Comment by Gigachad

4 years ago

This event happens so rarely that it would be better advice to tell people to wear a bullet proof vest and helmet when going outside. It’s more likely to benefit them than self hosting media.

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wonderbore  4 years ago

> This event happens so rarely

Does it though?

Also: I wear a helmet or a belt every single time I drive even for 1km. Should I not? I never needed them. 0% use rate so far for me, might as well not have done it.

The issue is that when it happens, you're done.

Considering that you probably don't need to keep all your eggs in one basket, why not at least try?

On this note, I wish providers were forced to provide a third-party backup mechanism for important data so that if I were to lose:

- the email: it could forward my email to at least receive them

- my photos: a copy could be kept on multiple hostings

etc

davidmurdoch  4 years ago

Anecdote: It's happened twice for me. Once was for an app I published they decided was against ToS, two years after I published it. And the other was an accidental account deletion when upgrading Google Apps (luckily this one was mostly recoverable... if you know the right people at Google).

ad404b8a372f2b9  4 years ago

You don't need to self-host, there are plenty of alternatives for each service offered by google.

  • some-human  4 years ago

    The problem is finding them. If a layman looks for a cloud back up provider that isn't one of the BigTech group - uses Duck Duck Go and finds a small company offering 10GB back up for free. Unfortunately for them, that service is using AWS for storage, so ultimately despite they're best effort they're just using amazon cloud storage.