I’ve been running Nextcloud on a DigitalOcean droplet, backed by S3 compatible storage from Wasabi for about 3 years now - it’s been pretty seamless. I think the old Nextcloud client syncing issues are a thing of the past (unless you work will really big files). Costs me $15/mo total.
My Nextcloud instance gets one-way synced using rclone to a NAS once daily, and one-way synced weekly as a tar archive to Onedrive (1TB storage from Office365 is otherwise unused, so...). The rclone setup is all with docker-compose + sops for rclone config, so I can just git clone and Docker-compose anywhere to get another machine backing up.
A nice addition is that the droplet serves as a WireGuard server that all my devices are pretty much always connected to (with split routing).
I host a couple of other services on the droplet including The Lounge for IRC, my personal website and a pastebin type app.
I chose Fastmail for Yubikey support, and unlimited mail aliases. A little dissatisfied with mail organization tools on the webmail GUI — but it’s also the client for alias creation, so gets frequent use anyway.
My Nextcloud instance gets one-way synced using rclone to a NAS once daily, and one-way synced weekly as a tar archive to Onedrive (1TB storage from Office365 is otherwise unused, so...). The rclone setup is all with docker-compose + sops for rclone config, so I can just git clone and Docker-compose anywhere to get another machine backing up.
A nice addition is that the droplet serves as a WireGuard server that all my devices are pretty much always connected to (with split routing).
I host a couple of other services on the droplet including The Lounge for IRC, my personal website and a pastebin type app.
If anyone is interested, the whole setup is on GitHub at https://github.com/jnsgruk/infra