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Whenever news breaks of bad decisions from a popular product, there's a flurry of recommendations of various alternatives, and in that mix there's always folks extolling the virtues of hosting your own.
As a person who works on security for an open source project, my spicy take is this: unless you enjoy being your own sysadmin (some folks do!), any hosted solution from a vendor that is currently reputable and currently has acceptable terms is a better, safer option than self-hosting.
@kkarhan@mstdn.social@Annalee OR you could just choose a #ManagedHosting provider where someone is being paid for keeping stuff updated and secure.
Just like with #Mailservers, #Wordpress or whatever application one wants hosted.
It's not as if #SelfHosting is without alternative and choosing a #FLOSS solution that multiple providers offer as #managed / #SaaS offering is my go-to recommendation espechally for SMEs and Users that can't afford personnel hours needed to properly #SelfHost!