ragenz

Myth 31: "I heard it was written by web developers."

His arguments might stand for Amazon, Heroku and Google, but what about the smaller cloud vendors? Are they as trustworthy, reliant and cheap?

Even if you ignore privacy and security concerns, what do you really get for your money? The cloud ain't cheap. If the service is bad it may be easier to have a student install your web server, put in on the internet and forget about it the next few years.

And then there is there are all these cloud services you don't actually pay for, they are financed by advertising or something. You've got even less to expect there. Why not get your email account from some regional/smaller source? How can the centralization brought on by the few strong cloud vendors be better?

I just wish spideroak had a easy to use and registration free service like mega.

Well, the w3c is creating a recommendation for js crypto APIs, so maybe we'll soon see more services like this.