Hey All, I am just getting started in my journey. Part of my goals is to de-google my life and am looking to start with my calendar. I want to to sync with my laptop and my phone. I was going to start reading about nextcould because it seems like it would have the stuff I need and more. My question is what does the community use, so that I can read and research about it. No technical questions yet.
Edit: Not sure why I cannot see the replies when signed in (visible when logged out). Will be checking out your suggestions. Thanks Self Hosted community!
Nextcloud is technically a solid product if your goal is to replace all the Google services. Personally I think it’s too heavy and I’ve had issues with using it vs using specialized apps for each service I’m replacing.
I still run it on a 10 year old chromebox (replacing chrome with linux of course). It’s really not that heavy. If it seems very slow, I’d try rebuilding the database from a dump (if mysql/mariadb), and making sure the db is on a fast drive. At least, those two things made a huge difference for me. Also, some people reported huge speedups switching to postgres.
setting up memcache was the biggest improvement for me.
I use and recommend Baikal.
Radicale on the home server, which syncs contacts and calendaring for us. Thunderbird on the desktop. Fossify Calendar on Android, synced to Radicale via DAVx⁵.
Radicale just works :)
This is the stupid simple and stable solution. Nextcloud was always giving me grief but Radicale is rock solid
Another thumbs up for Radicale. Light-weight and reliable. Just one Python process and all the calendars and contacts are stored as plain files.
Waking up to a broken nextcloud (overnight! Look, no hands!) was the single reason I finally got acquainted with docker containers
Good choice, Nextcloud has all the calendars you’ll ever need. (Same for contacts btw)
Yeah I love it. Also if you are stuck with outlook. Use Caldav synchronizer it is a add-on you can use with outlook to sync calendars with nextcloud.
Radicale on the server, exposed publicly on a “secret” subdomain.
InfCloud as a web app.
Calengoo on the phone and it also has clients for desktop (Windows, Linux, Mac).
CalDAV-Sync / CardDAV-Sync to sync on Android (although Calengoo can also connect directly to Radicale).
I tried DAVx5 for Android sync but it had issues with large calendars and would choke sometimes when it lost connectivity.
I’m surprised nobody here mentioned SoGO. It’s a fully featured web mail interface that integrates contact management and a web calendar including caldav, carddav and task support. Easy up setup and easy to connect to any phone via foss apps.
I have not heard of it and it sounds like what I am looking for.
I use EteSync because it’s End-to-end encrypted and I don’t fully trust my security practices.
I use Nextcloud
I use EteSync to sync my contacts. It can do calendars also and has a self-hosted option. Personally I just use Proton for my calendar at the moment.
I haven’t tested any desktop syncing with EteSync, but maybe it will work for you.
I use DavMail to proxy an Exchange account so I don’t have to install Outlook on my phone.
I also cannot see replies while signed in. It’s something I’ve accepted as a shortcoming of Lemmy from time to time.
