Is running your own server actually safe?
Is self-hosting less secure than using a big provider? A straight answer on where you are genuinely safer, where you are worse off, and why.
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Taking your data back — where it really lives, what happens when a service closes, and whether running things yourself is genuinely safer.
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What happens when the app you rely on shuts down?
Services close, hardware is switched off remotely and terms change without warning. What the record shows, and why software you run has no end date.
5 min read
Where does your data actually live?
Your photos, files and messages are somewhere. Three questions decide how much say you have — and most people get the same answer to all three.
5 min read