[DavidAbrams]

Ha, you're right: GoDaddy would and DOES rip off customers and screw them by capriciously pulling their domains:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/03/godaddy-silence

In support of your (and my) point: Local storage is now dirt-cheap, small in size, and spacious. Exactly the WRONG time to start turning your data over to someone else to store "in the cloud."

[jrockway]

Storage is cheap, but administering a well-secured mail server is difficult. Providing search and spam filtering is even more difficult. There's a reason why people pay others to maintain email servers: it's hard.

[DavidAbrams]

Sure E-mail, but not things like media storage.