They had another article a couple of weeks ago about abolishing landlords instead of building more houses. It was total rubbish, completely misunderstood housing supply, but had a good title. That was also a vaguely concealed advert for a book.

The Guardian used to be a good paper.

I wouldn’t make any storage accessible to the internet without VPN.

Might not be technically what you are asking for, but you really can’t go wrong with Synology for this stuff.