Do you recommend using the PHP installer or Docker? I don't know that much about Docker, but shouldn't be that hard.

What's the best method to install, maintain and highly possible migrate later?

So here's the first piece of news:
We have our line of Storage Share products that are based on Nextcloud. One of the biggest criticisms when we launched them was that it wasn't possible to use your own domain. But now we are running a beta test for using domains of your choice. To participate in the beta, you need to have a Storage Share package. Then just pick a domain that you want, set up a CNAME record for it, and write us a quick support ticket via the admin interface (konsoleH). Our team will let you know when the domain is active.

There's more info on Storage Share in our wiki.

Do you guys encrypt these Files?

What does your setup look like?

Can any one say what is the most perfect and optimal way to install Nextcloud on Ubuntu - VPS?.

I was previously used snap to install Nextcloud, but that seems not very well working.

So, please give any guidelines to install & optimise the Nextcloud Vps.

Spec am on:
1c,
2GB Ram,
512GB Stoarge.

https://www.midori-browser.org/2020/04/08/midori-astian-cloud-storage-collaborative-meeting-browsing/

Notes:
a. Service is free, but donations by the Midori project appreciated ! Therefore I used the term 'donationware' in the title.
b. Collabora, Video conferencing included.
c. Like in previous cases, I am posting the link to the blog post from where you can find the registration link.

I am a customer of @AnthonySmith, trying to setup nextcloud on 'UK STORAGE KVM 4GB' plan.
I have no idea what I am doing wrong but I can't find what's causing my performance to drop as far as the machine going unusable. I am usually far from asking for help on internet forums but I am literally lost on this. The symptoms are basically like this: The machine runs great after a clean boot, nextcloud is smooth (not expecting any miracles here really), ssh works fine, yum/dnf updates are going OK. I leave it running unattended in this state for some time (eg. 10-15hours). After this time when I try to login to the nextcloud interface - sometimes the login page won't even load or it'll take few good minutes to even get page title. I try to login via SSH to the machine - this also hangs for few good minutes, sometimes even refuses to connect. Once I am in the session - typing is very laggy (similar to what you'd see if you had really high latency but mine is around 30-35ms). I expect that the TOP or IOTOP would show me that something is really busy at this point and find the reason for my poor performance but instead:

%Cpu(s): 0,0 us, 0,3 sy, 0,0 ni, 96,7 id, 0,0 wa, 0,7 hi, 1,0 si, 1,3 st
MiB Mem : 3781,0 total, 2810,0 free, 531,7 used, 439,4 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 4072,0 total, 4072,0 free, 0,0 used. 3002,3 avail Mem

IOTOP didn't show me anything useful, the sql database wrote ~8MBs to the disk after dozen of minutes which I don't consider dramatic load (maybe I am wrong?).

The current setup is CentOS8, NGINX, PHP-FPM, MariaDB - all from the official+epel repos, Nextcloud version is 17.0.2 - current stable.
I currently didn't setup any cache within nextcloud so it'd be easier to pinpoint issues. Previews generation is limited to 100x100 to lower the load, most apps from nextcloud are disabled.

During last few days I have also tried CentOS7 with rh-php72, MariaDB from the official MariaDB repo, nextcloud with apcu,opcache and redis enabled - but the results were all similar.

From my observation it looks like if everything was going to 'sleep' after some unknown time and I need to wait really long to wake them up. Basically, once I get to the nextcloud page and login - it usually starts to work more or less OK for some time. Similarily - once I wait long enough to get to the machine via SSH - the next login is much faster, same for launching TOP etc.

I have noticed that dnf background service would take a lot of time on CPU and IO so I have disabled the dnf-makecache timer and service - this also didn't help. The nextcloud instance itself is used by me and another member of the family. The data on it is rarely changed.

I had at least one case where once the machine entered this poor performance state I couldn't even reboot it properly - the shutdown took really long and after that - the boot hanged on 'Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) ....'. I forced reboot via the VPS panel and then it worked really smooth for around ~15 hours after which it started to misbehave again

I am really lost on this so I am kindly asking for any help. Also - I want to make it clear that @AnthonySmith services are really great, I own few other KVMs from his offer and also shared web hosting and they are all great. His service is of top quality and I can't say any bad word about Inception Hosting at all. In fact - I have recommended it to my friends. I am quite sure this is some configuration problem on my end that I just seem to be unable to fix.

Thank you

Also, happy new year to everyone