Allegedly, on or about 15 February 2019, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En
Ming sent:
3. Cloud storage provider must not be a fly-by-night company, that
is, it will not suddenly close down the next day.
You can't rely on the permanent existence of ANY external service. At
any time they might decide to change their business model. That could
be anything from an unacceptable change in their terms of service, to
complete removal of a service. Companies get bought out, change their
strategies, and go out of business, all the time.
Personally, I find the thought of cloud-based anything even more
problematic than anything. The idea that you can just scoot programs
across some computing boundary like pushing a chair across the room
doesn't seem a trustworthy concept. A few years ago, my webhost tried
cost-cutting by moving their service onto a cloud, and it failed
dismally. With a cloud, you have a thing, inside a thing, inside a
thing (reminds me of early programming where some people turned their
software into far too many subroutines), and it can get bogged down
with other client's heavy use of the system.
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64
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Evolution keeps on telling me that it's refreshing,
but I still want to go and get a drink.