[PLUG-TALK] Alternatives to various "Cloud" file sharing services?

[MJang]

On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 14:28 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> 
> > That was my first thought. I wondered if I might be able to set something
> > up for her on a Stablehost account or some such. Once it was set up maybe
> > it wouldn't be too hard for her to use. I'm not sure how much space she's
> > currently using. Pretty much everything she stores is an audio file, and
> > they come various flavors, the favorites being .mp3, .wma, and .wav, so
> > some of the can get fairly large -- at least compared to some of the
> > others. I don't really know what constitutes large in the rest of the
> > world.
> 
>    External hard drives are quite inexpensive. I've a 3T USB-connected drive
> from Office Max for $150. That's a lot of speaking. :-)

I think there's value in having critical files backed up in remote
locations. I'm glad that such solutions are now accessible to more
regular consumers. 

But backing up a bit, is there some service that's sufficiently secure
-- should anyone trust critical personal files to the cloud. (Perhaps
for people like us, we could rsync stuff to an EC2 instance of Ubuntu,
protected with appropriate firewalls, etc.)

Thanks,
Mike