Hi, This is John w/3DPrinterOS. I also felt the same way years ago with online banking and the potential security issues, but the reality is -- life is much easier when you do things in the cloud. Of course many people do not setup their printers correctly and the cloud can not help there, but once you learn to setup your printer properly with the right setting, right filament, and maintain it properly -- The next challenge is accessibility and time. Having access from anywhere, anytime provides a lot of hidden value with running multiple print jobs from the cloud.
You should try it out. It's free. I would not worry about someone hacking your printer as they system sends you notifications anytime it starts to print. Statistically the bigger risk is not being able to stop a print if something goes wrong and burning your machine. Or a bigger is than that is your slicer produces a bad gcode which you find out sent commands which broke your printer while you were away. The cloud technology we developed was designed for me personally to print 1000's of parts in a repeatable and scalable way. Since launch we have had over 8000 prints through our system in 1 month with zero issues Try it out, let me know what you don't like Best, John
