How good is The Cloud?

Well, it depends.  Remember, you're using someone else's servers.  If they slip, and you lose stuff, what are your options?

Here's the story of Kyle Goodwin, as told in his Motion For Return of Property to the US District Court in Virginia.  He was a Premier paying customer to MegaUpload (remember KimDotCom?), and stored his small business's backups of his video files there.

His hard drive crashed, and within hours the US and New Zealand courts had shut down MegaUpload's servers, shutting off access to Mr Goodwin's data.  It's stored in MegaUpload's colo site, bit turned off and unavailable.

So don't worry, the cloud is fine, your data on the other hand,  Reply hazy, try again.