My experience: I started hosting some other services on a hetzner VPS, and then also threw in Nextcloud later. Nextcloud was a bit annoying to set up, but mostly because I really wanted to use rootless podman. I imagine a more official way would be easier. It works like a charm now. I have only two users, so mileage may vary.
Most of my data is outside of Nextcloud and it’s photos and videos, so I ran out of internal storage on the VPS quickly. I’m using a Hetzner storage box now (though they did just increase the price of those…).
I use the hetzner backup as local. The offsite one is a scaleway s3 via restic, I wanted it to be completely unrelated, just in case Hetzner decide to terminate my account or something.
I feel like ”adhering to GDPR and not sharing personal information of citizens with actors outside the EU” would be a reasonable requirement. But I’m not lobbied by big tech so what do I know.
Very interesting, thank you for the work and sharing it. When I have some time I’ll have a look if I can use this with my rootless podman setup.