I’m old and grumpy and I don’t really like the concept of the Cloud. I like to control my stuff. Giving it to someone else for safe-keeping just seems like asking for trouble.
Yep, old school. It’s my data and I’ll keep track of it. No one else will have accessible.
The price of storage has dropped so precipitously in the last 10 years that ANYONE can have their own personal home cloud. I recommend Synology’s product line. They’re Taiwan-based, but if you strip out the “one-click” and “ease-of-use” stuff, you can set up a decent cloud stack in your home.
The advantage of cloud, as I see it, is not for storage but for compute. I run an enterprise server in my home, to my wife’s chagrin, but it’s not light on the electric bill. I’ve tried to cram as much as I can into the hypervisor, and now I’m fighting resource constraints. I’ve offloaded a couple of minor Linux workloads to Microsoft’s Azure stack, and it handles those loads very well and at a low cost; but there’s always the risk of a memory leak or something similar, and my information is suddenly not so private anymore.
The cloud only exists because of data mining and being able to provide a dumbed down user device free from internal storage management issues.