

Some, not all older Hetzner dedicated servers are really slow compared to even their shared VPSs.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you could actually do with a virtual server, unless you need the disk space or know the traffic is close to 20 TB / month. NVMe is fast though, you may get really good performance with the static HTML caching mentioned, if the content is suitable.


I’m curious what you mean by files being unusable outside Nextcloud? Are you using server-side encryption?
Edit: to sync only selected folders, there should be a Choose what to sync button. Or you can skip the initial sync config and set per-folder sync afterwards from settings.