Now you can deploy and run your own hyper-secure file sharing platform, by downloading FileCloud’s Community Edition. Visit ntck.co/filecloud and download FileCloud Community Edition as a self-hosted solution, on your Windows or Linux servers or preferred IaaS provider (AWS, Azure). (no code required) In this video, NetworkChuck will walk you through how to create your own cloud, either at home, on-prem or in the cloud! NetworkChuck demos the setup of FileCloud and Nextcloud, two excellent dropbox, google drive and microsoft one drive replacements. These are great options for both personal and business. LINKS --------------------------------------------------- FileCloud AWS: ntck.co/3CyTYz4 AWS IAM User Policy: ntck.co/3PkKPlj FileCloud Docker install: ntck.co/3pckT0A FileCloud Linux Install: ntck.co/42OypoM NextCloud Install: ntck.co/44694HZ 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy **Sponsored by Filecloud 0:00 ⏩ Intro 1:43 ⏩ What do you need? 3:57 ⏩ What is FileCloud? 6:30 ⏩ the SETUP: FileCloud on AWS 12:44 ⏩ Amazon S3 Setup with FileCloud 23:30 ⏩ the SETUP: On-Prem FileCloud 28:43 ⏩ Adding an External Hard Drive to FileCloud 32:13 ⏩ Setting up a Domain Name and SSL for FileCloud 38:18 ⏩ Mounting a Remote Share in FileCloud 41:58 ⏩ the SETUP: NextCloud
:3 Yeah, a great way to try to sell some personal cloud systems, especially with the Restrict Act for Americans (I was born and raised in infamous Miami, FL, USA, and thankfully I left all three places). :3
Your ability to explain things in a relaxing and fun way makes IT look less intimidating. I feel like a kid playing a video game, watching a guide on how to beat the level rather than watching a 'Death by Powerpoint' presentation. Thank you fellow systems administrator!
@anthonydowney3109 as soon as I read your comment I was like, "Yes! he's right @NetworkChuck does make it feel like I'm getting some quick guide. I SO hate PowerPoint and just want to see it in action. He does such an amazing job at giving enough details and making it seem like a quest v/s a presentation.
@@zinsy23 VSauce Michael said once upon a time that "the best way to teach is to educate someone without them realizing they are being educated" (not an exact quote). I agree 100% with Mark Rober's advice on learning and I cant wait to see more from NetworkChuck and his team!
You are the best! I started seeing your videos when I was starting in IT as a HelpDesk. Now I am working as a Cloud Engineer and before as a sysadmin. You teached me a lot and the best is that you make the curiosity grows for all the technologies you show in your videos. Greetings from Argentina!
Minor change, always apply minimal permission with AWS IAM. For the EC2 instance's role: vs S3:* for resources, actually just give it the bucket name. You might need to do two resources, one bucket name, the other bucket name/*. This will limit access to only that bucket which is best practice for security 😉.
@@chillvibes71 there are free tiers that will allow you to use *some* resources without charging but yes, you will always need a form of payment on file.
I also used to be a self-taught programmer before I launched my own software development company. It's cool that today we can watch such videos for education purposes in RUclips! 👍
I’ll be honest, I watched this all the way to the end attentively. It was very interesting, yet I’m not quite sure what I learnt but I did learn something I’m sure. I have a Synology NAS and I guess that’s my personal Cloud. I guess if I needed another cloud, I can remember Fileshare and probably just remember to come back and rewatch this video as it was amazing.
You’re good with your Synology. File Cloud and nextcloud are more for people who don’t have a NAS or who just want to use their own hardware. Thanks for watching!
@@NetworkChuck I'd say Nextcloud has additional features that may be useful even if you are running it off a NAS. My Nextcloud instance has OnlyOffice integration, Memories for a google photo replacement, News for an RSS feed, Notes for Markdown/Rich text note keeping, and a calendar. If you ONLY need file storage, your NAS is plenty, but if you need more, Nextcloud has more.
@@emilymarriott5927 synology selling point is NAS , but for me ithink their selling point is their softwares and case, u can install more apps than nextcloud in synology OS and phone apps included too, for nextcloud I dont see any good phone apps for nextcloud memories to replace google photo.
Thanks for the tutorial, although it's a little long hahaha, maybe you can answer my question. If you recommend buying the office packages, it's because I have problems with them
No one has. Honestly, this seems like an ad for filecloud. Nextcloud, before that owncloud, will always will be the main go to for stuff like this. Or any other self hosted similar solution.
Do they let you renew or get a new one for free, for another year, like most other home lab type licenses (Sophos UTM, for example, does the same thing)? This is a great model and I wish other companies would do the same. This lets the geeks like me use it in the home lab for free so we learn what it all does and so we can recommend it or support it with other paying customers (win, win).
idk how you and your editor do it but you both make this long and drawn-out process actually entertaining to watch and learn. Thank you so much lol keep up the great content
Thank you so much for the AWS walkthrough. I've been through so many AWS and Azure classes that teach you all the terminology and theory and prepare you for the exams - but your guide is so much better because it's way more practical and focused on actually using AWS instead of studying it.
Omg chuck! You never fail to amaze me with your knowledge and with your teaching ability. You have been the backbone of my education in IT and in cybersecurity. Thank you for all your content. You should have your own networking and cybersecurity boot camp! I am going to attempt to try this setup myself. You inspire me to keep reaching and growing!
I have not owned a computer for over 10 years! now I have one, I found myself to be incredibly out of date with basic computer use. So happy to come across your channel which mixes the perfect blend of advanced computer use and easy watching. Love your stuff bro, don't stop the videos anytime soon!
