Last time I looked all the dedicated backup services didn't have Linux clients and that is where most of my data is now. Sure I could probably mount the Linux drive over the network on a Window box, but it isn't ideal (and some of the dedicated backup services don't backup network drives).

The other issue is with the dedicated backup services that is all you can do, backup. With something like Dreamhost I can backup all my photos to there and then I can also serve the files over the web*.

At some point I need to get my own dedicated hosted server, I guess this Dreamhosts change will be another push towards it.

* doing this might make me escape the new Dreamhost terms, who knows ? I have 60GB of data on Dreamhosts, so I guess I'll be one of the first to find out how they actually police it.