I wouldn't discourage anyone from home hosting really. It's getting to be pretty clear that it's cheaper, far better for privacy concerns, and gives you much mo

I wouldn't discourage anyone from home hosting really. It's getting to be pretty clear that it's cheaper, far better for privacy concerns, and gives you much more control. It seems that companies are beginning to ramp up the prices now - since once you've put your data with them, they can increase charges whenever they like. They know they have a large portion of the population using these data storage solutions, and they're likely going to start abusing that power. If you know what a desktop is, I would suggest trying to self host - even if it's just dead simple raid10 on OpenVPN with syncthing. Heck, put one at another family members place and you probably have a more geographically diverse setup for your data than Amazon does.