Hey Chuck! Appreciated for all your time and another amazing video. Additional info: if you are trying to set this up outside of "us-east-1" region, don't forget to add "S3 Region" parameter for your s3 bucket in FileCloud settings or else it keeps giving error. Greetings from Turkey!
No way you release this video as soon as I was thinking I needed this due to the lack of storage on my phone and me not wanting to pay iCloud money for more storage to back up my 9,000 photos LOL. Big ups to you and love the content!
@@guacfiend fair point, I’m just an IT guy looking to complicate his life a little more to learn more if I’m honest 😂 learn by doing. But yeah, I likely will end up getting a TB of iCloud storage
This is an excellent introduction to self-hosting your data and owning things, but I think mentioning the risks is important. At least about backing up those data especially if you're self-hosting. Most people who see this video are likely to know about 3-2-1 backup but there will be some people that do this for the first time. If you can do a walk-through of FileCould would be amazing. I use NextCloud but its slow at times and FileCloud looks like a good replacement option.
No idea how your channel got on my feed, but your videos are so clear and concise with a little bit of Dad humor it is awesome, thank you very much and keep it up.
Had to pause @1:02 to come and comment. Your production value is off the hook and instantly spoke to me directly. You got some magic sauce dude, I'm looking forward to the rest of the video!
I've been running Nextcloud on my unraid server for a year now, and its been so incredibly unreliable that I'm probably just going to rebuild my little dell optiplex with 2 2tb drives, and build it as a Filecloud server now. Thanks for posting!
45:00 You can map Nextcloud as a network drive in windows and linux if that's what you mean. There is also the nextcloud client that automatically syncs changes locally.
Nice range of options. Another on-prem solution is using a NAS. Synology especially offer a range that is insanely powerful, you can go with a small unit for SOHO all the way up to rack mount units for serious hosting, they offer a suite of apps to support your own cloud, and smaller boxes are very energy efficient which old spare hardware won't be. It is a nice inbetween of having complete control of your data, with the availability and reliability of commercial solutions like OneDrive, including hardware support and every feature (if your unit hardware supports it) is free forever. They can run VMs, websites, network services like DNS and DHCP, CCTV NVR, Docker, media center, and so much more.
This is basically what I want to create for my friends and I, an online service that I host that can replace all the things in our lives like Netflix and Dropbox and all that stuff. I just want a location where I and all of my friends can access and upload our data anywhere and it's always available to us in one convenient spot. I have no idea how to do that but hopefully the rest of this video will give me some pointers lol
A fun video you would do an amazing job with would be building a home/small business on-prem security system. Including security cams, smart home features with Home Assistant, and whatever else you can think of! Emphasis on PRIVACY and SECURITY. You always do a great job and we appreciate your awesome content!
all that AWS set up stuff is super cool i gotta admit, but i can't help thinking - if we are trying to move away from google drive / dropbox etc because we want to own+control our data, how is it useful to simply have it hosted on amazon's servers/drives instead of google's or dropbox's?
Man oh man! You sir are very valuable to me. You just gave me all the info and the pep to start my own company's cloud and spared me major headaches to deal with 13 collaborators. I hope my thank you reaches you!
I use Sybology. Bought myself 2x 20TB drives to use in RAID1. One-time payment for the gear, get to use my NAS as I would Dropbox as the Synopogy Drive App offers a Sync option. FTP, secure sharing, web UI from anywhere. It truly is great. I use it every day!
4:55 EFS - one of many ambiguous (and sometimes umbrella) acronyms in the IT field. Enterprise File Sharing (Solution) Encrypting File System Elastic File System (when pertaining the cloud via Amazon, well AWS, mentioned in the video), etc. 😵💫 22:31 Excitement _click that_ 😃 43:41-43:52 Install the installer. Then the installer attempts other installations by installing the other installers. 😂 45:49 Looks pretty much similar to DropBox to me unless their interface has changed dramatically since. 46:58 I used the Edward Snowden recommended Spider Oak for file sharing. Not telling you what I am using...yet.
Watching your video from beginning to end, pausing hundreds of times, I was able to create a step-by-step guide from start to finish. I am familiar with AWS and I am going to build my own cloud storage. I am your biggest fan; I regularly watch your videos and have learned more than ever. I wish I could meet you in person. You have changed my professional life; I thought it was impossible. In September 2022, I started as an IT support, and now I am working as a Network Security Specialist in a government office. I don't know how many people's lives have been changed because of your knowledge sharing, but you have definitely changed mine. After this project I will be working on building my own AI and I am full confident that I can do it watching your video. Thank you, Bernard Hackwell.
This video bro, i would give you and that moustache a big fat kiss if i could through the screen. You gave me a solution to a problem ive been facing for a while. Thanks fam, now i got a really good way to do this project for family
I have to say I really like Nextcloud. I've been using it in my home lab and deployed it at work too. Runs really great and integrates well in an Active Directory environment. At the office we have about 50 users. And it runs like a charm. Nextcloud to me is not a replace to google drive or one drive per say. It seems more comparable to something like office 365 and google docs. While FileCloud really is only a file sharing platform.
When google announced that the infinite storage for photos is over, my family started to cry because their phones are always full and google kept asking them to buy more storage. At this point I decided to start a family nextcloud on a raspberry pi4 with 8TB of attached storage (in a NAS with iscsi to the pi). A few months ago the pi was upgraded to a zimaboard 832, it is waaay faster, have HW decode for videos in the memories app, just an awesome little device to host your own family sized infra.
@@luki8806 I was going the same route basically, started with a Pi, went to a Synology DS220 and now I'm running a Fujitsu Esprimo with an i5 7500. The performance increase each step along the way has just been baffling. Especially since I swapped my HDDs to SSD exclusively. Right now, it seems to have the same speed as all the other big tech solutions.
