Yeah I think Google is pretty hard to beat for anyone who only cares about cheap storage, unfortunately. One argument I have for that crowd is that there's nothing stopping Google from coming seeking rent in the future (like they're currently doing with Photos), once they successfully kill off all viable competition by offering their products at a loss, which they can afford to do but a lot of companies who only do one thing (like e.g. email) can't.

But yeah I also don't think Nextcloud or other alternatives will really take over unless security/privacy/ethics become a higher priority than cost for most people, which seems unlikely to me.

Edit: Typo (of -> off)

Not to mention you’re less likely to get hit with ransomware. Nextcloud pwnage seems much more likely.

Putting anything behind a firewall in combination with a VPN can be relatively turn key and self patching without too much effort.

Docker wi5 a tool like proxmox can go a very, very long way in a matter of a few days... and provide near identical vps maintainability.

Hardware is much more reliable and self monitoring than it used to be.

None of this deals with ransomware

Do you mean you don't know how it could deal with Ransomware? Or that there's no possible way local setups could could deal with Ransomware because you aren't aware of it?

Ransomware attack vectors are often clicking malicious websites, emails, or software opening stuff that is risky.

Keeping you access point patches system patched and browser up to date is a big line of defence, with or without cloud backups. Those identities can be as easily hacked if the weak spot is our computer.. Using browser and email plug-ins to increase security and safety can be helpful too.

One can run pihole locally at home as well and filter out a great deal of trackers that can get hacked.

It's also relatively easy to setup multiple vlans on your local network to separate your devices.

Having multiple current backups of your computer, physically and locallu is also an important defence against ransomware.

I'm on a similar plan, but I'm worried about the forced upgrade to Google Workspace, which would reduce the amount of storage to 2-5TB per user. I imagine it'll be mandatory soon.

> Unlimited storage (almost 40TB)

Huh? One of those is finite and the other is not.

It means he has 40TB stored I guess.

i am using 40TB out of unlimited. you are right, that was not clear in my comment

40TB is essentially infinite unless you're doing something with large amounts of media content.