I don't think the quality of your code has anything to do with your ego. You can be a total jerk and yet a brilliant programmer. Not even correlated based on my personal experience.
I use eclipse mainly because of auto complete, it saves me a lot of time, and I see and correct my mistakes immediately (tight feedback loop). If this is a serious project for you, yours should have this one feature for sure.
The point is that they are not backing up your data they way they advertise it. The whole point of physical redundancy is to eliminate single point of failure yet from their email it seems that such single point still exist.
Also if adding physical redundancy improves reliability only by 3.5% it means that they have different definition of the term.
"You can't outsource your liability"
I have to disagree. You can define any part of your business as a "liability", so in that case you don't have to outsource anything at all. In fact a big reason people outsource tasks is because of liability.
AWS promises physical redundancy, which apparently doesn't mean crap!
No, there wasn't much user generated material at the beginning. I remember when I discovered youtube, I was shocked that how they were allowed to put so much copyrighted material online without any problem.
I had a similar experience... I have tried to switch for the last few years, unsuccessfully. Until a month ago which I installed 9.04 and it pretty smooth. The only reason that I boot my laptop on Windows is Photoshop.
you can also keep track of how people browse the site from page to page, etc. and draw lots of good stats. e.g. similar to amazon's "people who bought these also bought..." or "people who viewed this ultimately bought..." but globally across multiple sites