The Complete Guide to Installing Nextcloud on Debian 10

The complete guide to installing Nextcloud on Debian 10

By Albin / 2020-02-24

Today we’re installing the free and open source cloud platform Nextcloud on a machine running Debian 10. Nextcloud is, in a nutshell, a secure self-hosted replacement for Dropbox, Google Docs and Google Calendar. You should own your data – not the big companies.

The guide somewhat resembles the WordPress how-to – as we did then we set up a database, a web server and a website written in PHP that is meant to sit behind a reverse proxy giving it a secure connection to the internet.

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Fixing Apt Update and Upgrade on Proxmox Without Subscription

Fixing apt update/upgrade on Proxmox (without subscription)

By Albin / 2020-02-24 – 2021-08-23

This is an extremely trivial guide – but when installing Proxmox for the first time I would have needed a guide like it.

As default, Proxmox is set to update against their paid enterprise repositories – but without a subscription you have no access to them. So what you have to do is remove the enterprise repository and add the free equivalent.

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Set Up a Log Server With Rsyslog on Debian 10

Set up a log server with Rsyslog on Debian 10

By Albin / 2020-01-30 – 2021-08-23

It is very handy to store all your logs in one place, especially in the event of a crash on one of your machines – you can then do the detective work on why it crashed using another computer (that works). It is of course also easier to search for errors across your machines and similar tasks.

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