For me, I only let people I know use them (friends and family) with the exception of my Lemmy instance, of course (and even that’s not wide open to the world).
I’d be running these for myself whether anyone else used them or not. Unless I’m hosting for hundreds of people, the cost to run these services is the same as it is just for myself. Granted, I don’t have people gaming the system trying to backup their entire PCs to their email inbox or Nextcloud, but that’s where the trust factor (and storage quotas) comes in.
As far as being responsible for all that goes, again, the small audience of people I know personally lets me explain that it’s all “best effort”. That said, I do take my own backups and high availability seriously and they benefit from that.
That’s okay, too.
For me, I only let people I know use them (friends and family) with the exception of my Lemmy instance, of course (and even that’s not wide open to the world).
I’d be running these for myself whether anyone else used them or not. Unless I’m hosting for hundreds of people, the cost to run these services is the same as it is just for myself. Granted, I don’t have people gaming the system trying to backup their entire PCs to their email inbox or Nextcloud, but that’s where the trust factor (and storage quotas) comes in.
As far as being responsible for all that goes, again, the small audience of people I know personally lets me explain that it’s all “best effort”. That said, I do take my own backups and high availability seriously and they benefit from that.