Nextcloud

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File sync, sharing, and a suite of apps on your own server

Nextcloud started as file sync and grew into a full collaboration suite: documents, calendar, contacts, chat, and an application ecosystem on top of the same account system.

Breadth is both its strength and its cost. A focused deployment is excellent; enabling everything at once produces a system that needs real administration.

Decisive facts

File sync and sharing across desktop, web, and mobile
Collaborative office documents through Collabora or OnlyOffice
Calendar, contacts, mail, and chat as first party applications
External storage mounts for S3, SMB, and existing shares
Extensive app store for extending the deployment

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