The risk of distributed data centers losing my stuff is exponentially less than that of situations like the one in this very article. And while a security profe

The risk of distributed data centers losing my stuff is exponentially less than that of situations like the one in this very article. And while a security professional might be able to set up better security on a home server than what cloud storage providers offer, I am not a security professional, and even if I were I'd probably still want to outsource that to other professionals and not deal with it. If you build this kind of thing because you enjoy it, more power to you. But I see no valid argument for its practicality.