Complete Layman Looking for Help

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Hello all,

I am in the process of de-googling and looking to find a secure, private but also convenient cloud/calendar/collaboration set-up for my family and medium sized company that I own.

I found NextCloud a few days ago and it looks like something that would be perfect for me.

I have a few issues that I was hoping some people from the community can assist me with.

  1. Are the providers that host NextCloud safe and 100% secure/private?

  2. I am leaning more toward storing my server at home or office so I have full control. However I am illiterate when it comes to linux and this level of computing and do not have the time to learn everything that I don’t understand when viewing the installation manual. Does anybody have a very simple step by step guide for installation for someone who understands nothing about Linux?

  3. Due to #2 above, I am considering purchasing an already set up device containing NextCloud. Are these safe in regards to security and privacy? Are there any backdoors that are installed possibly during set-up? Are these easy to use for a layman like myself?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Tony

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Hi Tony,
welcome to the Nextcloud Community.

There are Angels and Devils. Nextcloud is totally free and can be hosted by everyone.
So the answer for 100% security is a clear NO!

The guide depends on some things like the used operating system, your hardware, … so you have to think about your needs.
There are some guides in the how-to section of this board:

The following site with some pre-configured devices may help you with this:

There is no 100% security. The devices and their software also need to be maintained.

I never used these pre-build systems, so I don’t know. - It should work out of the box.