Sprouts: Self Hosting Without Sysadmin Knowledge
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That's why I would never recommend this to newbies - servers go bad, VPS providers make mistakes, or your service might get suspended... And while the the cloud may lock you out too, the chances of that are much lower.
Backups are definitely part of the vision. Not just for maintenance purposes but because the whole point is to have ownership and control not just of the site itself but the data on it.
The other part is the ability to move to any other host seamlessly.