Except I would rather trust a service like tarsnap to host my backups securely, or amazon with kernel updates than doing it myself. Hosting my own backup server

Except I would rather trust a service like tarsnap to host my backups securely, or amazon with kernel updates than doing it myself. Hosting my own backup server is "trivial" only if I have the expertise to encrypt it properly, and keep the box updated and safe from vulnerabilities. Moving to our systems only makes sense to me if its a core part of my business or if 3rd party solutions are inadequate. Paying 2 engineers $75/hr to reinvent IRC/git/email poorly is a poor use of time and money. At the end of the day, if GitHub steals my IP (for whatever reason) I can sue GitHub (if its not morally wrong, they have a legal reason to discourage them from doing so). If my "1u ubuntu server" is hacked due to a poor default, I have no recourse.