Hello, so I just downloaded the most recent NextCloud .zip file along with the MacOS installer. Once I got to the Setup Wizard and it asked for my server address, and I did some research, I realized I need to have my own cloud in place first. I know this makes sense, but even though I’ve already dec…

What are your requirements? Do you have hardware to run it on, or would you use a VPS? Maybe you can try downloading the Nextcloud image , and try getting that to work first.

I’d prefer hardware to run it on because I don’t want to have to pay for a VPS, but it sounds like that also consumes a lot of bandwidth/electricity and can’t be used on a personal computer?

For a start, it can even run on a Raspberry Pi, maybe with an external HDD. Why should it not run on a PC? But you will need some DDNS to access the cloud from other places. To get started and get some experience, I would start with the home based installation. But also I think some Linux knowledge …

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JasonBayton April 26, 2018, 9:50pm 5

I have a pretty good guide here:

https://bayton.org/docs/nextcloud/installing-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-16-04-lts-with-redis-apcu-ssl-apache/

And failing that, there are more guides listed here:

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