Self-Hosting vs Cloud

Good, host them on your own server. It's one point of failure fewer, anyways!

data security is the reason i'd imagine they're letting other's host servers

I assume he means using a service that might have the same problems later (assuming it doesn't already now) rather than self-hosting (which can have it's own problems, but not those ones).

As long as it's a hosted service, you still need to trust the one who runs it.

Because it would be my server instead of a (hopefully,someday) well reputed service

So it turns out that running your own servers isn't always the best idea

It's amazing how many of these issues can be obviated by taking a step back at a given SAAS, asking can I self host this, then if you can and need redundancy to just buy two desktops and stick one in your place and another in your friends apartment in another town. With a lightweight static site, a modern desktop is probably more than powerful enough to deal with most any load you might realistically see for your given project. You are also extremely unlikely to have both of these desktops

That's a risk for people running servers for others, not just for themselves which is what parent is talking about.

If you're concerned about that, back up regularly, or pick an instance not run by a hobbyist, or run your own, or pay one of the commercial hosters to do it for you.

One of the hosting providers should just give this kid a $5/mo VPS in perpetuity. Call it a marketing spend. His heart is totally in the right place - I really respect the thought he's put into his options, and contemplating the downsides of modern day options. The threat model he's worried about is quite real, and I don't think we really know how bad things can get when so much data is accumulated in one place.That said, I hope he doesn't give up the search for an al