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title = "Leaving Google and other cloud services"
author = ["Óscar Nájera"]
date = 2016-12-26
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cover_image = "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1461353789837-8eb180f968d2?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&q=80&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&w=1080&fit=max&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjF9&s=55aa2738d0028431fd3c516c01e2cd31"
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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.
Photo by [Eliane Casap](https://unsplash.com/photos/82gJggDId-U) on Unsplash
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