Is a remote install on shared hosting viable?

[virgosystems]

Guessing root access is a requirement regardless, but I’m trying to decide if I absolutely have to deal with vps at this stage. My initial traffic is going to be so low that I might just set up a Pi.

Thanks so much

Joe

[mritzmann]

@virgosystems

Guessing root access is a requirement

Only for advanced features or if settings of your shared hosting are not optimal.

[devnull]

Perhaps you should consider a Managed Nextcloud as a third alternative alongside VPS and Pi. Whether you have your Nextcloud operated by a hoster within a VPS or hosted entirely is practically irrelevant. There are providers who offer you a fully managed Nextcloud for 5 euros a month with 500 MB or 1 TB, for example.

There are also web hosts that allow you SSH access with your normal user (not root), who can, however, send occ commands.

[virgosystems]

@devnull

There are providers who offer you a fully managed Nextcloud for 5 euros a month with 500 MB or 1 TB, for example.

This sounds promising. Can you name some such providers?

Also, assuming I have any problems with the provider, how feasible is it to take my data and run? In some other convos, I have heard that it’s easy to get the data but difficult to get the user accounts and plugins/settings.

[MichaelFliegner]

In order to be able

to take my data and run

I chose nextcloud all-in-one
with remote borg backup,
which makes replicating my entire cloud on another platform a breeze:

• restore a backup from remote
• run the aio install command and
• on localhost:8080 You then choose restore from backup instead of setting the domain name.

I decided for my own hardware, but can switch to a hosted server as a fallback in case it fails.

That will become even more convenient with
aio integration of remote backup.

[devnull]

@virgosystems

This sounds promising. Can you name some such providers?

In Germany e.g. Storage Share . Where do you come from?

[MichaelFliegner]

@MichaelFliegner

Ich nutze BorgBasecom, wie im Link siehe oben.
Das soll auch in AIO eingebaut werden. Ich schätze das, weil ich mit nicht-ITlern an einer nextcloud Infrastruktur arbeite und mich auf längere Sicht ersetzlich machen will. Und ich denke, dass ich in unserem Verein genug Leute finde, denen ich das beibringen kann.

I use BorgBase.com, as shown in the link above.
This will also be built into AIO . I appreciate this because I am working with non-IT people on a nextcloud infrastructure and want to make myself replaceable in the long term. And I think that I can find enough people in our organisation that I can teach this to.

[virgosystems]

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In Germany e.g. Storage Share . Where do you come from?
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I am in the states. I looked at Hetzner, I couldn’t see if they offered this. Obvs no clue if they support stateside.

I found out that some people offer region limited services in conversation with Ionos. I find that super weird, but whatever. The real interesting part is, Ionos said that they base it purely on the billing address. So if I know somebody in GB (In Ionos case) I can still get an account if I’m in the states.

I have a couple friends in Germany, I was thinking about making a reseller. Of course the money is peanuts, but it’s still money.

[devnull]

Search US Managed Nextcloud Hoster

[szaimen]

Hey, just FYI: remote backups are now possible with v10.0.0 beta. Testing and feedback is welcome! See GitHub - nextcloud/all-in-one: 📦 The official Nextcloud installation method. Provides easy deployment and maintenance with most features included in this one Nextcloud instance.