10, OSX, iOS, Linux). Integratrion with Active Directory is quite essential for us. Easy to administrate. UNIX Platform. It is very robust!

Inconvénients

That there is no integration with MS-SharePoint or MS-o365. This is really neccessary in todays world, although I am not a MS fan at all, but for business purposes this is really essential!

Alternatives envisagées 

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Avantages

What I really like is how it will sync my photos from my phone to my cloud, which I can then have on my computer. I can take a picture, and then have it on my laptop or desktop.

It allows me to have my own set of personal notes on it, that are not scanned nor data mined. They are simple to use and allow me to jot down ideas and things to do.

I can sync my calendar to it, allowing me to schedule things on my computer or on my phone.

Personally, I like the Docker image that they have, as it allowed me to quickly set it up and get it working.

Inconvénients

As the software is self-hosted, sometimes it has given me trouble, but mainly because it's running on a very small computer (comparable to a Raspberry Pi). But it's been a few months since that's happened, and if I had an HA setup, that wouldn't be an issue.

Avantages

Extensibility. The open source foundations of the product helps us to customize and innovate on the product base.

Inconvénients

The available commercial pricing models should be more agile to compete with cloud scale EFSS solutions. If they could offer a pricing model to take this to consumer level (E.g. Dropbox alternative) with PAYG pricing this would be great.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Nextcloud