Sure, Google and Microsoft don’t go dark very often, but they can and do. Even if your files are encrypted or you don’t care, you still have the problem of what happens if you can’t reach the server - may be on an airplane with no WiFi - or the server goes down. Some people don’t like their files sitting on a third-party server. The joke about the cloud - that it’s just other people’s servers - is on point here. We haven’t tested it, but one caveat is that the unofficial iOS support sounds a little spotty. It runs on Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD, and Solaris. You can do it with one very slick piece of Open Source software called syncthing.
So what do you do to keep your files accessible everywhere? Why not run your own peer-to-peer synchronization service? Your files are always under your control and encrypted in motion. You might have multiple computers and a smattering of tablets. Your phone is probably a pretty good computer by most standards. Today, we all probably have at least a desktop and one laptop. While that might seem to be a problem, it did have one big advantage: all of your files were on that computer.
Once upon a time, computers were very expensive and you were lucky to have shared access to one computer.
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