Comment by davidbanham

As much as possible the design attempts to be agnostic about where the stuff is actually stored. Usually you want to be storing your stuff in multiple different places. Among others, Perkeep lets you choose one or more (or all) of the following:

Your own hard drive local to the Perkeep instance Your own hard drive local to another Perkeep instance you run Your friend's hard drive local to another Perkeep instance _they_ run with encryption to ensure privacy A removable hard drive you can periodically sync to and from A cloud service like S3, etc