Differences between Nextcloud and OwnCloud Infinite Scale
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jammsession · 2023-10-12 09:00

In the last few months, I saw a lot of posts about people thinking if
they wanna make the switch from NextCloud to OwnCloud Infinite Scale.
That is why I gave it a try.
In the end, the important differences for me personally were different
than expected.


GO instead of PHP, better performance, less clutter, focus on files
only all sounded very nice. I also have one very personal gripe with
Nextcloud that most people probably find unimportant: the subscriber-
exclusive content for documentation.


Anyway, I personally found two very important differences for me and
probably a lot of people at /r/selfhostet.


**How data is internally stored:**


For Nextcloud this is easy. User folders with the data and a trashcan.
For OCIS it is random unique identifiers. This is huge for me! For
Nextcloud I can restore snapshots and S3 data without any hassle. It
is also very easy to sanity-check my backups. I don't have the same
confidence in OCIS.

**Age of the project and community size:**


OCIS is still pretty new. Documentation can be a little bit on the
light side because of that and is more directed to people who are
pros, assuming some deeper knowledge from the reader. The community is
pretty small and mostly still on classic OwnCloud.


**My conclusion:**


As an organization that has a support contract with OwnCloud, I would
go for OCIS. As a home and self-hosting user, the way data is stored
makes me stay on Nextcloud.

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sk1nT7 · 2023-10-12 11:23

And OCIS does not support encryption on rest or any fancy plugins.

So it is rather a lightweight alternative written in GO than a real
competitor or replacement.

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Jelloh415 · 2023-10-30 16:25

Nothing to add, but a side note:

>subscriber-exclusive documentation

You probably mean
[https://portal.nextcloud.com/](https://portal.nextcloud.com/) ? I
don't really know what's in there, but I assume it's stuff that is
only relevant for really large instances.

There is [https://docs.nextcloud.com/](https://docs.nextcloud.com/)
which seems to have everything? What are you missing?

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jammsession · 2023-10-30 19:40

Exactly that. Here is my limited knowledge of the Nextcloud fork:
Owncloud employees did not like how more and more things got paywalled
and then forked Nextcloud. Now Nextcloud is the fork that paywalls
documentation. Sounds like animal farm to me. But again, my knowledge
is very limited on that topic.