The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away

I've been using Apple's iDisk syncing service for - I can't believe this - about ten years now. When I signed up, iDisk was part of the company's iTools service, which was subsequently revamped and given the goofy name MobileMe. The transition to MobileMe was a little hair-raising, as there were moments when my iDisk seemed to flicker out of existence. Since I was using the service to sync critical documents between my computers, seeing the iDisk folder disappear caused, to say the least, a little panic. But Apple, after much bad press, worked out the kinks. iDisk since then has worked fine, and I've grown ever more dependent on it. Now, as Apple replaces MobileMe with iCloud, iDisk is about to get tossed onto the great junk pile of abandoned software. And I have to go through the nuisance of finding a replacement. Apple is also discontinuing its (fairly crappy) iWeb service, which I've been using to publish theshallowsbook.com. So there's another pain in the ass I'm going to have to deal with. The cloud is great in many ways, but it's also fickle. Look at all the cloud services that Google has shut down: Google Health, Wave, Friend...