Cloud storage services like Dropbox are incredibly convenient, but that convenience comes with a price: your data is stored in a place where others can get at it, and the only things preventing that from happening are the service's own security and privacy policies and practices. It's also costly to keep large amounts of data in sync—most services will give you a few gigabytes for free, and then charge monthly or yearly fees for larger quantities.
Some services, like SpiderOak, attempt to address the security problem by removing themselves entirely from the encryption process and ensuring that they never have access to the keys to your data, but storing more than documents still requires an investment in relatively expensive server-side storage (and as we noted in our review, the service's interface leaves a bit to be desired). Some other vendors offer "personal cloud" services which allow you to access your local files from elsewhere, but these can lack the OS integration and ease-of-use which the ubiquitous Dropbox presents.
If you're looking for something that will let you use your own server for storage and looks and acts pretty much like Dropbox, AeroFS might be for you. The service is still in an invite-only beta as of this writing, but with just a few additions it could be the locally hosted Dropbox that some Windows, OS X, and Linux users have waited for.
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