I wish we had "hybrid" clouds by default, where I get to mirror all of my data easily, and if the cloud fails, it can "fallover" to my own server until the cloud goes back up. If the cloud goes down, everyone temporarily hosts their own services (albeit on more limited resources), but at least your own data is accessible.
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Put a Gmail front-end and SMTP server in my Access Point at home. Then let Google DNS send connections to my server if Gmail is down. When it goes back up, my personal server will resync. :)
- Ray Cromwell
And yes, it would be trivial to write it myself using IMAP to do the mirroring, I'm just saying, a mirrored architecture should be a given, not a 'hack it yourself option'. And for those services like Facebook that imprison your data? Screw em.
- Ray Cromwell
Yeah, this makes a lot of sense at any scale (mail, web apps, etc). If you're a web developer, you should be considering how you can store all your user data in a read-only fallback mode that's accessible when your cloud goes down.
- Matt M (inactive)