Browsing a directory of essentially static artifacts is really slow in nextcloud. Git isn’t the best place to store binaries and assets and we tried nextcloud as an alternative since we are already hosting it.
Nextcloud isn't serving static files, it was serving a database hit in a PHP environment throwing away a lot of stuff on every connection and doing all sorts of things. Presumably this newer backend does less stuff (as that is the key to performance). Debian serves static files.
I don't think there was any doubt that it was an architectural question. I think the essence of what's being asked is that when jira and nextcloud should be doing next to nothing (based on the inherent complexity of what's materially being done), they seem to have to do quite a lot.
> Presumably this newer backend does less stuff
Presumably not in terms of removing features, but in terms of having been refactored.
