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diff --git a/content/post/leaving-google-and-other-cloud-services.md b/content/post/leaving-google-and-other-cloud-services.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9aa2f26 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/post/leaving-google-and-other-cloud-services.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ ++++ +title = "Leaving Google and other cloud services" +author = ["Óscar Nájera"] +date = 2016-12-26 +draft = false ++++ + +Despite being an active user of Google's services: it's search engine, +webmail, drive and others. I just don't agree on trusting them such +enormous part of my life. So I decided to leave them, I bought my own +VPS, which are very cheap nowadays. In fact giving the prices of +having one I can just feel irritated on how little of a cost I +represent to Google or Dropbox as a client on their free +services. Although I don't know either how much money they make out of +me. + +Having the VPS is not enough, I need to administer it. Fortunately +there is already enough people leaving the free online services in +favor of hosting their own. This is the case of the nice people behind +the [sovereign](https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign) project. This provides a simple way of maintaining and +managing my VPS it and return the control of my online life back to +myself and family. |