I’m considering having my own “cloud backup” service for my own personal usage (maybe family members too)

But, I’m reading some of the hosting providers terms and they’re pretty strict on what’s stored on a server. I don’t have anything crazy other than what a typical person would have 😅 and I suppose I can skip those files, but what’s the answer here? I guess I answered my own question? Lmao

Past this, just in general it would be nice to find a place that’s secure with their servers regardless. Like if I used the storage for my sensitive documents, I’d hate to be with a company that’ll easily access these like Google does with Google Drive…

Thank you in advance

Edit: I did some searching and found some places that apparently allow this type of stuff: Hostwinds Vicetemple Offshore Servers

In case anyone else is curious haha

  • xkcd__386@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d never heard of VPSs prohibiting any specific use case; I have 3 restic repos on my VPS and have had them for close to 6 years now (well, borg until early this year, now restic, but it’s the same principle).

    I’ve looked through all the server types in https://www.hetzner.com/legal/system-policies (my VPS provider) and I can’t find anything about not using for data backup.

    (They only prohibit: crypto mining, IP address scanning, changing the MAC address, and using fake source IPs.)