What i recommend is synology all the way (synology drive). It not only adds a drive replacement but so much more. If i couldn't use synology i probably would be nextcloud.
Hey chuck thankyou so much for making this video, few days ago i started learning cloud and got the basics cleared, i was wondering the same days if we can host our own cloud... and this video came out on time! We are greatful to have someone like you who teaches the things in depth. Thanks again. I have one request towards you: can you please teach how to build our own OS without linux or unix, cuz every video out there teaches modifying linux on the name of making an OS, we believe in you😊
I think it'd be great if you could also give a cost comparison of the different options, including google drive. Since that would be the major factor in selecting any of these
yeah good point, given the filecloud EC2 is $0.046/hour, that'd come out to be around $30ish a month of just EC2 and then s3 store, read, write costs on top (which may not be much but still), comparing that to Google Drive for example which is about $10 a month for 2 TB, I am not sure if this method will save costs for an average user. Still good for learning.
@@beauchifulbaby8145 self hosting will always be more expensive if you factor in redundancy, high availability and internet speed. The whole point is not to save money but take control of your data and factor out 3rd parties.
With the 1 year license for community, are you required to get a new license each year? Does it cost if so? For my homelab/sharing I'd like to have a set and forget setup if possible.
First, i wanna said that I really love your content, but you go too fast for me (i don't know if I'm the only one with this feeling), I would appreciate it if you can slow down when explain and show how you do it! Keep going, always perfect content
I wish you also did seafile, it is open source, its core is written in C so it is more performant than others. I am using it for 2 years now and i approve.
@@itslordvamp that i don't know about, i'm using single instance (like the installations on this video) for quite some time, and having no problems so far...
I‘ve been a Linux user for almost twenty years, but this was totally confusing. Where did you explain in simple terms how to setup Nextcloud on a spare machine?
This is a sponsored video on filecloud, nextcloud was simply mentioned at the end as a comparison since more people are familiar with nextcloud. If you want to set up nextcloud on bare metal, nextcloud provides their own documentation which you should be able to follow step-by-step!
It is nice to see the enterprise feature set with File Cloud. I know that the features you mentioned here are all part and parcel of OneDrive and SharePoint, within a Microsoft 365 Enterprise plan. It is nice to see a self hosted alternative with those features. I have recommended Nextcloud to a lot of folks looking for a self-hosted solution. I love Nextcloud, but they are more of a drop in alternative to Google Workspace than a replacement for Microsoft 365 for Enterprise. Why? Well, Google is very popular among SMMEs (Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises) and it is excellent at that. There are a ton of large scale Enterprise features that are lacking. Same with Nextcloud.
Thanks for the video. To be honest I watched it all for entertainment and learning. Now I'm going back to what I need to create my own cloud. Love to learn with your videos. Now for that coffee break.
Used File Cloud for a year and loved it but now I'm past the 1st year free. Wish they had a license for smaller users so I could continue to use it. 20 users minimum at $6 a month is too much for me and the family. Guess I will switch over to Next Cloud and see how they compare. Thanks for all the videos!
40 minutes on Filecloud and only 5 on Next Cloud? I get the video is sponsored by Filecloud but wouldve been better just making the entire video on filecloud, which it basically was anyways. It feels like Next Cloud was shoved in the end just so this wasnt a full informercial for the sponsor.
The video was about building a cloud. The platform is irrelevant but if a company wants to pay him to demonstrate on theirs, I'm all for it. They paid for us to learn this for nothing.
I was following your guide step by step and got to the part where I would login into the Filecloud through the web browser. It accepts the login as "admin" and the password as but then it just goes to login, there is this spinning circle animation and it gets stuck there... forever. I tried on various machines, and on various networks. It just is stuck forever. I stopped the instance, and I will try again later, but so far... not great.
I still have this issue. The Dev Tools console shows that it doesn't like the HTTPS cert, but I have no clue how to get past that issue. I logged into the box via ssh and tried an apt update and upgrade, and it updated FileCloud, but didn't resolve the issue. Short of rolling up my sleeves and getting into Apache configs to add a self signed cert, I'm not sure how this gets fixed.
you can ssh your instance into the location "/var/www/html/config" and "sudo nano cloudconfig.php" and change =>define(“TONIDOCLOUD_SECURE_COOKIE”, 1) from 1 to 0.
Facts I mean all the reasons he gave for not liking gdrive and such are the same for Amazon plus I thought we were setting up a sever from the pc not a virtual machine
im a huge fan ive watched you alot i will say your one of my favorite. i love howypu make your videos fun and energetic your one of the more better IT tech youtubers
All right, Chuck! I'm currently testing several cloud solutions for my homelab and didn't know about filecloud. However, I can't figure out if renewing the free license after the 1st year is still...free. Does anyone know more? Thanks
Right? I clicked on the video thinking it was about NAS. I guess the sponsored app is a closed source as well. What is the use of avoid big Corp like Google & then giving your data to the sponsor here?
I hate coffee. Can I still be in IT? Chuck simplifies this so perfectly that even a crayon-eating jarhead such as myself can understand it. Thanks Chuck!
Ok, but look at that coffee maker. What is that? I didn't know I wanted it until I saw it in action. And, now I need it in my life. When I make coffee, I want people around me to think I might be on to the next big breakthrough in science or whatever.
That green monitor with the motion flicker black scroll is epilepsy inducing and even takes focus away from the content you're presenting because it is so overpowering. I haven't finished the video yet, just letting you know from the watch-ability perspective. Great content, this video has made me purchase this device.
