Nextcloud Via Infomaniak Hosting

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For a few days I was playing with Day One, the note taking app, after years without touching it and I was playing with the idea of paying for the app. The cost is 38 CHF per year. It used to be cheaper. I think it was around 23-28 CHF rather than 38.

If you have web hosting with Infomaniak then you can have 20 sites and 250 gigabytes of storage. With this deal you can have your principle website for your blog such as I do, and a sub-domain for Nextcloud, Classicpress and other such events.

The point of using Nextcloud in a sub-domain is that Nextcloud is one of the apps that is pre-configured on Infomaniak services. Create the sub-domain, create the user account and within a few minutes you’re self-hosting your own instance of Nextcloud.

The advantage of Nextcloud is that it can be used as a note taking app from any mobile phone or computer OS, hence you have tremendous flexibility, and although you pay more per year, you’re paying for a European web host.

There is a discussion at the moment about digital sovereignty. I don’t like the term. I prefer "independence" or some more neutral term. The concept is simple. At the moment we are becoming too US centric with social and anti-social media, news sites and more. With Infomaniak, among other hosting solutions we are shifting back to a Europe centric solution.

Nextcloud too is a Europe centric solution, with part of it being based in Germany and various European countries.

It’s good to think laterally, and to find solutions that are "local" to our continent. In this case, Europe, as I write this as a European. I’m using Nextcloud now, to write my blog posts and then copy them over to the WordPress blog. I have toyed with migrating to ClassicPress but will decide on this later.