Thanks for the additional comment. > I personally just got tired Its true that a Synology NAS takes some effort to set up initially and a little bit of mainte

Thanks for the additional comment. > I personally just got tired Its true that a Synology NAS takes some effort to set up initially and a little bit of maintenance work every now and then. But I don't think about my NAS most months. And on the months I need to, it's usually a short task that I do along with other house chores. > I did run into some scary security situations (once the DynDNS was set up, someone was immediately trying to log in via brute force) Yes. Unfortunately, that's pretty common on the internet. You can auto-blacklist IPs after a few incorrect login attempts, and firewall-blacklist IPs out of your country in general. These two measures should almost eliminate the brute force spam, and you should be able to verify that they are effective in Log Center. However, you also have other options because you own the firewall if what I suggested doesn't make sense (like if you are traveling a lot). > Although it feels silly to me to have a NAS at home and then still do regular backups via another storage/backup service elsewhere. My backups are be automated with a Synology app (like Hyper Backup). It uploads only changed files. The cloud storage on Backblaze is pretty cheap - I think I pay under $2 per month. But this gives me peace of mind for the "NAS destroyed in a tornado or something" scenario. On the other hand, keeping files in a NAS gives me peace of mind that I own what I have - no cloud storage provider can take it away from me. All in all, I'm happy you found something that works for you. I think you value simplicity and time more, and I value control over my data more. So our choices differ. In any case, I just wanted to offer context from a NAS user.