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 title: "How to choose the right email and cloud service"
 date: 2019-10-01T17:50:00-07:00
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-Today I was asked a simple question; should I choose Office or Gmail for my business?
+Today I was asked a simple question; should I choose Office or Gsuite for my business?
 Of course, I'm about to take that two steps too far.
 
-How many times have you heard about Google reading email, Microsoft tracking users, and
+How many times have you heard about Google reading email, Microsoft tracking users, or
 the loss of sensitive data from some cloud service? Too many. When it comes to protecting
-the privacy and security of our email and documents how far are you willing to go?
+the privacy and security of your email and documents, how far are you willing to go?
 
-I'm willing to use a 3rd party email service that encrypts my mailbox and offers an easy
+I'm willing to pay a 3rd party email service that encrypts my mailbox and offers an easy
 way to send and recieve encrypted emails. On the other side of the coin I also have a Gmail
 account... I know what I *should* be doing but I am resistant to change just like most other
 people.
 
 If I've already lost you at this point just use Office, it's normal and fine and does the things.
-If you're keen to know what alternatives exist may I present [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/)
-it's all the fun of Gsuite for business but free as in freedom. It has everything you might need
-like file sharing and sync, email, contacts, calandars, calls, chats, web meetings, and the always
-fun until it isn't kanban board.
+If you're keen to know what alternatives exist, may I present [Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/)
+it's all the fun of Gsuite for business but private and under your control. It has everything you 
+might need like file sharing and sync, email, contacts, calandars, calls, chats, web meetings, and
+kanban boards.
 
-Wow Josh, this sounds great, sign me up! There's always a catch.
+You can pay (a lot) of money for a company to host and manage it for you, or you can download it
+for free and run it on your old laptop in the dusty closet that only get opened when the wi-fi 
+stops working. It can be hosted on AWS, DigitalOcean, or anywhere else that allows you to install
+software on the interwebs.
+
+There are several alternatives such as OwnCloud and Syncthing but they are not at the same level
+in my opinion. It's hard for any open source project to have as nice of a user interface as google
+or the market penatration of microsoft but the maintainers, contributiors, and commercial team
+working on Nextcloud have created a great experiance. It might not be as good but if we want to
+protect our digital privacy and security, sacrifices must be made.