This event happens so rarely that it would be better advice to tell people to wear a bullet proof vest and helmet when going outside. It’s more likely to benefit them than self hosting media.
Does it though?
Also: I wear a helmet or a belt every single time I drive even for 1km. Should I not? I never needed them. 0% use rate so far for me, might as well not have done it.
The issue is that when it happens, you're done.
Considering that you probably don't need to keep all your eggs in one basket, why not at least try?
On this note, I wish providers were forced to provide a third-party backup mechanism for important data so that if I were to lose:
- the email: it could forward my email to at least receive them
- my photos: a copy could be kept on multiple hostings
etc
How is a laymen supposed to tell the difference between Backblaze - running their own servers, and a Dropbox-like - which is really just uploading your files to amazon's servers?
That's the point I was trying to make.
OneDrive IS Microsoft and iCloud IS Apple so they ARE BigTech, the same as Google? I don't see how that argues against the point?
Box is the only one in that seems to qualify? Kinda proves my point that it's not at all easy for a laymen.
You would even avoid DropBox because they also chose to use proven reliable technology until their own technology was good enough?
But the point I was making was that it was hard for a laymen to decide to avoid using any of the bigtech companies, since so many of the small upstarts are just build on-top of the existing bigtech and aren't forthcoming on if they own the datacentre or if its Azure/Aws etc, so for those who they really did have privacy as their key driver it probably would be easier to self-host, or you have to trust somebody.
The adage that there's no such thing as cloud computing, just somebody else's computer makes sense. If you're that concerned with privacy it's far easier to run your own.
And no, they're not going to spin up a VM. They should buy their own NAS and back everything up to that if they care enough about privacy to avoid cloud storage.
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I've also just seen, which you didn't disclose, that you work at AWS[0]. Not disclosing a vested interest doesn't exactly lend confidence to your impartiality. Either way, I'm still not sure how your argument is a rebuttal to my proposal. SO far it seems to amount to "other cloud providers exist" and "Your mistype wasn't accurate"?