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> nextcloud was (I've not checked recently) very hard to secure properly

I've not heard of nextcloud being particularly onerous to lock down, compared to other systems of its ilk (and it should be easier than securing something string together from smaller parts). The main trick with “standard” packages like these, once you've done the initial hardening, is making sure you keep bang up-to-date with security patches from upstream.

> its car cheaper to have a low power server with a couple of big disks in it, than it would be to host that data on S3/other block storage

Though a good block storage provided should give your data more redundancy and a lower time-to-recovery than a pair of old drives in RAID1. Of course, you still want good backups on another provider, just in case.

Check performance too: some block storage providers might be notably faster (SSD/RAM cached storage etc) or much slower (mostly traditional drives, high levels of contention on the storage arrays, latency between your app and the storage array) than those inexpensive local drives.




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