The thing about "the cloud" is - at least the more serious vendors should have data replication across multiple data centers in place.
e.g. Smugmug uses AWS S3, it seems. S3 has a durability of 99.999999999% with a typical data distribution across 3 data centers (unless they went for single zone - which is unlikely).
No home-based data storage can beat this in terms of durability really.
That being said - yes, the internet bandwidth can be an issue - local access is still way faster.
PS: I don't use Smugmug for backup. But I don't require super durable storage.
e.g. Smugmug uses AWS S3, it seems. S3 has a durability of 99.999999999% with a typical data distribution across 3 data centers (unless they went for single zone - which is unlikely).
No home-based data storage can beat this in terms of durability really.
That being said - yes, the internet bandwidth can be an issue - local access is still way faster.
PS: I don't use Smugmug for backup. But I don't require super durable storage.
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