自建云存储：Nextcloud vs. ownCloud vs. Seafile

自建云存储：Nextcloud vs. ownCloud vs. Seafile

Self-hosted Cloud Storage: Nextcloud vs. ownCloud vs. Seafile

By Ashutosh KS in Hosting. Updated on June 13, 2018.

Are you planning to build your own Dropbox-type cloud storage for your team or business? Though there are various self-hosted cloud solutions for creating a private cloud yet all of them will not fit your requirements.

That is why, in this post I am going to confront the top three self-hosted cloud storage solutionsi.e. Nextcloud, ownCloud, and Seafile, to help you pick the best. These three are free and open-source solutions to create and host private cloud — a cloud for you and your contacts only.

So, let us discuss these in detail to know where they stand individually.

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Introduction

ownCloud was started to provide a free replacement for proprietary storage service providers. Nextcloud, on the other hand, is a featureful fork of ownCloud that was started by ownCloud’s core developers including its founding developer. And Seafile was born with an objective to develop and distribute a file syncing software.

Although these three were started to provide a proprietary-free cloud storage solution yet they have lots of differences. The most notable among those is, ownCloud and Seafile offer two editions — a server edition that is free and open-source and a pro/enterprise edition with extra features, but Nextcloud, on the other hand, features a single edition with optional enterprise support.

Download options

Nextcloud provides numerous methods to install or get it — an archive file and a web installer for dedicated servers and shared hosts. It also offers appliances and images for easy deployment to your servers.

Lastly, there are also officially suggested cloud providers and device manufacturers to get it easily.

ownCloud, being the base