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by Gigachad 1041 days ago
That's just the reality of it. You're self hosted box will never be as secure as something hosted by Google where they have teams of people working full time on securing every single layer of the stack right down to finding bugs in the CPUs that their servers run on.
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Is it though? The more complex a setup, the more of an attack surface. Even stuff like social engineering, tricking their support into giving access to your server is a possibility.

YouTube channels get hacked so often, even from technical people like Linus Tech Tips.