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What if you lost your 'XXXXX' account? In my very humble opinion, anything stored on the 'cloud' is lost already.

I got burned very early on, back in 2011, with 'cloud storage' while using a DropBox account. I then proceeded to be my own on-line storage server. I use my server (that's already running 24/7 anyway) to serve SSHFS, SSH, SHTML and FTP to myself and just SHTML to anybody else who may chance along. The server is UPS-protected.

And I don't have to pay out those everlasting monthly fees to some faceless company who doesn't care at all whether or not they happen to lose my stuff.



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