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> > you need off site backups

> Yes, but that's not technically difficult or time-consuming.

Yes, you just pay for some server space on a cloud service... oh wait...

The point is all this trivial to do stuff just adds up, and sometimes it does make sense to use a 3rd party.

Your pain threshold may just be larger than mine.




> Yes, you just pay for some server space on a cloud service...

Which is far from the only solution. I have automated off-site backups without involving the cloud.

> sometimes it does make sense to use a 3rd party.

Of course. I'm not arguing otherwise.

> Your pain threshold may just be larger than mine.

Perhaps, but I suffer very nearly zero pain on this. I probably spend a couple hours a month maintaining my systems on overage.


> Yes, you just pay for some server space on a cloud service... oh wait...

I consider dumb storage for encrypted data to still be sufficiently under my control.


I switched from Dropbox to pCloud. They claim to offer an encryption option. I haven't studied it but it's there.




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