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> NextCloud (stuck in maintenance mode again?)

The frustrating thing is that basically everyone who self hosts Nextcloud will know exactly what you're talking about, and the solution is generally quite simple, and yet the docs for this problem are terrible, scattered, out of date, and mostly just link to old GitHub issues that don't directly address the problem until you get to some comment half way down.

It's a terrible user experience - seriously, point an LLM at it for a few hours to write the first draft of a "So you're stuck in maintenance mode" page, get it reviewed by the community, publish. Immediate quality of life improvement for everyone struggling to get started self hosting it.

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As a counterpoint, I’m not sure what everybody is doing to their Nextcloud installs. Many people have problems so I believe they are real, but I’m not sure where I’ve gone so right.

Right now I use Docker compose, with the major version pinned so it doesn’t surprise me. I verify app compatibility before changing that major version.

I use PostgreSQL as the DB.

I've never had real problems with it, and it wasn't for lack of trying.

I've been using Nextcloud since it forked from OwnCloud, and I was running OwnCloud before that. It was on a NAS with 64MB RAM and a 500MHz CPU at one point.

I've run it bare metal, with different Linux distros, on FreeBSD, in VMs, in LXC containers, in Docker containers, with different PHP versions, with different web servers, with different DBs, on terrible hardware, on powerful hardware, more. So many combinations.

I think it's because I am also a long time fan but kept the same system running. But generally it's 1 occ command and the thing is alive again. Always did wonder why the container doesn't run that command... Maybe the AIO container does.

Is this something that happens down the road? I've had nextcloud for probably 6 months now and while technically I've had a couple problems, they were self induced. I haven't heard of/seen maintenance mode.

I think it is happening less and less, it was more in the older days. I'm still on very old install (from somewhere barely after the OwnCloud split), so I saw some issues.

Of course, just before I was ready to wipe it all and start with the AIO container my partner started intensively using the calendar (switching from paper, finally!) So I need to spend some time with it and migrate properly without her having any downsides. When I do I will also set up EuroOffice and experiment with that. I'm rather looking forward to that. In that sense it's a real "lab" :)

Yes, I've been running it for about two years and it happened twice near the start due to automatic updates. In each case it was a couple of occ commands to clear it, but finding the command took quite a while.

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