+1 for Hetzner Storage Boxes, even thought with the general increase in pricing for hardware I don't know how long they'll be able to keep them so cheap.
To back up the data automatically, I use BackRest (it's a nice web interface that uses restic under the hood).
Yeah, I still miss classic subreddits such as jailbait and watchpeopledie. Those were the wild west of the internet. Nowadays Reddit is just a stupid website.
I mean, there's even a website (don't remember the name) that lets you upload a photo of a person and it will show all pictures of that person that are on the web.
Like a Google search but for your face. Super creepy.
That's why I'm saying that first we need to fix stupid speed limits; then we need to force people to actually follow them all the time, not only when they're scared of a camera.
If you want to go on the restic route, you can try BackRest: it's a web interface for restic with graphs and all.