[dewey]

I've never seen anyone getting in trouble for running a personal service on your home connection. It's all about the proportion, if you are running a service using up TB of bandwidth/month they'll probably make use of their terms of service but otherwise there's really no reason for them to cut you off.

And what's the difference between running a service like that or just having a public share on your router which a lot of routers come with these days? There really isn't one.

If you want to host it on a service just go with a dedicated server provider and not a "cloud" service which isn't really a cheap way to host a lot of data. You can get a dedicated server with 1TB of hdd, 4GB ram etc. from OVH for 10euro/month. And that's a lot of music.

Edit: Looks like I got ninja'ed there ;)

[ulms]

Agreed, that does make more sense. As TheCraiggers said, CYA seems to be more likely the more that I think about it.

I mean, if you're streaming BluRay 24/7, I'd imagine that's one thing - but for a normal person with a few hours of personal streaming bandwidth consumption per day, I'd hope they wouldn't even bat an eye.

The difference between running a service locally and in the cloud has pretty distinct implications in either scenario, not the least of which is overall cost. AFAICT, OVH is certainly well in the minority in terms of offering significant storage at a reasonable price. "Unlimited" storage hosts, like Bluehost for example, require that your storage use be part of the "normal operation of your website" (which I assume they mean "public use"), etc.