Wolf Greenblatt
2024-02-07 20:16:39 UTC
I was looking for a free cloud server and found a few, the best perhaps
being the suggestion of Mega's free 20GB from Andy Burns on the Android ng.
https://mega.io/
There were also suggestions of the hard to believe 1TB of free storage.
https://www.terabox.com/
But they require accounts and some even require a credit card first.
Luckily, Arno Welzel suggested using Nextcloud (or Owncloud) servers,
where when I looked them both up, they seem to require a linux base.
https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-install-nextcloud-server-on-windows-10.html
From that article I can see both the NextCloud server seems to install on
Windows if we set up something called WSL or if we turn on other things
called "XAMMP, WAMP & IIS server" or if we use "VirtualBox/Vmware player".
But I've never done any of that which is why I'm asking for advice here.
That article also mentions Owncloud which seems to be similar to Nextcloud
but which seems to be open source (so maybe that's the better way to go?).
This article for installing OwnCloud says we need to use "XAMMP, WAMP &
Internet Information Services (IIS)" to make Windows an Owncloud server.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-owncloud-in-windows/
There seems to be Windows binaries but I couldn't open them on Windows.
https://download.owncloud.com/ocis/ocis/stable/4.0.2/ocis-4.0.2-darwin-amd64
So I might need to follow an installation manual rather than just guess.
But before I do that, if you've already made all these decisions as to
which cloud server to set up (Owncloud or Nextcloud) which you like best?
And then, which is the better way for you to set it up given it's linux
based? Did you use "WSL" or "XAMP/WAMP/IIS" or "VBox/VMWARE" methods?
What's the difference?
being the suggestion of Mega's free 20GB from Andy Burns on the Android ng.
https://mega.io/
There were also suggestions of the hard to believe 1TB of free storage.
https://www.terabox.com/
But they require accounts and some even require a credit card first.
Luckily, Arno Welzel suggested using Nextcloud (or Owncloud) servers,
where when I looked them both up, they seem to require a linux base.
https://www.how2shout.com/how-to/how-to-install-nextcloud-server-on-windows-10.html
From that article I can see both the NextCloud server seems to install on
Windows if we set up something called WSL or if we turn on other things
called "XAMMP, WAMP & IIS server" or if we use "VirtualBox/Vmware player".
But I've never done any of that which is why I'm asking for advice here.
That article also mentions Owncloud which seems to be similar to Nextcloud
but which seems to be open source (so maybe that's the better way to go?).
This article for installing OwnCloud says we need to use "XAMMP, WAMP &
Internet Information Services (IIS)" to make Windows an Owncloud server.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-owncloud-in-windows/
There seems to be Windows binaries but I couldn't open them on Windows.
https://download.owncloud.com/ocis/ocis/stable/4.0.2/ocis-4.0.2-darwin-amd64
So I might need to follow an installation manual rather than just guess.
But before I do that, if you've already made all these decisions as to
which cloud server to set up (Owncloud or Nextcloud) which you like best?
And then, which is the better way for you to set it up given it's linux
based? Did you use "WSL" or "XAMP/WAMP/IIS" or "VBox/VMWARE" methods?
What's the difference?