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The Cloudy Koolaid !
I was starting to wonder if I was missing the point somewhere. 95% of the planet seems to have bought gallons of this "Computing in the Cloud" koolaid and quaffed the lot. The other 5% (in which I include myself) don't want to be beholden to some faceless, locationless corporate who places their bottom line 1st, 2nd, 3rd and last. I would personally far rather go with self hosting and own the hardware, the (open source ?) software and the data. A decent encrypted, online, offsite backup system and Robert is your father's brother.
The latest round of "It's for the children" insanity from Jaqubooti Smith, with her database of all our online utterances only adds piquancy to this mix. She can't have my mail logs without a court order signed by a judge.
For more of this ranting see the (self hosted ;-) web page at http://www.anvil.org/articles/self_hosting/
Andrew Meredith
IT Consultant, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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