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April 11th, 2019


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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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