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I recently moved Nextcloud and Gitea from Containers on a Debian VM to Alpine LXCs running Alpine's packages. I've never had Nextcloud's web interface so snappy and my resource usage for both is next to 0. If you're running Proxmox I'd highly recommend trying out Alpine LXCs if they package your services.

I use nextcloud for a lot of my home data serving. It lets me have the full iCloud/Google docs experience, but with all the data on my own systems/disks. One service that is a little less known, I think, is ONLYOFFICE. It's a thick-client Word, Powerpoint, Excel, PDF-Form-making office suite. I get a ton of mileage out of it. It's honestly a bit rough around the edges and not as full-featured yet. But their mobile app works, their desktop app works, and I guess it's good enough for me. It costs like $120 once-in-a-while. That is, they do big version upgrades and expect you to pay if you want the new version. But then they do a lot of features and updates on a major version. It works out to about $120 every couple of years or so.