Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage)
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With the acquisition of my current laptop, I'm interested in starting to use open-source solutions when possible for the various tasks I complete and services I consume. Why? Just because. One of the first areas I'm looking at is file storage and productivity. In addition to my full-time job, I am a sole proprietor for various side projects (teaching saxophone lessons, contracted IT work, etc.). I typically do these things under the persona of my domain, eddiejennings.net.
My current solution for having hosted E-mail and office applications is a 1 license subscription to Office 365 Business Premium. I know that LibreOffice is available for open-source productivity software; however, I'm considering what the alternative would be for OneDrive for Business. Perhaps Nextcloud is the answer to that (as @JaredBusch suggested over OwnCloud that I found). The question then becomes "where should Nextcloud be hosted?" I assume, for example, if a company wanted to use NextCloud they'd probably host it on Vultr or AWS rater than running a server locally, and exposing it to the Internet.
Keep in mind the scope of these musings: Brainstorm open-source options available, then from that brainstorm figuring out what makes sense to use / does it make sense to move to an open-source option.
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Vultr is by far the best place for Nextcloud if you are at 1TB or less. No one comes even remotely close to them.
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On that note, it looks like I could get one of the cheapest instance of Vultr and one 10 GB block of storage and exceed my current storage needs from OneDrive.
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I use Vultr for my personal Nextcloud. I have a 250GB Sata instance for $5/Month (I think)
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@brianlittlejohn said in Exploring the Open Source world:
I use Vultr for my personal Nextcloud. I have a 250GB Sata instance for $5/Month (I think)
At that price you can get non local O365 business account.
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@Dashrender True, the online-only offering for O365 Business is $5. The goal of this thought experiment is seeing how you can achieve office applications + remote file storage / sharing using open sourced solutions.
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@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world:
On that note, it looks like I could get one of the cheapest instance of Vultr and one 10 GB block of storage and exceed my current storage needs from OneDrive.
That's not how you do it. You want their STORAGE instances, not something that comes with storage blocks.
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@scottalanmiller said in Exploring the Open Source world:
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world:
On that note, it looks like I could get one of the cheapest instance of Vultr and one 10 GB block of storage and exceed my current storage needs from OneDrive.
That's not how you do it. You want their STORAGE instances, not something that comes with storage blocks.
https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ Does their "Vultr Cloud Compute" their "storage instances"? Methinks the answer is "no."
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I see this becoming a multi-thread conversation, rather than cramming my exploration into one thread.
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@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@scottalanmiller said in Exploring the Open Source world:
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world:
On that note, it looks like I could get one of the cheapest instance of Vultr and one 10 GB block of storage and exceed my current storage needs from OneDrive.
That's not how you do it. You want their STORAGE instances, not something that comes with storage blocks.
https://www.vultr.com/pricing/ Does their "Vultr Cloud Compute" their "storage instances"? Methinks the answer is "no."
You only see the products that they offer if you are signed in.
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@scottalanmiller Ah, now I see.
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@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@Dashrender True, the online-only offering for O365 Business is $5. The goal of this thought experiment is seeing how you can achieve office applications + remote file storage / sharing using open sourced solutions.
is that because that's what the thought experiment is? - solely about OSS solutions?
Doesn't NextCloud have Libre Office built into it now?
Does anyone know if Libre Office has a connection API (probably WebDAV) to NextCloud to work like OD/ODfB?
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@Dashrender said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@Dashrender True, the online-only offering for O365 Business is $5. The goal of this thought experiment is seeing how you can achieve office applications + remote file storage / sharing using open sourced solutions.
is that because that's what the thought experiment is? - solely about OSS solutions?
Doesn't NextCloud have Libre Office built into it now?
Does anyone know if Libre Office has a connection API (probably WebDAV) to NextCloud to work like OD/ODfB?
It has the Collabora Suite as an addon, but it's not included in the main app.
A quick check, shows that LO does offer some remote file capabilities... (File -> Open Remote File)
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OK so you know you can setup a WebDAV session to NC if you wanted.
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@Dashrender said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
Does anyone know if Libre Office has a connection API (probably WebDAV) to NextCloud to work like OD/ODfB?
It's called Remote Servers and I use it all of the time. Uses the WebDav interface.
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@Dashrender said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@EddieJennings said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
@Dashrender
is that because that's what the thought experiment is? - solely about OSS solutions?Correct.
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For all the trouble I have gone through to get RDSH working, Next Cloud still makes me wonder...
And does Anyone use Libre Office as a full replacement for Office 2016?
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@bigbear said in Exploring the Open Source world - Part 1 (Productivity Software and File Storage):
For all the trouble I have gone through to get RDSH working, Next Cloud still makes me wonder...
And does Anyone use Libre Office as a full replacement for Office 2016?
We do. Yes. Unless you are collaborating on document writing with other companies, little use for MS Office.
