That is only an issue in Europe. OP sounds like they are from the US

I also don’t think GDPR is much of a concern as there are large companies using Google and Microsoft services who seem to be fine with the risk. (I’m pretty sure Google and Microsoft also host European stuff in Europe)

Could you pay them to host it for you?

I think that is for a shared CPU not a dedicated CPU. Nextcloud can be resource intensive in some cases so you probably do not want to run it on a shared plan.

Just a word of warning

Nextcloud is very finicky and can be prone to breakage. That’s not the say don’t use it but be realistic about the amount of work needed to maintain it.

Honestly I would just go for gsuite or office365 simply because they are less likely to break on you. It sucks that Nextcloud is a huge monolith but it is what we have.

Not necessarily

Notice Forgejo is being hosted on Forgejo. The community behind it is much stronger while Gitea is some startup that is desperately trying to be relevant.

Look at the number of commits

Forgejo

I find it way easier just to use C

It is simple and clean

C is still better for the embedded world

If you have gigabytes of storage and memory Rust makes more sense. C shines as it allows fine control over memory. The fact that you can tie into The system libraries makes it very resource friendly since you don’t need redundant code.

Source? Trust me bro

It depends on what you are counting as “performance”

Good C code is way better than mediocre Rust code. C also has much smaller binaries.

Because it is an embedded system

Also that would be hell. Hell, it is hell on desktop

I would strongly recommend that you get some newer hardware. That thing isn’t going to perform well plus you will likely run into hardware failures due to age.

It doesn’t even have gigabit networking

Proxmox thick provisions virtual machines. If you give the VM 4GB of ram the host will use at least 4GB of ram.

If you are running ZFS you also probably have an ARC cache

Why no container?

Debian testing has way less packages

It also lags slightly behind on security updates

I’d rather just use any distro with Ansible for configuration

Ubuntu desktop is only gnome based. They modify it pretty heavily before shipping it.

If you don’t care for the gnome workflow that is fine but if you have issues with the Ubuntu desktop it is probably caused by Ubuntu.

Why wouldn’t you use Debian Xfce4?

In my experience some packages are also broken such as podman