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Am I the only one who missed the Owncloud rewrite in Go? (owncloud.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The topic of self-hosted cloud software comes up often but I haven't seen anyone mention owncloud infinite scale (the rewrite in Go).

I started my cloud experience with owncloud years ago. Then there was a schism and almost all the active devs left for the nextcloud fork.

I used nextcloud from it's inception until last year but like many others it always felt brittle (easy to break something) and half baked (features always seemed to be at 75% of what you want).

As a result I decided to go with Seafile and stick to the Unix philosophy. Get an app that does one thing very well rather than a mega app that tries to do everything.

Seafile does this very well. Super fast, works with single sign on etc. No bloat etc.

Then just the other day I discovered that owncloud has a full rewrite. No php, no Apache etc. Check the github, multiple active devs with lots of activity over the last year etc. The project seems stronger than ever and aims to fix the primary issues of nextcloud/owncloud PHP. Also designed for cloud deployment so works well with docker, should be easy to configure via docker variables instead of config files mapped into the container etc.

Anyways, the point of this thread is:

If you never heard of it like me then check it out
If you have used it please post your experiences compared to NextCloud, Seafile etc.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I wanted to spin up OCIS but for some reason ran in to difficulties with the Docker container. I forget what the issues were, but I already had a solid Nextcloud instance running so I didn't dig very hard. Would like to revisit it some day.

However, since then Owncloud has been bought out, causing some worry.

Edit- Merger info

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did not know this. Thanks!

Looks like Kiteworks invested in OwnCloud in 2014 and they still seems to be going strong with the OSS development which is a good sign.

This probably explains why there are so many active devs on the project and how they got a full rewrite into version 4 relatively quickly.

Already seems to have more features than Seafile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

2023, I remember the announcement last year. Not sure where you're getting 2014 from, that was even before NC split off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh never mind, I saw this finding announcement for 6M and assumed it was the same company. Looks like they have many corporate investors...doesn't inspire too much confidence.

Although they are still using the Apache 2 license and you can see they are very active in github. It does look like it's a good FOSS project from the surface.

https://owncloud.com/news/muktware-owncloud-gets-another-round-6-3-million-funding-releases-owncloud-6-enterprise-edition/