It’s up to you. Things to consider:

• Size of data
• Recovery speed (Internet speed)
• Recovery time objective
• Recovery point objective (If you’re backing up once per day, is it okay to lose 23 hours of data when a disk fails?)

If your recovery objectives can be met with the anticipated data size and recovery speed, then you could do RAID 0 instead of RAID 1 to get higher speeds and capacity. Just know that if you do that, you better be on top of your backups because they will be needed eventually.

Ugh but it’s acting as the SAN so I have to shut down like all my servers to run updates on it. What a PITA.

Idk but I wouldn’t risk it when it’s easy to encrypt stuff. Good security is done in layers.

What about a torrent? You’ll have to encrypt with 7zip or something to keep it secure, but that and qbitorrent will do the trick.

You won’t be able to upgrade to new versions when the support contract runs out, but you can install updates to the existing version as long as updates are made for it. This has always been the lifecycle for perpetual licensing. It’s good forever, but at a certain point it becomes a security risk to continue using. The difference here is they won’t sell you another perpetual license when the lifecycle is up.

They’re terminating in the sense that they won’t sell it anymore. They’re not breaking the licensing they’ve already sold (mostly, there was some fuckery with activating licensing they sold through third parties)

I had a few domains there. I migrated them to Cloudflare as soon as I saw the news that this was coming.

I’m probably gonna go cloudflare because that’s what I’ve had the best experience with besides Google Domains

The thing I use most that I self host is Home Assistant