[nickorlow]

additionally, a cloud version of what I described above would be cool too. Would also eliminate a the HA concern and partially the security concern.

[wongarsu]

The cloud version of that is pretty much shared web hosting. Lots of providers use Softaculous [1] or similar solutions to offer one-click install for popular apps. Of course that won't run wireguard and you are pretty locked in to PHP (and sometimes python), but for Nextcloud etc. it's an easy solution.

Or you can go one step further and just go with a managed solution. For example Hetzner has a managed NextCloud, then you don't even have to worry about updating that.

https://www.softaculous.com/

[BLKNSLVR]

Best of both worlds: replicate across friends and families similarly self-hosted all-in-one boxen.

[nickorlow]

I don't think people want to replicate their photos library to boxes that their friends have admin access to