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by bad_user 449 days ago
Self-hosting hundreds of GBs of data isn't feasible, you also need backups and it's a terrible idea for most people. Hetzner does provide managed Nextcloud instances.

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> Self-hosting hundreds of GBs of data isn't feasible

Why wouldn't it be feasible? Storage is cheap, backups are cheap. It's not for everyone, obviously, but for 20 EUR/month you can get a VM with a couple hundred GB of storage and 1TB of backups on a storagebox in hetzner. Or have a raspberry pi with a 1TB SSD in your home, or both!

The amount of storage isn't the issue unless you're taking about 10++ terabytes.

The things that's interesting is how you're accessing and writing to it - depending on that, it might indeed be infeasible to do everything yourself as an individual.

A "cloud" storage like next cloud with only 1-3 users? That's not gonna become a problem, while the base configuration with backups will likely take you a weekend, it's not that hard.

Or you could just setup a backup with the cloud provider. Even better, a different cloud provider and follow the 3-2-1 rule for backups.