> Customers were not even compensated for lost data, unless they had paid for backups [which were also lost], with the company saying cloud customers should be handling their own disaster recovery plans.
the challenge is I don't love my books for the content, but for their essence, so ebooks just aren't as valuable. If my physically books were destroyed in a fire I would be sad because i lost the objects, not temporarily lost access to the contents.
For me it's a bit of both. A programming book that I wrote over 10 years ago - the content is long out of date but the weight reminds me of the effort I put into producing it. Then there's my father's library, all 2000 books of it. I've kept about 50, on a wide variety of topics, and I value them both for the unusual content (Ancient churches of Wales; Jazz record catalogs from the 1940s; English artists from the early 20th century) and for the fact that they remind me of him.
Depends where the house fire or a flood is. If it's in a data center then they might suddenly disappear[1].
[1]: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/ovhcloud-fire...
If only we had more than one datacenter.
> Many believed they had been paying for a reliable service with backups, and were shocked that their data was lost.
You can keep multiple copies in different locations.
Exactly what the provider said.
> Customers were not even compensated for lost data, unless they had paid for backups [which were also lost], with the company saying cloud customers should be handling their own disaster recovery plans.
the challenge is I don't love my books for the content, but for their essence, so ebooks just aren't as valuable. If my physically books were destroyed in a fire I would be sad because i lost the objects, not temporarily lost access to the contents.
For me it's a bit of both. A programming book that I wrote over 10 years ago - the content is long out of date but the weight reminds me of the effort I put into producing it. Then there's my father's library, all 2000 books of it. I've kept about 50, on a wide variety of topics, and I value them both for the unusual content (Ancient churches of Wales; Jazz record catalogs from the 1940s; English artists from the early 20th century) and for the fact that they remind me of him.
> I don't love my books for the content, but for their essence
Curious thing to say. For me it is obvious that the content is the book’s essence.
You can buy an extra copy of the book too!
... But you'll need a second house!
> ... But you'll need a second house!
In another city... Multi-AZ deployment. Standard procedure.