[kortilla]

> Safety of your customer’s data is your ethical responsibility. Protect it, back it up, keep it as generally available as is reasonable.

> Third, you’re gonna go down when the cloud goes down. Not much use getting overly bent out of shape.

“Whoops, our provider is down, sorry!” is not taking responsibility with customer data at all.

[wjossey]

Respectfully disagree. No company in the world has 100% uptime. Whether it’s your server rack or their server rack going down means nothing to a customer.

We’re not discussing data loss in this thread specifically. This is about a couple of hours of downtime per year.