Is it just me, or do custom clouds make people nervous? Why can't it be on Dropbox or some other cloud that acts like regular files?
I don't trust third-party clouds for many reasons; for one, what's to stop them from holding my data hostage and making me pay a ransom? Or just charging for the service with no (or difficult) alternatives? How do I know the data is backed up well, so a server farm fire won't destroy it? How do I know how secure the cloud is, physically, by host, by software or any other way? I'm sure I could easily come up with a half-dozen other reasons why it's a concern without trying very hard.
I find it hard to believe that any cloud service with some basic primitives couldn't host my data just fine. Why must I use everyone's individual cloud service?
This complaint is no doubt semi-bogus in this case since it's OSS software, and I could fork it and add Dropbox support. That's valid. But everyone is using their own cloud, and it's bothersome.
But Dropbox "or some other cloud that acts like regular files" is a third-party cloud.
Why can't this be shipped with a server that I can host myself without running SQL Server, .Net and whatever else?
The server is just supposed to store already encrypted credentials, right? I'm pretty sure a very small PHP/sqlite backend should be able to do the trick.
Also, how long can this possibly be centrally hosted before questions of business model come into play? This seems like something that will go dark in a year tops.
I don't trust third-party clouds for many reasons; for one, what's to stop them from holding my data hostage and making me pay a ransom? Or just charging for the service with no (or difficult) alternatives? How do I know the data is backed up well, so a server farm fire won't destroy it? How do I know how secure the cloud is, physically, by host, by software or any other way? I'm sure I could easily come up with a half-dozen other reasons why it's a concern without trying very hard.
I find it hard to believe that any cloud service with some basic primitives couldn't host my data just fine. Why must I use everyone's individual cloud service?
This complaint is no doubt semi-bogus in this case since it's OSS software, and I could fork it and add Dropbox support. That's valid. But everyone is using their own cloud, and it's bothersome.