And that's how you get preppers: it's a remote problem until it's too late, let's prepare for every eventuality before it's suddenly too late!

Risk management is a balance, not fearmongering as you say. That's why I'd rather use advice from people with daily experience than look at the newsworthy experiences ("nothing happened today, again; regular security patches working fine" you'll never see) and conclude you'd attract threats and cyber attacks just by hosting backup copies of parts of the Internet Archive