Congratulations to Telekom with its millions of MagentaCloud1 users. Throughout the year2, they will switch to Nextcloud3 and the online office service Collabora4, based on the free LibreOffice5. This is a real success story for Nextcloud and its years of work in winning over ISPs6. This reduces the arguments of proponents of Microsoft365 solutions who consider Nextcloud, Collabora, or Libreoffice as niche solutions. In recent years, I have personally seen the exact opposite. More and more people are using open-source solutions as a replacement for unpredictable and expensive subscription license models. Read more

Wednesday afternoon is designated for live-events on topics, software and technologies on my bucketlist, but not yet taken. So why not fire up screen-recording and make this an established part of this blog? Everything live and with the potential for being pin-tailed like a donkey when something’s going south? Event finished, join the next one on upcoming Wednesday!

Yesterday evening I rolled out the new update on my Nextcloud 21 instance. In the coming days, functional tests and adjustments will follow on the scripts for rolling out on customers’ systems Looking with interest on my Prometheus monitoring, how far the performance improvements affect actual implementation. That’s not usually worth an extra microblog. My point is, that I haven’t seen such a smooth upgrade of a Nextcloud main release with such broad app support for a while. Read more

Installing a Nextcloud instance is a snap. There are numerous tutorials and, on better NAS systems or hosting providers, even ready-to-use appliances that can be easily clicked together. When it comes to data backup, my observation is that the sources are rather limited and I would rather not use the few manuals that are available on the net. This blog post wants to help increase data protection with an automated, daily and complete backup for your Nextcloud. It is aimed at private users. The focus should not just rest on the script, but rather on the thoughts and considerations around it. Read more