That's how it works. Paid Nextcloud storage capacity is probably Murena's main income (the first gigabyte is free), and the other one is phone sales. They fork reputable open-source solutions to make them even easier in /e/OS, but the forking introduces new bugs and complaints. They seem to have introduced some incompatibility with their Seedvault fork: https://doc.e.foundation/os/apps/backup-and-restore Warning: Backup only works between /e/OS devices: it can only restore a backup it made itself, on a phone that already runs /e/OS — never data from Android, iOS, or any other system. It also only works with a Murena Workspace account, and needs the Passwords app to store its encryption key. I guess if you skip that and install regular Seedvault, it would work normally. Nextcloud is indeed self-hostable. Seedvault goes inside it, or elsewhere.

I'll try to post on murena forum and if i have an answer, I'll post it here.

One thing to keep in mind is geo IP mapping are best effort. Look at anything to do with Azure. It always shows the IP as US no matter where you deployed your stuff. Yes, it could be going to Iran, it could also be someone has purchased address space and haven't updated the geo IP databased yet. Could also be someone fat fingered their own IP block and the databases are wrong. We has that happen to us in Australia, someone fat fingered their adjacent address block and suddenly our Australian block was showing up as Chinese.