I had so many issues with running NextCloud through a docker image that I had to switch to FileCloud since your video explains everything so well. Please do a video on NextCloud and how to setup an external drive to it when running NextCloud through a docker image! It'd be great cause the community edition for FileCloud is only for a year :/
@9:20, the price of the T2.Medium instance preloaded with FileCloud is $0.46/Hr... assuming you use it for a full year (not counting network ingress; FW or other paid services) costs 0.046×24×365.25 = $403.24... If you deploy SeaFile on AWS using S3 as your storage, it will be a bit cheaper - 8TB storage will be about $360/yr...
I did not know that many companies loved to use windows for servers, but, if your a non tech startup and you cant afford an IT guy, I can see why being able to run server software for free on windows would be a good selling point
Thank you so much Chuck! I learned a lot in a short period of time. You are an inspiration Time to start setting up the home lab. I lihe both clouds. I wish I knew all of this before i went on the roller coaster ride with the single bay My Cloud gen 1. This is exactly what I want to cut the cord. Again thanks a lot for the explicit directives.
IMPORTANT: If you're using XAMPP in Windows for any purpose (as I do for running local environment installations of WordPress) DO NOT install the FileCloud program before backing up everything. That thing will destroy anything that you have in your XAMPP's folder, and I don't know what exactly happened, but even when I chose a different installation folder, it still messed up with my main XAMPP, which was frustrating. If I didn't keep daily backups, that would have taken me lots of days behind in terms of work and changes that I am doing in my test environments. Thank you for another great guide!
i got to the glorious 20 minute mark with perfection, went for a coffee break.... when i got back my admin log for filecloud stopped working trying to trouble shoot it is making me think i should start over again, but if i actually trouble shoot this it will make me a better... troubleshooter but im wasting so much time . nice project hope i'll be able to finish this and put it on my resume. btw im on a Mac
This is incredibly empowering, thank you so much Chuck! Fun fact, the 'd' at the end of e.g. cloudflared usually means it's a Daemon, in the *NIX sense 😈.Essentially, running as a service for the Windows heads.
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Now you can deploy and run your own hyper-secure file sharing platform, by downloading FileCloud’s Community Edition. Visit ntck.co/filecloud and download FileCloud Community Edition as a self-hosted solution, on your Windows or Linux servers or preferred IaaS provider (AWS, Azure). (no code required)
In this video, NetworkChuck will walk you through how to create your own cloud, either at home, on-prem or in the cloud! NetworkChuck demos the setup of FileCloud and Nextcloud, two excellent dropbox, google drive and microsoft one drive replacements. These are great options for both personal and business.
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FileCloud AWS: ntck.co/3CyTYz4
AWS IAM User Policy: ntck.co/3PkKPlj
FileCloud Docker install: ntck.co/3pckT0A
FileCloud Linux Install: ntck.co/42OypoM
NextCloud Install: ntck.co/44694HZ
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**Sponsored by Filecloud
0:00 ⏩ Intro
1:43 ⏩ What do you need?
3:57 ⏩ What is FileCloud?
6:30 ⏩ the SETUP: FileCloud on AWS
12:44 ⏩ Amazon S3 Setup with FileCloud
23:30 ⏩ the SETUP: On-Prem FileCloud
28:43 ⏩ Adding an External Hard Drive to FileCloud
32:13 ⏩ Setting up a Domain Name and SSL for FileCloud
38:18 ⏩ Mounting a Remote Share in FileCloud
41:58 ⏩ the SETUP: NextCloud
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PLEASE! Chuck I need to know what coffee brewer that is????
Bro what is your laptop model. Can you please tell me
:3 Yeah, a great way to try to sell some personal cloud systems, especially with the Restrict Act for Americans (I was born and raised in infamous Miami, FL, USA, and thankfully I left all three places). :3
@NetworkChuck could you please update your chrome browser 🎉
Your ability to explain things in a relaxing and fun way makes IT look less intimidating. I feel like a kid playing a video game, watching a guide on how to beat the level rather than watching a 'Death by Powerpoint' presentation. Thank you fellow systems administrator!
@anthonydowney3109 as soon as I read your comment I was like, "Yes! he's right @NetworkChuck does make it feel like I'm getting some quick guide. I SO hate PowerPoint and just want to see it in action. He does such an amazing job at giving enough details and making it seem like a quest v/s a presentation.
Yeah exactly! It's basically Mark Rober's Super Mario Effect in action, which is very helpful for these types of things!
@@zinsy23 VSauce Michael said once upon a time that "the best way to teach is to educate someone without them realizing they are being educated" (not an exact quote). I agree 100% with Mark Rober's advice on learning and I cant wait to see more from NetworkChuck and his team!
throwning shell commands at peeps is not really explaining... meh...
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You are the best! I started seeing your videos when I was starting in IT as a HelpDesk. Now I am working as a Cloud Engineer and before as a sysadmin. You teached me a lot and the best is that you make the curiosity grows for all the technologies you show in your videos. Greetings from Argentina!
@@bompo328 5 months later... any luck?
next video: build your own internet from scratch
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Lol 😂
Please do 🎉
Attention seeker. You literally do this comment to get likes. Because you haven't even watched the ful video
It's pretty easy actually, all you got to do is setup multiple intranets and then just wire them up together
I am on IT for 20 years and your way to explain things are very simple..
duhh
Minor change, always apply minimal permission with AWS IAM. For the EC2 instance's role: vs S3:* for resources, actually just give it the bucket name. You might need to do two resources, one bucket name, the other bucket name/*. This will limit access to only that bucket which is best practice for security 😉.
do we have to provide our credit and debit card information ?? is it a neccesity ?on aws and other cloud platforms
@@chillvibes71 there are free tiers that will allow you to use *some* resources without charging but yes, you will always need a form of payment on file.
