I'm always amazed at how many hardcore tech people 'don't have time for self-hosting', preferring to entrust their precious data to corporate providers. It sorta blows me away, as for someone tech savvy, it's such a trivial amount of time/energy (based on my own experience).
Having control over my own data means a lot to me and I'm surprised others aren't motivated by that. Their trust of corporations is... ill advised.
@lightweight
> Having control over my own data means a lot to me and I'm surprised others aren't motivated by that. Their trust of corporations is... ill advised
I wrote a short story about this a few years ago, called 'Thoughtbill':
@lightweight expensive is of course relative, but this is the calculation I made:
With Google, I'm paying £25 (lets round that to €30) per year for 200GB.
With NextCloud I'd have to pay for a server (€7.19 per month) plus a 200GB volume (€10.56 per month) so a total of just over €200 per year, before I even think about backups.
Is €200 per year expensive? I'm grateful that it's not a life-changing amount for me, but it’s enough that I need to think about it. And either way it's 6+ times Google's cost.
But, to be fair, the main issue for me wasn't even the cost, but rather that I was unable to import my existing data.
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