Finally, I’ll now cover the installation of Nextcloud on Debian! At this point, is expected that you already had: Choose a VPS provider and concluded the initial setup of your Debian server; Installed Nginx; Installed PostgreSQL; Installed PHP 8.1. I’m currently using Debian 11, but these instructions may be equally valid for other versions of Debian and Ubuntu. Read the tutorial...

The most recent version of Debian, with the code name “Bullseye”, was released today! Debian is one of oldest Linux distributions, notorious for been stable and reliable. Used as base for many other distributions. And a popular choice to run on servers. Debian sees a new release each two years (more or less) and in conjunction with their Long Term Support team, they promise at least 5 years of extended support for the each stable release. Read more...

On the way to install Nextcloud we’ve already completed the initial setup of our VPS, the installation of Nginx and the installation of PostgreSQL. I will now cover the installation of PHP 8.1. Why PHP 8.1? Because, PHP 7.4 has no longer active support and will have its security support ending in November 2022.1 And, PHP 8.1 is the recommended version to run Nextcloud 25.2 I’m currently using Debian 11, but these instructions may be equally valid for other versions of Debian and Ubuntu. Read the tutorial...

This is the second post on the road to self-host Nextcloud. At this point we have already choosed a provider and deployed a VPS and completed its initial setup. Now, we’re going to cover the installation of Nginx, the use of Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates and the configuration of the web server to use HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). I’m currently using Debian 11, but these instructions may be equally valid for other versions of Debian and Ubuntu. Read the tutorial...

This is the first of a series of posts that will cover from the deployment of a VPS up to the installation of Nextcloud. These are the kind of posts I will write mostly for future memory, but if they will be useful to you, even better. I’m not reinventing the wheel here, these are just the result of the sum of tutorials and lessons I keep learning. On this post I will cover the use of SSH to connect to a server, the creation of a new user with administrative privileges and the setup of a firewall. I’m currently using Debian 11, but these instructions may be equally valid for other versions of Debian and Ubuntu. Read the tutorial...