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The cloud is just someone else’s computer.

you should never trust cloud providers with your only copy of anything

Absolutely not. That data should be in at least two places. A local and a remote is the general setup. If a cloud provider is the main source of the data, the ‘remote’ location would probably be your house. ;p

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misk@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof redundancy:

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- p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  “I put my carton of eggs in the fridge, and the fridge fell over, breaking all of my eggs.”
  
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  - misk@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    „I put my carton of eggs in two Amazon fridges on two different continents”
    
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    p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Well, it seem damned easy for Amazon to just delete the fridges, so it being on two different continents really didn’t matter, did it?
    
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- oshu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The first rule of uptime is never have only one of something critical, including providers.
  
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