>But only for very technical users who want to invest the money, time and energy into running things themselves. Usually people also don't think what happens if from one day to the next they'd not be able to maintain it.
All true. It is a burden sometimes, however, I am a sysadmin by trade and the scale of our personal operation doesn’t even register compared to what I do daily. It takes a bit of planning and continual maintenance to do this, but I feel we (as in myself, you and the HN audience) are in a unique position to make the world a little better this way. My employment has lost most of its meaning in KPI's, regulation paperwork and compliance. This gives a little meaning to what I do.
>Personally I'd not want to be responsible for data my friends put into my selfhosted NextCloud instance.
We have decent backups set up and if anyone asks I'm happy to go through a personal backup strategy. I see NextCloud as a syncing service and people can use it as such, with that expectation going into it. If you keep the scale small enough you can be clear about that on a personal level.
All true. It is a burden sometimes, however, I am a sysadmin by trade and the scale of our personal operation doesn’t even register compared to what I do daily. It takes a bit of planning and continual maintenance to do this, but I feel we (as in myself, you and the HN audience) are in a unique position to make the world a little better this way. My employment has lost most of its meaning in KPI's, regulation paperwork and compliance. This gives a little meaning to what I do.
>Personally I'd not want to be responsible for data my friends put into my selfhosted NextCloud instance.
We have decent backups set up and if anyone asks I'm happy to go through a personal backup strategy. I see NextCloud as a syncing service and people can use it as such, with that expectation going into it. If you keep the scale small enough you can be clear about that on a personal level.