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### Nextcloud Hosting Options

Nextcloud is an open-source online ecosystem that you can use isntead of Google, Apple, or Microsoft, to keep all of your data private, secure, & out of the hands of Big Tech & out of the hands of Big Government.

This post list some Nextcloud options below.

>Note: Out of all of the options below, Cloudamo is the best option for people who aren't super techie, but want the ability to customize their own Nextcloud.

**A Brief List of Nextcloud Options:**
(There are many, many more Nextcloud options)

1. **Pay For a Nextcloud Service Provider.** You pay the Nextcloud provider money, and they DO NOT sell your data to anyone and everyone. If you go this route, you are stuck with whatever Nextcloud apps they install, and cannot customize your Nextcloud.
 
   - [eCloud/Murena](https://murena.io/), a French company that offers a free account w/free email, up to 1Gig. 
    - [LibertyStratus](https://libertystrat.us/), a conservative Patriotic company out of Arizona.

2. **Host Nextcloud on Someone Else's Server (VPS)**

   -  [Cloudamo](https://cloudamo.com/) - Company out of Switzerland, with servers in the USA. You 100% control what gets installed on your Nextcloud.
   - [Linode/Akamai](https://www.linode.com/) & [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/) are some of the most commonly used hosts for this.
     - With Linode and Digital Ocean you can do full disk encryption. This creates even more headache.
     - Note: Even with full disk encryption, your Nextcloud VPS provider can still see your data if they really want to by doing a physical memory dump of the server hardware to get your VPS full disk encryption key.

3. **Host Nextcloud on Your Own Hardware at Home.**  Self-Hosting on your own hardware is the ideal situation. Nobody can get their hands on your server without going through you.

**Here are some tutorials on setting up Nextcloud:**

- [Installing Nextcloud on a Linode/Akamai VPS](https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-install-nextcloud-on-ubuntu-22-04/)
  - [Video Tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teUlz635ZoA) on Installing Nextcloud on a Linode/Akamai VPS.
- [The Official Nextcloud Install Script](https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html#installation-via-install-script)
  - Note: You need to set up your LAMP server first. LAMP = Linux Apache MariaDB/MySQL PHP. If you scroll up, that link guides you through a LAMP install.

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