The information in this article was extracted from digitalocean.com Introduction Nextcloud is fork of ownCloud, a file sharing server that permits you to store your personal content, like documents and pictures, in a centralized location, much like Dropbox. The difference with Nextcloud is that all of its features are open-source. It also returns the control and security of your sensitive data back to you, thus eliminating the use of a third-party cloud hosting service. In this tutorial, we will install and configure a Nextcloud instance on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. Prerequisites In order to complete the steps in this guide, you will need the following: A sudo user on your server : You can create a user with sudo privileges by following the Ubuntu 16.04 initial server setup guide . A LAMP stack : Nextcloud requires a web server, a database, and PHP to properly function. Setting up a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) server fulfills all of these requiremen...