- applyFirewall sets policy_in=DROP so only 80/443 are exposed.
- Capacity/placement account for disk_gb (the real VM allocation), not the
smaller Nextcloud user quota — no systematic overcommit.
- CloudReady sent synchronously again; the step retries on mail failure with the
password preserved (no lost credential in a failed queue job).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>