Is it worth swapping from snikket? Seemed to ve an easier way to get prosody

How about zitadel as an option?

Put them all on the same tailscale/netbird metwork and use restic to encrypted backup from each one to the others. Each hpuse gwts their files from there own box and has encrypted backups to pull from if their unit fails

I use it with borg from Canada and I’ve tested it with restic with very few issues. It’ll probably be fine for you for mass backup. I have previously tried using it in a more real time situation and that wasn’t so great from western Canada.

maybe 19 years since they came out as transpuppygirl at the age of 27?

I did similar https://github.com/zombiehoffa/hyprjellynix

12 to 40 bucks a year depebding on which racknerd vps yiu need. I spend aboit 15 a yaet on mine but it only has me and my facebookessenger slidge bridge