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Illustrative service plans

Choose a starting point for the service you want to run.

Compare a shared workspace or personal collection with the resources, storage and maintenance it needs.

Two ways to start

01 / Illustrative use

A shared knowledge hub that survives a change of maintainer

Plan a small collective’s wiki around complete data, sensible permissions, a resource budget and a recovery handover another person can follow.

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02 / Illustrative use

A personal document archive you can recover and move

Budget a personal document collection for originals, versions and working space, with independent copies and a recovery exercise beyond the VPS.

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Choose a starting point, then check what your service needs.

Applications differ in memory use, retained versions, search indexes and maintenance needs. Write down your own data volume, access rules and background work; compare the software requirements; then measure a test workload. The scenarios do not describe customers or applications delivered with the VPS.

Fill the service notebook before comparing the three resource budgets.

Six more service scenarios

Illustrative use

Plan a private photo library for a small family group

Measure a small photo import, record originals and previews separately, then name the person who can recover the collection.

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Illustrative use

Plan a small group calendar and contacts service

Separate shared and private collections, test an export path, and record how a departing member is removed.

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Illustrative use

Plan a private reading and bookmarking library

Decide who reads, edits and imports; measure cache and import behavior before adding capacity.

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Plan a shared project wiki with a backup maintainer

Map page history, attachments and database state, then rehearse a restore that a second person can follow.

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Plan a personal notes service with portable exports

Use representative notes and attachments to check the export/import path and record software-version limits.

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Illustrative use

Plan a small collective document exchange

Budget uploads, previews, deleted-item retention and recovery workspace, with a documented handover owner.

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Use a scenario as a design question.

Each scenario is illustrative. Follow it with a purchase worksheet and a resource record; no scenario represents a customer or preinstalled service.

Plan a file service before choosing a VPS.

Nextcloud VPS for a small group links catalogue budgets to files, previews, database, exports, access and recovery.