Restarting the free accounting search
Restarting the free accounting search
Posted Jul 31, 2017 9:45 UTC (Mon) by mfuzzey (subscriber, #57966)In reply to: Restarting the free accounting search by fujimotos
Parent article: Restarting the free accounting search
Given the difficulty of getting your (often mission critical for many types of service) data out, what happens if the service provider goes out of business or decides to multiply their prices by 10?
Plain git repos are easy to move but bug trackers, documentation services, accounting services etc much less so.
There are also a lot of online diagramming tools being used which may become inaccessible (or at least become uneditible) if the providers disappear.
For short lived use cases the tradeoffs may be worthwhile as the risk is limited in the short term. But for stuff that needs to be available and modifiable in 10+ years I'm not so sure...