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> Previously I used OVH online drive service, but it was EOL and pCloud is the replacement. So a vendor has the power to disrupt you whenever they feel like EO
by Rygian 4y ago
> Previously I used OVH online drive service, but it was EOL and pCloud is the replacement.
So a vendor has the power to disrupt you whenever they feel like EOLing the service you depend on. I understand that's as good as it gets today, but it's not good enough.
For me, the only acceptable level of impact is as follows:
* vendor X sunsets their service by date D
* before date D, I sign-up for a new account with vendor Z and configure it in my filesystem settings
* I set vendor X as "deprecated,EOL-date=D" in my filesystem settings.
Then my filesystem takes care of everything else for me transparently, with zero downtime and zero effort. Date D comes and goes and I haven't noticed a thing.
- Shorel 4y agoThat's how it happened. OVH announced the EOL about a year before the system was shut down. pCloud is a replacement I choose, nothing to do with old OVH service.