@@chillvibes71 sure because they are going send you a Bill for the service 😂
@@user-kf4gt7bo2k It is free for 750 hours, if you use the micro version, which he mentions in the video
I also used to be a self-taught programmer before I launched my own software development company.
It's cool that today we can watch such videos for education purposes in RUclips! 👍
You're right 👍
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True!
YTU RUclips University :-) people with degree are jealous of me. lol
I’ll be honest, I watched this all the way to the end attentively. It was very interesting, yet I’m not quite sure what I learnt but I did learn something I’m sure. I have a Synology NAS and I guess that’s my personal Cloud. I guess if I needed another cloud, I can remember Fileshare and probably just remember to come back and rewatch this video as it was amazing.
You’re good with your Synology. File Cloud and nextcloud are more for people who don’t have a NAS or who just want to use their own hardware.
Thanks for watching!
@@NetworkChuck Thanks Chuck!
@@NetworkChuck I'd say Nextcloud has additional features that may be useful even if you are running it off a NAS. My Nextcloud instance has OnlyOffice integration, Memories for a google photo replacement, News for an RSS feed, Notes for Markdown/Rich text note keeping, and a calendar. If you ONLY need file storage, your NAS is plenty, but if you need more, Nextcloud has more.
@@emilymarriott5927 Synology has packages like Photos, Synology Drive and so on for these features.
@@emilymarriott5927 synology selling point is NAS , but for me ithink their selling point is their softwares and case, u can install more apps than nextcloud in synology OS and phone apps included too, for nextcloud I dont see any good phone apps for nextcloud memories to replace google photo.
Thanks for the tutorial, although it's a little long hahaha, maybe you can answer my question. If you recommend buying the office packages, it's because I have problems with them
It depends on how you obtained it, it could be giving you problems
I downloaded it from an unofficial website
then try to obtain them from licensed pages for sale.
Try to start with pages like BNH Software and from there you begin your search
@@markjam55 Exactly start there
Great, but Nextcloud needs it's own video to do it justice. I've never heard of Filecloud before so that's good to know!
No one has. Honestly, this seems like an ad for filecloud. Nextcloud, before that owncloud, will always will be the main go to for stuff like this. Or any other self hosted similar solution.
This video *is* sponsored by filecloud, he mentions it around 1:38!
FileRun should get a shoutout too!
This is just an ad. He throws in NextCloud at the end to give it the air of fairness. Face it, FileCloud paid him to do an ad. What’evs.
@@kurjajuur It very much felt like an infomercial after a while. "No one else does this!" "It's AMAZING!" I found it a little hard to swallow.
Just to add - as I checked the Community Edition, license if FREE for 1 year only. Thanks for this awesome video Chuck!
Do they let you renew or get a new one for free, for another year, like most other home lab type licenses (Sophos UTM, for example, does the same thing)? This is a great model and I wish other companies would do the same. This lets the geeks like me use it in the home lab for free so we learn what it all does and so we can recommend it or support it with other paying customers (win, win).
Hi there, at the end of your year using Community Edition you can renew your key for another year! Making FileCloud Community Edition always free.
Renew free every year
I think u get to renew for free, until it gains popularity and then suddenly, it's paid service
Computers, coffee, chocolate...
Life on planet earth would really be boring without them...
idk how you and your editor do it but you both make this long and drawn-out process actually entertaining to watch and learn. Thank you so much lol keep up the great content
Thank you so much for the AWS walkthrough. I've been through so many AWS and Azure classes that teach you all the terminology and theory and prepare you for the exams - but your guide is so much better because it's way more practical and focused on actually using AWS instead of studying it.
Perfect timing, Chuck! I set up my own proxmox server and now I can host this!
Omg chuck! You never fail to amaze me with your knowledge and with your teaching ability. You have been the backbone of my education in IT and in cybersecurity. Thank you for all your content. You should have your own networking and cybersecurity boot camp! I am going to attempt to try this setup myself. You inspire me to keep reaching and growing!
You are literally the Peter McKinnon of IT. The enthusiasm, production value, knowledge, and most importantly coffee. I love it. Keep it up man.
My thought as well
I have not owned a computer for over 10 years! now I have one, I found myself to be incredibly out of date with basic computer use. So happy to come across your channel which mixes the perfect blend of advanced computer use and easy watching. Love your stuff bro, don't stop the videos anytime soon!
Hey Chuck! Appreciated for all your time and another amazing video. Additional info: if you are trying to set this up outside of "us-east-1" region, don't forget to add "S3 Region" parameter for your s3 bucket in FileCloud settings or else it keeps giving error. Greetings from Turkey!
Hero!
THANK YOU, i had to change it from blank to "us-west-1" which is where i have my bucket on.
No way you release this video as soon as I was thinking I needed this due to the lack of storage on my phone and me not wanting to pay iCloud money for more storage to back up my 9,000 photos LOL. Big ups to you and love the content!
it is less headache to just pay for the icloud and not have to worry about your uptime and inconsistent performance, expanding storage etc..
@@guacfiend I have a client that has used all icloud storage that they are allowed to buy. I think I may have to look into these options
now you pay ec2 of amazon XD
@@guacfiend fair point, I’m just an IT guy looking to complicate his life a little more to learn more if I’m honest 😂 learn by doing. But yeah, I likely will end up getting a TB of iCloud storage
This is an excellent introduction to self-hosting your data and owning things, but I think mentioning the risks is important. At least about backing up those data especially if you're self-hosting. Most people who see this video are likely to know about 3-2-1 backup but there will be some people that do this for the first time. If you can do a walk-through of FileCould would be amazing. I use NextCloud but its slow at times and FileCloud looks like a good replacement option.
