Continuing from here, I found a couple of really neat posts from people thinking the same thing I am. First, from Al3x helps you set up your own personal cloud. The second, from Steven Frank follows him as he researches the available options to build his own. Another option I have been considering is to put Mac OS X Server on my iMac and host it all myself. So many choices.
All this NSA snooping news has really made me think hard about where my data is located and who has access to it. Major data stores, for me: * Dropbox (most of my personal documents) * Evernote * Email (Fastmail, whose main server is in the NY) * iCloud For Dropbox, I'm either going to encrypt it (Knox or Espionage) or get a File Transporter. Don't know what to do with my Evernote data...ideas? I'm thinking about moving my email to a non-US host, maybe Hover? Their servers are in...
I'm a huge proponent of proper backups (automatic, redundant and tested) but doing it "right" is very hard. My current setup: 1. local, hourly Time Machine backup 2. manual, monthly SuperDuper! backup stored in my safe-deposit box 3. automatic, nightly Arq backup With this setup, I can recover from just about any catastrophe and all my data is secured. My Arq backup is encrypted locally and stored on Amazon's Glacier service so I am not worried at all about someone getting my...
I just discovered Postach.io as a neat blogging system that uses Evernote! I am a huge fan of owning my own data and even went so far as to write my own wordpress plugin to export my posts to dropbox for safe keeping. With Postachio I can write a blog post, in Markdown even, in Evernote, from any of my devices and when I'm ready to publish, just add a tag 'published'. So awesome!!