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Re:Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? by 1970-01-01 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @01:25PM (#31329751)
>NOTHING you can dream up at home will be as safe and secure as a cloud offering from one of the major cloud providers

Not really. Cloud providers make mistakes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23915484

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Re:Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? by 8fingerlouie on Thursday May 12, 2022 @02:36AM (#31350004)
> Not really. Cloud providers make mistakes.

Everybody makes mistakes. You just need to take a quick glance over on r/datarecovery to see that it's not only Cloud providers.

Just because you keep your data in the cloud doesn't mean you shouldn't make backups. I make local backups as well as backups to another cloud, and data i really care about (mostly family photos) is archived on M-disc Blu-Ray media as well.

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Re:Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server? by Aachen on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @03:20PM (#31331404)
Plus: bigcorp mistakes/hacks affect a million customers. You might have a less fancy door lock than the data center next door, or might have a 1024-bit RSA public ssh key still, but how likely is someone going to get into your email by cracking your lock or key specifically?
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