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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

While it's very likely true that serious cloud service providers are probably better able to do a better job at security than most of the user companies it still seems dangerous from a business perspective.

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...


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