Yes, like I don’t understand a thing. Maybe you can recommend some channel or source of information for those who knew ?
I think enabling backup for S3 bucket should be simple only
Thank you so much! Since 2 weeks Im contemplating on switching from dropbox to self-hosted alternatives and this video sealed the deal!
No idea how your channel got on my feed, but your videos are so clear and concise with a little bit of Dad humor it is awesome, thank you very much and keep it up.
Had to pause @1:02 to come and comment. Your production value is off the hook and instantly spoke to me directly. You got some magic sauce dude, I'm looking forward to the rest of the video!
Thank you for covering securing the FileCloud setup with SSL - most YT videos reviews stop just before that point. Keep up the great work :)
I've been running Nextcloud on my unraid server for a year now, and its been so incredibly unreliable that I'm probably just going to rebuild my little dell optiplex with 2 2tb drives, and build it as a Filecloud server now.
Thanks for posting!
45:00 You can map Nextcloud as a network drive in windows and linux if that's what you mean. There is also the nextcloud client that automatically syncs changes locally.
I came for the CS talk and when he mentioned Ethiopian coffee, i just kept watching, It's the best coffee
Nice range of options. Another on-prem solution is using a NAS. Synology especially offer a range that is insanely powerful, you can go with a small unit for SOHO all the way up to rack mount units for serious hosting, they offer a suite of apps to support your own cloud, and smaller boxes are very energy efficient which old spare hardware won't be. It is a nice inbetween of having complete control of your data, with the availability and reliability of commercial solutions like OneDrive, including hardware support and every feature (if your unit hardware supports it) is free forever. They can run VMs, websites, network services like DNS and DHCP, CCTV NVR, Docker, media center, and so much more.
This is basically what I want to create for my friends and I, an online service that I host that can replace all the things in our lives like Netflix and Dropbox and all that stuff. I just want a location where I and all of my friends can access and upload our data anywhere and it's always available to us in one convenient spot. I have no idea how to do that but hopefully the rest of this video will give me some pointers lol
"for my friends and I"* --->> for my friends and 'ME'
Hey SalvagePro. It's "this animated object and it's compatriots".
@@Paraic-r100 "SalvagePro" 🤔🤨 . . . "this animated object and it's compatriots"🤔🤨
@@savagepro9060no.
for media use Jellyfin
A fun video you would do an amazing job with would be building a home/small business on-prem security system. Including security cams, smart home features with Home Assistant, and whatever else you can think of! Emphasis on PRIVACY and SECURITY. You always do a great job and we appreciate your awesome content!
all that AWS set up stuff is super cool i gotta admit, but i can't help thinking - if we are trying to move away from google drive / dropbox etc because we want to own+control our data, how is it useful to simply have it hosted on amazon's servers/drives instead of google's or dropbox's?
Man oh man! You sir are very valuable to me. You just gave me all the info and the pep to start my own company's cloud and spared me major headaches to deal with 13 collaborators. I hope my thank you reaches you!
I use Sybology. Bought myself 2x 20TB drives to use in RAID1. One-time payment for the gear, get to use my NAS as I would Dropbox as the Synopogy Drive App offers a Sync option. FTP, secure sharing, web UI from anywhere. It truly is great. I use it every day!
You might be the only person in history to describe AWS as "fun".
4:55
EFS - one of many ambiguous (and sometimes umbrella) acronyms in the IT field.
Enterprise File Sharing (Solution)
Encrypting File System
Elastic File System (when pertaining the cloud via Amazon, well AWS, mentioned in the video), etc.
😵💫
22:31
Excitement _click that_ 😃
43:41-43:52
Install the installer. Then the installer attempts other installations by installing the other installers. 😂
45:49
Looks pretty much similar to DropBox to me unless their interface has changed dramatically since.
46:58
I used the Edward Snowden recommended Spider Oak for file sharing. Not telling you what I am using...yet.
For filecloud it says 1 year free license, I haven't done everything yet but does that mean it's only good for a year? Please educate me
Watching your video from beginning to end, pausing hundreds of times, I was able to create a step-by-step guide from start to finish. I am familiar with AWS and I am going to build my own cloud storage. I am your biggest fan; I regularly watch your videos and have learned more than ever. I wish I could meet you in person. You have changed my professional life; I thought it was impossible.
In September 2022, I started as an IT support, and now I am working as a Network Security Specialist in a government office. I don't know how many people's lives have been changed because of your knowledge sharing, but you have definitely changed mine.
After this project I will be working on building my own AI and I am full confident that I can do it watching your video.
Thank you, Bernard Hackwell.
I love the humour you show in this tutorial, it gives me such a good vibe - really enjoyable! Thanks for that and all the best
This video bro, i would give you and that moustache a big fat kiss if i could through the screen. You gave me a solution to a problem ive been facing for a while. Thanks fam, now i got a really good way to do this project for family
I have to say I really like Nextcloud. I've been using it in my home lab and deployed it at work too. Runs really great and integrates well in an Active Directory environment. At the office we have about 50 users. And it runs like a charm. Nextcloud to me is not a replace to google drive or one drive per say. It seems more comparable to something like office 365 and google docs. While FileCloud really is only a file sharing platform.
When google announced that the infinite storage for photos is over, my family started to cry because their phones are always full and google kept asking them to buy more storage. At this point I decided to start a family nextcloud on a raspberry pi4 with 8TB of attached storage (in a NAS with iscsi to the pi). A few months ago the pi was upgraded to a zimaboard 832, it is waaay faster, have HW decode for videos in the memories app, just an awesome little device to host your own family sized infra.
