I know and I still gave the answer I thought was best. Unless you're going to run your own servers in multiple locations (or convince you friends to let you ho

I know and I still gave the answer I thought was best. Unless you're going to run your own servers in multiple locations (or convince you friends to let you host a NUC at their homes), you're going to rely on a third party. All that changes is the type of service that you're receiving, i.e. whether it's an object store (S3, B2, etc), a virtualized server, or even a rack in a data center.