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File Browser vs Nextcloud (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by shiftymccool@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey all! I'm still in the somewhat early stages of setting up my home server. I have Nextcloud installed for file storage/management. However, realizing that it would be nice to have access to the entire storage drive for the server, I installed File Browser.

Now I'm having a hard time justifying having both. I have a handful of services that could be run as individual services (calDav, notes, news, etc... although, phonetrack seems to be hard to replace).

I've noticed lists that people have posted of the "must-have" services on their home servers have included both. My question is "why?" It seems like, at a basic level, they serve similar roles. If you remove the app-platform role from Nextcloud by separately hosting the individual apps, what benefit do you get from having both Nextcloud and File Browser?

I really like NextCloud, but i'm having a hard time justifying the resource usage if its functionality can be replaced by a handful of containers. Or, is that the reason to have it, so you don't have to do that?

Any opinions on the subject would be appreciated.

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[–] shiftymccool@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I got a minimum traccar instance running last night (no db, config, etc...) and it seemed to be working great. Later, I noticed battery usage on my android device was a bit higher than normal. Not thinking much about it, I went about my business. This morning I was still seeing higher than average battery usage. I checked the client logs and saw a ton of "failed to send" messages. I checked the server and the registration page came up. Apparently, my minimal setup failed to persist the data and, at some point, I redeployed my stack and lost everything.

My suspicion is that the repeated failures were causing the battery drain so I'm trying again with a full db setup but not having much luck so far. I'll check back in after I either succeed or give up.

The UI for traccar is way cleaner than phonetrack but if the battery usage doesn't compare, it's a no-go. Phonetrack has just been invisible and functional so it's got some big shoes to fill