Looking for a Nextcloud replacement

Nextcloud and PHP again # I've been running Nextcloud since years. It works, my family uses it, contacts/calendar sync fine, for the photos I've migrated to Immich recently. WebDAV is there when I need it. And yet, every few months I get this itch : "surely there's something more modern than a giant PHP monolith in 2026 ?" So this time I actually took a weekend to look for a replacement. Short version : there isn't one, not really. Long version below. OxiCloud : cool idea, rust promises, painful reality ... # OxiCloud catched my eye because it's written in Rust. On paper this ticks all the boxes I want : modern language, single binary, presumably lighter than a full PHP + Apache/Nginx + MariaDB stack. Reality on FreeBSD was a lot less fun. Compiling it took forever. And I mean forever, not "a few minutes longer than expected". My little N100 box chewed through dependencies for what felt like hours before I even got a binary out of it. Rust compile times on modest hardware are already…