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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The kind that did a cost analysis of buying their own hardware and running costs vs the cost of a VPS. Or the kind that doesn't have good uplink bandwidth and wants to share with family and friends.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would have to be a fucking moron of the highest order to upload tons of illegal content to a cloud based server.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As opposed to keeping it at home? 🙂 How is it any worse? If anything it can be better, there are some VPS services that attempt to preserve your privacy to some extent.