Hi all,
Seeking some strategy/advise.
I’ve just installed Nextcloud on my Odroid. I’ve yet to populate it with any data as it isn’t secured with Certbot & Fail2Ban or nothing else. The security aspect troubles me. One question I have is whether it would be any more secure if I hosted it on a VPS rather than at home.
I was looking through all the Nextcloud “apps” and realised that I don’t really need or want to run the vast majority of them. I use Fastmail for email, my wife and I are sharing calendars & contacts via iOS/macOS and I don’t even want to suggest that she changes anything. She doesn’t care how or why something works but I’d rather her blame Apple over me if something doesn’t work.
What I really need most is access to my documents and files (lots of reference material), over LAN and WAN, on my mac laptop and iPhone as well as a way to host shared files (bank statements etc) with wifey (and her Windows machine) without having to sync the weight of it to my laptop or phone.
So Nextcloud’s web browser access is perfect for that. I can pull down or view whatever I need at the time without having to sync entire folders.
Then I realised maybe I don’t need Nextcloud, maybe I just need some shares set up, securely, so I can access remotely.
I have pihole running and was about to set up piVPN so I could access the pinhole from outside the network. Would this make Nextcloud secure too? Would this interfere with my wife’s work VPN?
I must admit I find the concept of VPNs confusing.
Would a paid VPN be better?
And if I ditch Nextcloud for shares should I go with Samba, SFTP or Webdav?
Help me, please
