Do you trust "The Cloud?"

Well I do remember a pioneering company in Sweden specializing in cloud services a while back. Sweden has always been up to date or even ahead when it comes to IT and the likes. This was back when no one knew what the cloud was so of course everyone was hyped at this extraordinary service. Many companies and private persons put their trust to this new service instead of having actual physical backups they felt their information was immortal when hosted in the cloud. Well one day for reasons unknown the whole system got wiped out. About 70% of the data in the cloud was either corrupted or completely gone. Since that day people in Sweden have been very reserved when it comes to using the cloud as a backup solution. Instead they use it for information sharing and accessibility. Don't think you information is immortal just because you host it at a site. It can very well be deleted or corrupted.

I only trust content off my own servers where I control them and not some other company.

How do you know they don't look at your files and share them with others unless if you have full control?

I hate the 'cloud'. First off, it's not a damn cloud, it's a dark server rack in some air conditioned room in the middle of nowhere. Second, I see right through advertising campaigns for 'cloud' storage. Finally, I hate the feeling that without internet I cannot access any of my data. Say I moved and didn't get internet for a week. Does that mean no music, no documents, no movies, no anything? Because basically that's what would happen with a chromebook. One more thing: why should I rely on my ISP for my right to access my own data. Say I can't pay for internet access anymore. So no more of my own data? That doesn't sound like a good idea. For now, I'm sticking with good old internal drives.

I trust "the cloud" in a way but not in others. Generally, I have two main problems with "the cloud:"

1. Your data is only accessible through the Internet so if you want to retrieve something and don't have Internet access you can't get it until you get access to the Internet. Granted, in the future Internet will probably be pretty much everywhere and probably free so this wont be much of a problem later.

2. If the company that's hosting your data closes down without notice or if their servers break down and some or most of your (and other's) data becomes unrecoverable you might permanently lose your data if you don't have a local copy of it.

Generally "the cloud" is great for when you want to make a secondary backup of your data but not as a primary way to backup data.

Hard to trust anything running over the Internet or even personal connections. I'm indifferent about it.