@@luki8806 I was going the same route basically, started with a Pi, went to a Synology DS220 and now I'm running a Fujitsu Esprimo with an i5 7500. The performance increase each step along the way has just been baffling. Especially since I swapped my HDDs to SSD exclusively. Right now, it seems to have the same speed as all the other big tech solutions.
Amazing content, you have such a great calm way of explaining everything and dumbing it down for anyone to use. Thank you!
What i recommend is synology all the way (synology drive). It not only adds a drive replacement but so much more. If i couldn't use synology i probably would be nextcloud.
I don't usually comment, but when i do it is awesome stuff like this. Sir, hats off, your content is legendary.
I’m here for the nextcloud install. And learned a lot about filecloud. Please make an updated self hosted, remote access nextcloud video 🙏🏻
Hey chuck thankyou so much for making this video, few days ago i started learning cloud and got the basics cleared, i was wondering the same days if we can host our own cloud... and this video came out on time! We are greatful to have someone like you who teaches the things in depth. Thanks again.
I have one request towards you: can you please teach how to build our own OS without linux or unix, cuz every video out there teaches modifying linux on the name of making an OS, we believe in you😊
I think it'd be great if you could also give a cost comparison of the different options, including google drive. Since that would be the major factor in selecting any of these
yeah good point, given the filecloud EC2 is $0.046/hour, that'd come out to be around $30ish a month of just EC2 and then s3 store, read, write costs on top (which may not be much but still), comparing that to Google Drive for example which is about $10 a month for 2 TB, I am not sure if this method will save costs for an average user. Still good for learning.
@@beauchifulbaby8145 self hosting will always be more expensive if you factor in redundancy, high availability and internet speed. The whole point is not to save money but take control of your data and factor out 3rd parties.
With the 1 year license for community, are you required to get a new license each year? Does it cost if so? For my homelab/sharing I'd like to have a set and forget setup if possible.
Important to note that this is a 1-year free license. Great video
Hi there, after 1 year of using Community Edition, you can renew your key for another year! Making FileCloud Community Edition free indefinitely.
I know this is a few months old but THANK YOU!!! Got this set up on prem with ubuntu flawlessly!
First, i wanna said that I really love your content, but you go too fast for me (i don't know if I'm the only one with this feeling), I would appreciate it if you can slow down when explain and show how you do it!
Keep going, always perfect content
maybe he needs to lay off the coffee...
You can always change the playback speed to whatever works, click the gear icon and then playback speed, try 0.75
LOL
I wish you also did seafile, it is open source, its core is written in C so it is more performant than others. I am using it for 2 years now and i approve.
seafile still has so many issues, on multiple instances I had my install fail to serve/keep files properly
@@itslordvamp that i don't know about, i'm using single instance (like the installations on this video) for quite some time, and having no problems so far...
I‘ve been a Linux user for almost twenty years, but this was totally confusing. Where did you explain in simple terms how to setup Nextcloud on a spare machine?
This is a sponsored video on filecloud, nextcloud was simply mentioned at the end as a comparison since more people are familiar with nextcloud. If you want to set up nextcloud on bare metal, nextcloud provides their own documentation which you should be able to follow step-by-step!
Just found this video and I am very impressed by both the data provided and how it wS presented.
This is so great because it has context and reality. Would love to see more. you are awesome !!!
I wonder why Chuck is still using Lastpass after everything they been through
Little funfact in Germany many compnays use Nextcloud even the big ones.
It is nice to see the enterprise feature set with File Cloud. I know that the features you mentioned here are all part and parcel of OneDrive and SharePoint, within a Microsoft 365 Enterprise plan. It is nice to see a self hosted alternative with those features.
I have recommended Nextcloud to a lot of folks looking for a self-hosted solution. I love Nextcloud, but they are more of a drop in alternative to Google Workspace than a replacement for Microsoft 365 for Enterprise. Why? Well, Google is very popular among SMMEs (Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises) and it is excellent at that. There are a ton of large scale Enterprise features that are lacking. Same with Nextcloud.
SharePoint (and the wrapper they slapped together & called it OneDrive) 🤮
Thanks for the video. To be honest I watched it all for entertainment and learning. Now I'm going back to what I need to create my own cloud. Love to learn with your videos. Now for that coffee break.
Used File Cloud for a year and loved it but now I'm past the 1st year free. Wish they had a license for smaller users so I could continue to use it. 20 users minimum at $6 a month is too much for me and the family. Guess I will switch over to Next Cloud and see how they compare. Thanks for all the videos!
Hey, how its going with next cloud after 1 year of file cloud. What are the pros and cons?
40 minutes on Filecloud and only 5 on Next Cloud? I get the video is sponsored by Filecloud but wouldve been better just making the entire video on filecloud, which it basically was anyways. It feels like Next Cloud was shoved in the end just so this wasnt a full informercial for the sponsor.
The video was about building a cloud. The platform is irrelevant but if a company wants to pay him to demonstrate on theirs, I'm all for it. They paid for us to learn this for nothing.
I was following your guide step by step and got to the part where I would login into the Filecloud through the web browser. It accepts the login as "admin" and the password as but then it just goes to login, there is this spinning circle animation and it gets stuck there... forever. I tried on various machines, and on various networks. It just is stuck forever. I stopped the instance, and I will try again later, but so far... not great.
im having the same problem. must be something with the servers today.
also today ..@@Taytayracer60
I still have this issue. The Dev Tools console shows that it doesn't like the HTTPS cert, but I have no clue how to get past that issue. I logged into the box via ssh and tried an apt update and upgrade, and it updated FileCloud, but didn't resolve the issue. Short of rolling up my sleeves and getting into Apache configs to add a self signed cert, I'm not sure how this gets fixed.
you can ssh your instance into the location "/var/www/html/config" and "sudo nano cloudconfig.php" and change =>define(“TONIDOCLOUD_SECURE_COOKIE”, 1) from 1 to 0.
did you all maybe found something about this im having the same problem
would amazon still have access to snoop into your content,since it’s on there servers???😤😫😢
If they wanted to maybe but they would get really bad publicity if so
Facts I mean all the reasons he gave for not liking gdrive and such are the same for Amazon plus I thought we were setting up a sever from the pc not a virtual machine
im a huge fan ive watched you alot i will say your one of my favorite. i love howypu make your videos fun and energetic your one of the more better IT tech youtubers
overdosing on caffeine after all the coffee breaks 😵💫great vid! super easy to follow :)
All right, Chuck! I'm currently testing several cloud solutions for my homelab and didn't know about filecloud.
