How to provide a minimal cloud for large families ?

Published at Aug 20, 2025

#Open Source#Self-host#Nextcloud

Introduction

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Evaluate your needs but KISS

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Caprover for quick bootstrap

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Mail Server for app-family interaction

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Nextcloud is the goto self-hosted cloud

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Common maintenance commands

If you have acces to the server you can administer your dockerized Nextcloud instance and you might prefer logout the active user with the following command before proceeding:

docker exec -u www-data <nc-container> php occ maintenance:mode --off

Iterative improvement based on user needs

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