Alternative to nextcloud or seafile pro for S3 storage?

Poli · November 2, 2020, 3:29pm

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a solution that isn’t using nextcloud (because it’s **** with S3 it’s really fucking **** i can’t say it enough). I tried to mount my volume with goofys instead it worked well but nextcloud is soooooo slooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Then I looked at seafile but damn the pricing is **** once you pass 9 users it’s 4$ per users imagine I sell 10 gb to a custommer and he pays 7$ just to get 10gb (it’s ****).

So I was looking for any alternative that support LDAP and S3 if possible. And maybe not at the price of 4$ per users.

The best would be one that supports also modifying files online like in seafile or nextcloud.
I really like seafile however the pricing is really not the thing I need… Or maybe you have any tips for it?

Thanks for your help girls and guys as always I appreciate it.

ac_fan · November 2, 2020, 3:59pm

Mount S3 via RClone for NextCloud, and make sure the NC data files aren’t put on that mount (there’s an issue on NC’s GitHub that should help you, I believe).

Poli · November 2, 2020, 4:01pm

Mhmm, the issue I had with rsync was file conflicts, but i’ll test it out thanks for this first answer.

But what do you mean for NC data ?

ac_fan · November 2, 2020, 4:39pm

I believe NC creates some files of it’s own, which it uses very frequently, in the folder specified for user files. That becomes an issue when the folder is remotely mounted. Also, it’s RClone, not RSync.

Poli · November 2, 2020, 4:52pm

Yes sorry wanted to say rclone, any idea on how I can do that to setup two differents folders?

ac_fan · November 2, 2020, 5:17pm

Apologies, the issue isn’t exactly the same, but probably still useful (since we’re exposing S3 via a mount, rather than using the inbuilt “External Storage” feature).

github.com/nextcloud/server

Feature: Add config option to move appdata filesystem

opened 05:32PM - 11 Jan 17 UTC

closed 12:04PM - 12 Jan 17 UTC

JasonLocklin

### Steps to reproduce 1. Install Owncloud on a system with a small/fast SSD. … 2. Put datadirectory/ on a big/slow HDD or NFS mount. 3. Do not use external storage backend, or anything like that. ### Expected behaviour Web UI should be quick, as Owncloud should be able to do everything *except* read the user's files without touching the big/slow disk. ### Actual behaviour Several media components of the web UI sit in the appdata folder, within datadirectory, and so the whole web UI is slowed down whenever it needs to wait for those components. This is *especially* true for the gallery -as all of the thumbnails are in appdata, but affects other areas that use appdata as well. Appdata/ tends to be much smaller than user's data, and does not necissarily *need* to be on the big/slow storage. ### Workaround Bind mount appdata/ from somewhere else on the SSD into datadirectory/ This will cause problems if Owncloud ever starts without that bind mount. ### Cleaner fix. Add an 'appdata' location option to config.php, just like there is a 'datadirectory' option, so it can be placed somewhere else on the system.