However, I can't figure out if renewing the free license after the 1st year is still...free.
Does anyone know more?
Thanks
Hi there, after 1 year of using Community Edition, you can renew your key for another year! Making FileCloud Community Edition free indefinitely.
What About Nas
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Right? I clicked on the video thinking it was about NAS. I guess the sponsored app is a closed source as well. What is the use of avoid big Corp like Google & then giving your data to the sponsor here?
This FileCloud thing is sussy and not even FOSS. Nextcloud is an obvious choice.
I'm in NOVA too! Love your videos and the way you present the information! Keep up the great work!
I don't even want to self-host but I watched your video anyway because of your glorious beard and engaging presenting style.
nextloud is enterprise lol
2:17 "You probably won't see an enterprise company using NextCloud" - actually we do use it in our company ;)
The dedication to coffee explains the quickness of these helpful video's. Thnx
I hate coffee. Can I still be in IT?
Chuck simplifies this so perfectly that even a crayon-eating jarhead such as myself can understand it. Thanks Chuck!
Ok, but look at that coffee maker. What is that? I didn't know I wanted it until I saw it in action. And, now I need it in my life. When I make coffee, I want people around me to think I might be on to the next big breakthrough in science or whatever.
That green monitor with the motion flicker black scroll is epilepsy inducing and even takes focus away from the content you're presenting because it is so overpowering. I haven't finished the video yet, just letting you know from the watch-ability perspective. Great content, this video has made me purchase this device.
chuck, you are the one. best IT videos on youtube
I had so many issues with running NextCloud through a docker image that I had to switch to FileCloud since your video explains everything so well. Please do a video on NextCloud and how to setup an external drive to it when running NextCloud through a docker image! It'd be great cause the community edition for FileCloud is only for a year :/
I LOVE how you explain things, this is so enjoyable, thank you for your work! I'm building a home cloud :3
you’re very smart and articulate fella, def earned a sub!
Amazing tutorial. Learned a lot and I was able to host filecloud on AWS! Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together for the community.
Def gotta rewatch a few times. Awesome video. Happy I found this page.
@9:20, the price of the T2.Medium instance preloaded with FileCloud is $0.46/Hr... assuming you use it for a full year (not counting network ingress; FW or other paid services) costs 0.046×24×365.25 = $403.24...
If you deploy SeaFile on AWS using S3 as your storage, it will be a bit cheaper - 8TB storage will be about $360/yr...
You are the best network chuck, I have learned a lot from your channel. Thank you for your amazing videos :)
I love watching your content! You're so knowledgeable and interesting to watch! Thank you.
I like this guy. He is funny and strait to the point.
i am 12 yrs old the things explain to me are {really} simple and fun to learn
What a machine @NetworkChuck! Thx for the video, it was very helpful!
I did not know that many companies loved to use windows for servers, but, if your a non tech startup and you cant afford an IT guy, I can see why being able to run server software for free on windows would be a good selling point
You are awesome dude, you video always great one, my best like your video is Raspberry pi router for travelling one.
Thank you so much Chuck! I learned a lot in a short period of time. You are an inspiration Time to start setting up the home lab. I lihe both clouds. I wish I knew all of this before i went on the roller coaster ride with the single bay My Cloud gen 1. This is exactly what I want to cut the cord. Again thanks a lot for the explicit directives.
You are so awesome, Chuck! Keep up the fabulous work and knowledge-share :)!
IMPORTANT: If you're using XAMPP in Windows for any purpose (as I do for running local environment installations of WordPress) DO NOT install the FileCloud program before backing up everything. That thing will destroy anything that you have in your XAMPP's folder, and I don't know what exactly happened, but even when I chose a different installation folder, it still messed up with my main XAMPP, which was frustrating. If I didn't keep daily backups, that would have taken me lots of days behind in terms of work and changes that I am doing in my test environments.
Thank you for another great guide!
this is great. I help a small Christian school here in Saipan and can see how this will help with document storage and backup for critical records.
i got to the glorious 20 minute mark with perfection, went for a coffee break.... when i got back my admin log for filecloud stopped working trying to trouble shoot it is making me think i should start over again, but if i actually trouble shoot this it will make me a better... troubleshooter but im wasting so much time . nice project hope i'll be able to finish this and put it on my resume. btw im on a Mac
This is incredibly empowering, thank you so much Chuck! Fun fact, the 'd' at the end of e.g. cloudflared usually means it's a Daemon, in the *NIX sense 😈.Essentially, running as a service for the Windows heads.
got some issues with DNS provider, but finally made it work
THX Chuck!
how did fix it ?
@@Avisek-Nandi DNS provider needed some time to change name servers - I just waited
@@marekzynek2633 o thanks 👍🏼
Btw did you use t2.micro ?
I loved every second! I would love more long videos like this (or at least 2 part videos)
if he was my university prof I wouldnt miss a single day of classes, workshops or tutorials.
This is super cool! I was able to set it up on prem at my house in less than an hour.