No, but totalitarian governments tend to get into everything, and a popular piece of software is something they will be interested in.

That’s interesting. Although I usually handle backups myself (to backblaze) and I never tested provider backup mechanism

Yes, that’s true. But if I start having many servers I will also start feeling the urge to cluster them, and that will be an absolute black hole of my time 😅

Yes. In any case I will attach an external volume,which is easier to manage and relatively cheap. Thanks for pointing it out

It is not very hard. The problem is when they suddenly change an environment variable name or format, and you need to debug what is not working and why

Yes, you can. But will you be able to keep up with their tiring update cycle that forces you to redeploy every week?