ownCloud Is Everything Nextcloud Should Have Been

🤖 Abacus.ai -- today's sponsor! Access every major AI model in one place -- Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, and more -- all for just $10/month. No juggling multiple subscriptions. Plus AI image generation, video generation, and the Deep Agent that can build full applications, websites, and AI pipelines. Check it out here: https://chatllm.abacus.ai/dbt I've been pretty vocal about my feelings on Nextcloud. After a catastrophic data loss early in my self-hosting journey, I went looking for something better. That search eventually led me to ownCloud -- and I think I've finally found what I was looking for. In this video I walk through my experience setting up ownCloud with Collabora for browser-based document editing, what went wrong along the way, and why ownCloud's approach to things like built-in cron jobs makes such a big difference. Timestamps: 00:00 - My history with Nextcloud 00:31 - Why I kept looking for an alternative 00:47 - Sponsor: Abacus.ai 02:15 - The Nextcloud data loss story 03:50 - What I actually want in a file server 04:27 - Why I moved on from Seafile 04:32 - Setting up ownCloud 04:50 - The enterprise license rabbit hole 06:38 - Getting everything working 06:50 - Setting up Collabora 07:13 - Cloudflare Tunnels and the 100MB limit 07:36 - Using Collabora day to day 08:06 - The cron job advantage 08:42 - Final thoughts 09:11 - ownCloud's complaints 09:40 - Wrapping up Subtitles by WinWhisper /=========================================/ ✅ Amazon Wishlist: https://dbte.ch/amznwishlist Get early, ad-free access to new content by becoming a channel member, or a Patron! ✅ https://www.patreon.com/dbtech ✅ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVy16RS5eEDh8anP8j94G2A/join All My Social Links: ✅ https://dbt3.ch/@dbtech Join Discord! ✅ https://discord.gg/M9J6hFq /=========================================/ ✨Ways to support DB Tech: ✅ https://www.patreon.com/dbtech ✅ https://www.paypal.me/DBTechReviews ✅ https://ko-fi.com/dbtech ✅ Cashapp: https://cash.app/$dbtechyt ✅ Venmo: https://venmo.com/dbtechyt ✨Come chat in Discord: ✅ https://dbte.ch/discord