“considered migrating the the cloud? all hardware issues go away once that is completed”
The cloud works great until it doesn’t. Doesn’t bother me for him to have his own server, but perhaps some additional redundancy.
when has it not worked? all files are kept encrypted and triple redundant. AWS alone has over 15 million servers distributed worldwide. anyone who thinks having your own hardware is more secure or more reliable is a couple years out of date.
just saying, sometimes new technology is actually a good thing.
PS: and its a lot easier to use.