https://www.kostikidis.net/tags/nextcloud/Recent content in Nextcloud on kostikidis.netHugoen&copy; 2026 Stefanos KostikidisWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.kostikidis.net/posts/i-tried-to-secure-my-nextcloud/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.kostikidis.net/posts/i-tried-to-secure-my-nextcloud/<p><em>A homelab horror story about an Unraid update, a perfectly fine Nextcloud, and why you should never touch a working system at 10pm.</em></p> <hr> <h2 id="how-it-actually-started" class="relative group">How It Actually Started <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100"><a class="group-hover:text-primary-300 dark:group-hover:text-neutral-700" style="text-decoration-line: none !important;" href="#how-it-actually-started" aria-label="Anchor">#</a></span></h2><p>It started with an Unraid update.</p> <p>I upgraded my Unraid server to version 7.3 — a routine update, didn&rsquo;t think twice about it — and the next thing I knew, Nextcloud wasn&rsquo;t loading. My immediate assumption: something broke in Nextcloud. I had just finished deploying it to my K3s cluster, moved on to other homelab chores, and came back to find it dead.</p>https://www.kostikidis.net/posts/this-blog-exists-because-of-an-unraid-update/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.kostikidis.net/posts/this-blog-exists-because-of-an-unraid-update/<p>It started with a button.</p> <p><strong>Apply Update. 7.3.</strong></p> <p>Routine. Unraid does this all the time. I clicked it, watched the progress bar, saw the success message, and moved on. Didn&rsquo;t think twice.</p> <p>An hour later, Nextcloud was dead.</p> <hr> <ol start="503"> <li>No logs. No obvious reason. I had just deployed Nextcloud to my K3s cluster a few days earlier, moved on to other homelab chores, and came back to a blank error page. My first instinct: <em>something broke in Nextcloud.</em> I never questioned that assumption. I just started digging.</li> </ol> <p>I dug for an entire day.</p>