Discontinue our Collabora Online instance #176

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opened 2022-08-12 02:34:59 +00:00 by a · 1 comment

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2022-08-12 02:34:59 +00:00

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We host Collabora Online at office.exozy.me for document editing in Nextcloud. We're currently using a standalone Collabora server installed using an AUR package, but it's very annoying to maintain.

The reason we installed it in the first place is because at the time, Nextcloud's built-in Collabora server was really really slow and I even asked on Reddit about it back when I still had a Reddit account.

I tried updating our standalone Collabora server today by manually updating the very scary PKGBUILD, since the AUR maintainer is MIA, but it took quite a while to get it to build and there were pacnew changes to merge and it just was a lot of pain and it didn't even work in the end!

The much easier route of course is to just use Nextcloud's built-in Collabora server, which shocker, is much faster now!

So in summary, if there are no objections, I will uninstall Collabora, switch Nextcloud to the built-in server, and also remove exoffice from our website and the nginx configs.

We host [Collabora Online](https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/) at office.exozy.me for document editing in Nextcloud. We're currently using a standalone Collabora server installed using an AUR package, but it's very annoying to maintain. The reason we installed it in the first place is because at the time, Nextcloud's built-in Collabora server was really really slow and I even [asked on Reddit about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/NextCloud/comments/n4pwc2/builtin_code_server_vs_standalone_server/) back when I still had a Reddit account. I tried updating our standalone Collabora server today by manually updating the [very scary PKGBUILD](https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=collabora-online-server-nodocker), since the AUR maintainer is MIA, but it took quite a while to get it to build and there were pacnew changes to merge and it just was a lot of pain and it didn't even work in the end! The much easier route of course is to just use Nextcloud's built-in Collabora server, which shocker, is much faster now! So in summary, if there are no objections, I will uninstall Collabora, switch Nextcloud to the built-in server, and also remove exoffice from our website and the nginx configs.

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2022-08-12 03:00:11 +00:00

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I finally got the standalone Collabora server to work again, and it's about the same in terms of performance with the built-in server (which is what I expected anyways), so it's final! exoffice will be discontinued.

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2022-09-08 18:46:23 +00:00

collabora-online-server-nodocker #10