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by MrDresden 637 days ago
Your right of course. No way an individual can compete with an army of specialists.

But for some of us it is a bit of a hobby to run our own infrastructure. And some of it only ever runs on a private network.

I rolled my own docker setup for Nextcloud a few years ago, and couldn't be happier with the outcome. It does require me to log in and update the system and setup from time to time, but that's just a good time to drink a hot bevarage and listen to podcasts in my mind.

For anyone hosting their own instance, Nextcloud offers this scan[0] of your public facing url which might come up with something worth fixing.

[0] https://scan.nextcloud.com/