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April 11th, 2019
_______ | 10:19 am https://twitter.com/ValdikSS/status/1116066219281592320
Many people, incl. friends of mine, rely on "cloud" for file storage, use "free" messengers, listen to music on "services", and expect companies to provide stable and consistent service. This is what you get in the end: https://github.com/ValdikSS
I have always treated public services as a handout that could be taken away any moment, without any explanation, and their availability as a long-drawn moment between downtimes, data corruption or content deletion due to DMCA or other rules or laws, and favor self-hosted alternatives even if it provided less functionality or did not provide much convenience. That wasn't something I thought much about, it was just plain obvious for me to set up my own services if I needed them, and not to rely on any third-party without strong reason.
That's why I never used e.g. dropbox—why use some strangely-free service when I have my own already, with lots of free space and gigabit connectivity inside LAN? Why use free Slack with 10000 message retention policy and suffer, when you can install Mattermost or Zulip?
I never really convinced people and usually was an outsider when tried to promote self-hosted alternatives to my friends and colleagues, but in the long term, self-hosted always win, I can assure you.
I used picture and video hostings for data of no importance, and in 10 years: http://imgur.com had lost 4 of my pictures; http://video.sibnet.ru had lost most of my videos; http://imageshack.us had lost all my data.
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