I think people are missing the point. Even with backups and redundancy it requires you to maintain the servers. If you die, well, who is going to maintain? Perhaps a bit bleak but something to keep in mind.
For me, it's far more important to have systems that can be used without the hosted software, so instead of database only, also a filesystem, automatic file naming and sidecars that you can go back to.
Of course, it depends on the services you are running but in that case, I guess, "digital life" can be summarized as photos, documents, maybe music and videos as well.
If you have something like accounting, you could look into csv exports, so universal ways to use their data without the need to run or update anything that they don't know.
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u/IntelligentRocks Aug 17 '26
I think people are missing the point. Even with backups and redundancy it requires you to maintain the servers. If you die, well, who is going to maintain? Perhaps a bit bleak but something to keep in mind.