You ought to consider that Hetzner makes no backup. Have no Collabora Online or OnlyOffice. And you cant use every App.
And not to forget that Hetzner has no support at the weekend. Have you a problem or Nextcloud is down you must wait until monday.
But hey, it is the cheapest hoster in cross the world 
On hosted Nextcloud, you donât know in general how they install and maintain their setup. So Iâd go for a test account first or use a short-term subscription.
Hi,
I still need to get the hang of Nextcloud, but so far I have not encountered a single problem. The servers are fully managed and it seems that the user does not have to do anything on the technical site. No warning in the admin overview - could you specify what you mean by that, however? The traffic is limited to 2TB for the 500GB NX20 server - more than enough for me. The traffic speeds for you in Canada should probably not be of concern and still fast enough. I have no knowledge on their backup policies for redundancy. You can just test it for a few bucks as you can cancel after your first month. The registration is via the Hetzner console. I ran a security check on https://scan.nextcloud.com/ and my server was rated A+. Thanks for the referral code offer, but I do not believe they have that option and I also do not really deserve it as Hetzner.com was only recommended to me a few days back in this thread.
Hetzner uses technologies to keep the service up, like RAID, DB Cluster etc. (bottom of https://www.hetzner.de/storage/nextcloud).
A real backup (protection against accidently deleting/overwriting files etc.) is maybe better done on a desktop computer, where all contents of Nextcloud are synced to. Then you restore files from several months ago if needed.
I used Hetzner services (colo rack, rented servers, VPS) for many years (not Nextcloud, just saw that offer some days ago), never had problems.
Two thoughts about hosted Nextcloud (at a provider like Hetzner) vs. own Nextcloud Server at home:
Never said that RAID replaces a backup. I suggested to backup the locally synced files. Cause that can be managed with an easy to use desktop application.
I do think that Hetzner will have some form of backup, cause they donât want to lose all customer data if something bad happens (bad for reputationâŚ). But their backup would be restored without control of the user. e.g. to the state of 12h ago or so (so no proper backup from user side of course).
I totally get your point. These are my concerns as well, but I thought that somehow a transparent âzero knowledgeâ encryption in which only the user holds the encryption key was possible - I now assume it is not and there is always the aspect of trust. But given that you always have to trust the provider anyway, what is the point of server-side encryption? And are there really no Nextcloud providers which offer a setup in which only the user knows the encryption key (it should be technically possible)?
Also, hosting your own server is an non-practical solution for many. For obvious reasons, such as technical knowledge, costs but also security and the environment if I am not mistaken. If you are not an expert, it is generally safer to trust a good company and not mess with your own server, right?
So I was curious to know if you had anything in the Admin Overview section because I feared some providers may just plop up the software as-is without doing any troubleshooting to make sure it would run smoothly.
Why do not you use end-to-end encryption of Nextcloud?
I think the most Fully Managed Nextcloud Hoster support this feature!
It should normally show a message when the cronjob ran for the last time. They could have removed this part from the code as well, so you donât know if they really fixed it.
I would not recommend to use E2E app.
As the developers also say: Itâs in Alpha status and you shouldnât use it productive! - I made some tests and can agree this totally.
Iâm also searching for a hosted NC solution where you can be sure for 100% that only you have the decryption key for your hosted data, @maniacmindhunter
Unfortunately, only E2E encryption is secure in this point. Server-side encryption is just a large source of problems without providing real protection (it was designed for external storage). If you donât want to use Nextcloudâs E2E yet, there are also VeraCrypt containers, Cryptomator, âŚ
A bit OT, but is it actually possible to enable it just for external storages?
Should be, I think they even made it optional on which external storages you want to enable it.
You get what you pay for âŚ
Data loss âŚ
FYI: I´m not the Twitter User Fusl, I only found it on twitter.
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