@CorneliousJD this bit: "... but it is SLOW. Slow to navigate to site page, slow going between apps."
Do you have other alternatives in mind?
I've tried to install nextcloud with mariadb,mysql,postres and I can't install it yet because of db errors about the password or user not correct. I dabbled in the CLI creating the db name, root name, password, user pass and no dice so far. I decided to try sqlite which is the default but there is a warning about not using sqlite for production environments. I do have 2 NVME's as cache and I am hoping the slowness you mentioned would be mitigated by this available cache (2TB each) as soon as I find out how to configure nextcloud w/ postgres.