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You may have to host it yourself to get the features you need. I've often heard universities have lots of old PCs lying around, you may be able to get one of those and run nextcloud on it. (Or just a file server and use LibreOffice). The university probably has their own networked storage as well, can you use that?
Actually, I'm avoiding to work with the IT as much as possible. My univ has a contract with Microsoft for the 365 suite so they push us to use that. I'm pretty much the only teacher that cares about privacy and the use of FOSS, so I'm on my own for everything.
I dont completely understand the implication of self-hosting but everything seems to come back to this. Here are a few question I have.
Thanks for the help!
- yes*
- yes, that is completely your choice
- yes, though you could take a look at "wake on LAN"
- yes, as much as your server can handle
- I don't think so
* it's totally possible setting up a server on Windows (depending on which version of Windows), but I must recommend using Linux, as that would be way easier to setup and maintain, and probably will be faster overall
that seems a lot like my situation (though I'm just a student :P). awesome to see someone trying to self-host FOSS. best of luck to you!