NextCloud | Autoize

NextCloud is best known as an open source cloud storage server, but did you know it also offers apps such as NextCloud Calendar, Contacts, and Mail as a complete groupware solution? The Calendar and Contacts apps are CalDAV and CardDAV…

Autoize Implements NextCloud for Healthcare / Senior Care Organization

Case Study

File Sync & Share, NextCloud, Online Office Suite

The team at Autoize was very knowledgeable and professional while helping us deploy an enterprise Nextcloud setup. They were helpful in answering our questions through the process and their turnaround time was quick. Kent, Health Systems Consultant The Challenge A…

Protecting NextCloud behind CloudFlare Firewall and Anti-DDoS

Open Source Apps

CloudFlare, Cybersecurity, NextCloud

Get NextCloud, Installed on Your Server For convenience, most NextCloud instances are running on a web server exposed to the Internet, and its myriad of cybercriminals and security threats. Even if your NextCloud server is properly hardened and all your…

Integrating ONLYOFFICE Community Edition with NextCloud using Docker

Open Source Apps

NextCloud, Online Office Suite, ONLYOFFICE

Get ONLYOFFICE, Installed on Your Server NextCloud is unquestionably the leading open-source file sync & share app on the marketplace, but despite the introduction of NextCloud Text, a simple, collaborative note-taking app, the suite doesn’t officially ship with a comprehensive…

Implementing S3 Compatible Primary Storage for NextCloud

Open Source Apps

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

Get NextCloud, Installed on Your Server NextCloud, an open source cloud storage solution, supports using S3 compatible object storage not only as external storage, but also as the primary (internal) storage for your NextCloud deployment. First, why is it “S3…

Storage VPS Options for NextCloud Deployment

Open Source Apps

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

Get NextCloud, Installed on Your Server Most virtual private servers in modern clouds use solid state drives, usually configured in RAID 10 or RAID 50 for redundancy (ability to tolerate X of Y failures with no data loss) combined with…

Production-Ready Cloud Storage Infrastructure with NextCloud

Open Source Apps

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

NextCloud is the most well known alternative to Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, or Google Drive for individuals & organizations who prefer to control their own cloud storage infrastructure. Whether hosting data on-premises on physical machines at your own office/datacenter, or on…

NextCloud vs Subscription-Based Cloud Storage Services

Open Source Apps

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

Cloud storage, also known as file sync & share, has become as important as email for collaboration in today’s workplace. Digitally-native employees demand a better solution than sending attachments back and forth, a time-consuming process that can lead to conflicting…

Backup NextCloud to Amazon S3 or BackBlaze B2

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

When you host your own NextCloud instance, you are responsible for backing up your data, ideally following the 3-2-1 rule. The 3-2-1 rule states that you should always have three copies of your data, two copies locally which are on…

Tuning NextCloud for Optimal Performance

Open Source Apps

Cloud Storage, File Sync & Share, NextCloud

Depending on the number of users, NextCloud can be installed on hardware as lightweight as a Raspberry Pi, or scaled out to a cluster of web servers, MySQL and Redis database servers and NFS storage nodes. Most organizations’ needs will…