Set Up Your Own NextCloud Server

NEXTCLOUDPI

Download this preconfigured instance of NextCloud for Raspberry Pi, Debian Stretch, Dockers, and VMs from https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi.

THERE’S ONE MAJOR PROBLEM with cloud storage: Who’s in control of your data? Thankfully, NextCloud gives you the best of both worlds—all the functionality found in cloud services such as OneDrive and Google Drive, but crucially your data remains in your possession, distributed among all your devices, and held in your choice of central location, typically a USB drive or network attached storage.

NextCloud runs on a variety of hardware—natively on Linux-based machines, or through Dockers and VMs on other platforms. We’ve chosen to base this tutorial on NextCloudPi, a dedicated and preconfigured NextCloud instance, with most of the technical work of initial setup and configuration of databases done for you. We installed it on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ for the purposes of this tutorial, paired with a now-discontinued 320GB PiDrive for storage. Performance was a little sluggish—if you can afford it, a brand new Raspberry Pi 4 with at least 2GB of RAM should perform much better. We also successfully tested it on our QNAP TS-251+ NAS using Docker, and have managed—with some tweaking—to get it installed on a PC running Debian Stretch, too. Enough