[ecf]

You won’t regret setting it up. I was hesitant at first as well but three years later with zero-downtime and 100% auto-update success I can honestly say I’ve spent less than 30 minutes administering it.

Currently have it running on DO with daily droplet snapshots and it’s a nice reassurance that wherever happens, I can get back to a working state and never lose any data.

[Toutouxc]

The prices of block storage on DO are pretty steep, I'm seeing $50 a month for 500 GB..? Am I missing something?

[benhurmarcel]

There are cheap Nextcloud instance available elsewhere, such as Hetzner.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

[utucuro]

So, I've been curious about nextcloud for a good while, does Hetzner keep the version of NextCloud up-to-date? Which functionality is included? I'm also looking at Tab.digital from the Nextcloud hosting partners list and they seem to offer a lot of functionality at the private cloud tier that is roughly the same price as the NX20 tier at Hetzner with less storage. I do not need a lot of storage, but having the ability to make extensive use of Nextcloud integrations would be nice, which is not clear from Hetzner's comparison chart.

[benhurmarcel]

Yes, they take care of the maintenance and updates. You get an instance with a specific url, and an admin account in which you can activate/deactivate modules ("apps") and manage user accounts.

As far as I can tell you can get the same features as if you managed your own instance.

[ecf]

My storage requirements are low and I’m currently using the 25gb or so of space that comes with the droplet. Unfortunately I can’t comment much on a Nextcloud setup with block storage.