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Services like Google Drive, OneDrive or Dropbox are becoming increasingly popular: they not only allow us to safeguard our filesIts out of our devices, but keep these in sync with each other; and, in addition, they incorporate extra functionalities (such as document editing).

But none of these platforms provides us with a personal cloud in the strict sense of the term: we we hardly have the ability to customize the settings of them, and that not to mention the control that we can exercise of the stored data.

But there are alternatives that do allow us to take complete control of our personal cloudlike ownCloud and Nextcloud.

Just as when we create a website we can choose solutions managed by third parties (such as WordPress.com) or self-managed solutions (such as WordPress.org), the two aforementioned platforms give us the option to install on the web server that we prefer (even on an intranet).

In 2016, six years after ownCloud was born (within the KDE community, although it later became independent of it), most of its developers (including the creator of the project, Frank Karlitschek) promoted a fork of said project: that was Nextclouds kick-off.

Nextcloud is an open source cloud platform that allows you to host data and files between different devices (also mobile) and users. If we had to compare it with proprietary platforms, we would say that it is not only equivalent to Google Drive: it also assumes the functions of Google Calendar and Google Photos.

And thats not to mention the large number of complementary applications, cataloged in their own Nextcloud App Store, which allow us to add all kinds of extra functions to Nextcloud and use it as a substitute for many of the online services that we use on a daily basis.

Thus, its ecosystem of applications includes blogs, maps, music players / organizers, webmail, SMS synchronizers, Google Docs office suites, Markdown text editors, video chats, task managers, notes or passwords, RSS readers .

A sample of the applications that we can add to Nextcloud.

But, what do we need to run our own cloud on Nextcloud? Fundamentally, a domain name and a virtual server (such as an AWS service or a VPS server any web hosting does not work) in which to host and run the platform; the first can get us for one euros a year (depending on the chosen extension, of course) and the second for 5 euros a month.

We will also need, of course, basic knowledge of Linux administration, since we will have to connect by SSH from our team to install and configure Nextcloud (and the firewall and the web server) in the Linux of the remote server; Fortunately, there are countless guides and video tutorials that will help you complete the process.

Nextcloud desktop client syncing files.

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