>and then the service is down for half a day, your data got restored from days old backups (if at all) It's not unheard of for the same thing to happen with in

>and then the service is down for half a day, your data got restored from days old backups (if at all) It's not unheard of for the same thing to happen with in-house systems. The difference is that you may have a wider range of options to avoid and respond to any outage if you run things yourself. That seems to be a rather theoretical advantage though. Every time there's a new ransomware attack, it's always those in-house deployments that are hit hardest and take the longest to recover. I think under optimal conditions self-hosting is superior. But conditions are rarely optimal. As soon as you have to convince non-technical management to invest in non-productive necessities or in contingency planning you're already in a sub-optimal position.