So I want to build a home server to use as a media server, and to back up my photos etc.

I am also currently doing an online course, and happen to spend some time at work as well as at home working on it. I don’t like using Google where I can help it, but I find google docs really useful. So I’m wondering if there’s an open source application that works essentially the same, but I could run off my own server? It would have to be web-based as I use Windows at work and can’t install new programs :/

edit: Thanks everyone for your suggestions! I’ve got quite a few leads to follow now, it should be fun!

    • mhz@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Your comment made me check that, and yeah, those requirements can be extreme for someone like me who look to use it for two pcs and a phone on a 6th gen intel nuc

    • phrogpilot73@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I run the Community Edition of OnlyOffice documents server on my home server in Docker. My server has a Core i77 7700 and 32GB of RAM. And tons of other Docker containers. No issues.

      • Engywuck@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean… My “servers” are a cheap VPS with 2 GB ram and a RPi 4 with 4 GB ram. Doubt any of them would be able to run OOCE decently.

        • phrogpilot73@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I was curious, so I took a look at what it was using. At idle, it sits at 927.4 MB, and 0.1% of my CPU (the 7700 is only a 4 core CPU). I opened and edited a Word document on OnlyOffice (I have it connected using the Nextcloud connector). It spiked to 1GB of RAM, and momentary spikes to 35% of CPU, and then back down to 0.1-0.2% of CPU. I’d say it’s worth trying at least. Worst case scenario, you delete the Docker container if it’s unworkable.

          However, I think the Community Edition is lighter than advertised.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
      1·
      1 year ago

      Those specs seem likely to be extrapolated from the resource usage of their SaaS solution 😳

      Wouldn’t be surprised if it actually ended up needing that though, some game servers for example will happily chomp down 10GB+ of RAM with just two people online doing nothing

      • poVoq@slrpnk.net
        1·
        1 year ago

        Or rather they want to discourage self-hosting in favour of their SaaS.

        But the OO Document server will happily run with about 1gb RAM and small CPU use.

        edit: ah this is about the full OO suite. Well most of that is written in bloated asp.net so no wonder.