Two Nextcloud instances for security? - eviltoast

Hi, finally setting up Nextcloud in an effort to de-Google myself and replace GDrive for good.

I am currently running Nextcloud via Tailscale and that works fine except for when i want to share a file to someone outside of my Tailnet. I have heard of federated Nextcloud but i am not sure that i quite understood the purpose of this or maybe there is a better solution? If i run two instances like that, will i simply be able to share certain files over to that instance for sharing?

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    1 year ago

    I run two nextcloud instances for this exact purpose (set up using this role so it’s not more complex to manage than just one instance).

    Personal instance on home server, shared instance on rented VPS. When I want to share a file/folder I just copy it to the VPS instance and use the “share by link” feature.