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I guarantee cloud services are more reliable than your home server. Also, if your house burns down, you're boned.

• zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 12y ago
  Well, yeah, of course you want to have offline offsite backups, but cloud services obviously don't help you with that, so I obviously was talking about online data. And no, cloud services certainly are not more reliable, and even if they were, using them would be the wrong solution. When assessing reliability, you have to consider the whole system and the impact of various failure modes you have to expect, not just simple technical availability, as you presumably are doing (and even on that front it seems to me like "the cloud" isn't all that much more reliable than my home server, they've all had their outages, and my home server also tends to have a multi-year uptime). How often have you had your home server decide to delete all your videos with a week prior notice, for example? With cloud services, economic and political failure are a much bigger risk than with your home server, and they tend to be much higher impact than your internet connection being down for a day or something (which obviously still would be a problem if you relied on "the cloud" while you are behind that broken connection). If your concern is technical availability, then the solution to that should be higher quality software for your home server rather than making yourself dependent on one central entity.