I like Kitely's OAR import/export. Easy interface and quite useful. I use google drive to save all my RAWs, Oars, textures, scripts and xmls in case of windows or harddrive issues.
One can save their terrain work in any grid using the estate tools..something I highly recommend if one has spent some time working on getting their terrain --just right--. The resulting RAW file is only 832 kbs.
I look forward to IAR saving in kitely...would be very useful.
Good article, I have been telling people some of these things for some time now, especially in light of the very good point you made concerning having account access removed by a grid owner. People tend to trust grid owners blindly to have their content safeguarded..this is foolish. I am all for a person taking all this control into their own hands, other than, of course, the simple fact that anything they put in a grid is --also-- then owned by that grid.