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It's not basically the same. Encryption makes the whole difference. With NextCloud all of your data is accessible by your provider, its employees, hackers, and
by tasn 6y ago
It's not basically the same. Encryption makes the whole difference. With NextCloud all of your data is accessible by your provider, its employees, hackers, and everyone who gains access to the server. This is not theoretical, hacks happen all the time.
- Triv888 6y agoThe provider is me... so if I get hacked, they could get the data while it is unencrypted on the client side.
- tasn 6y agoNot everyone is a techie and can self host. You'd also need to self-host at home (even more of a pain). And anyhow, even if you are hosting at home, an internet connected server is much more of a target than a usually-behind-NAT phone.
- Triv888 6y agoIt is not externally accessible... only the home VPN is (I'm also using DDNS just in case my semi-static IPv4 changes). But of course nothing is 100% secure.
- tasn 6y agoSure, if you have a VPN that's probably fine. Though this is another piece of tech you need to setup, and thus another barrier for non techies. That's why encryption (secure by default) is better than having users know how to securely setup things, and even needing to know that it's a concern.