Lifehacker is justifiably concerned about random companies hosting personal, mission-critical information.
Call me paranoid, but what if Gmail goes down, or Google decides to stop being “not evil”? What if angry project management trolls hack 37 Signals and record my every to-do, building a too-personal-for-comfort profile of my every day activities? What if del.icio.us disappears? What if Flickr, who has photos of my baby nephews and the inside of my house, is really in the surveillance business?
I’m much more comfortable using my own hosted email and blog solutions. My own disk space, my own database, my own server just feel safer to me. Sure, it’s harder to set up and it costs (*gasp!*) money, but what do we give up in the name of easy?