[hdjjhhvvhga]

Personally I don't trust anything that I don't self-host. With Hetzner I chose full-metal instead of VPS. I pay €40 for 4 TB (2x4 TB mirrored to be precise) shared among a large number of services, including Minecraft servers for kids. The load is very low and the maintenance is a pleasure. Plus I love tinkering with and learning new things, so this part of mine is fully satisfied. I learned with Hetzner that every 3 years or so a hard drive dies but they replace it within half an hour so I just let the RAID rebuild itself and that's all.

[whalesalad]

Hetzner is cool unless you are in the US. Latency sucks across the Atlantic.

[leesalminen]

Depends on what you’re using it for. I set up a Matrix homeserver on a hetzner box in Finland for primarily North American users. Latency hasn’t been a perceptible problem for that.

[jonathantf2]

Even in Europe their network isn't particularly good, but I guess you get what you pay for.

[lostlogin]

Thanks. Some nice options. https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver

[aprdm]

Do you worry about the data being on Hetzner servers?

[hdjjhhvvhga]

It is a multi-faceted issue. In general, for really sensitive content, like nude photos, keys etc., I'm very strict they should always be stored in an encrypted form and never ever decrypted on a remote machine.

Other content, private but not sensitive, like holidays photos, can be stored and decrypted remotely and it's a good practice to use encrypted partitions by default. I don't believe Hetzner would do any of the grey things that Google, Facebook and now Apple are doing (i.e. actively scanning your data for advertising and other purposes), but there is a practical problem of broken hard drives - it doesn't matter if it breaks in your place or at a hosting provider, you have a hard drive that is broken but you can't remove your data from easily, but someone else might. I estimate the probability is extremely low, but there is very little downside and effort required to encrypt data partitions nowadays, so I don't see why I shouldn't do that.

As for the interception of data in transit, nowadays everybody is using TLS for everything, so I don't think it's an issue.

[aspyct]

Why? It's a perfectly respectable company.

[Spooky23]

They are subject to the same laws as everyone else.

In the US, privacy means in your home. It cannot have a third party custodian.

[technics256]

Was looking to do the same. What software do you use to replace things like dropbox/photos etc?

[hdjjhhvvhga]

Previously I was using various projects for these things like Coquelicot as a WeTransfer alternative but practically speaking Nextcloud is so easy to use (and relatively stable now) that I use it for most things that need to be shared with others:

* it's intuitive to use, so people who haven't seen it can quickly download what you send them without having to log in, being tracked and so on.

* password protection and expiry date for shared links come in handy

* superfast search is a boon for me as I have so many files it's probably the most important aspect

* the photos app in Next/ownCloud is underperforming if you have a large number of photos in a folder - the thumbnails seem to be generated each time I open the folder, it's probably a bug.

* when you need to collaborate, it's supereasy to add users and they intuitively know how to do things as they're used to Dropbox etc.