Don't forget clouds can rain on your parade:
+1 to that.
You people can go ahead and enjoy your "cloud" backups and storage.
Where is it stored? ----------------------- Servers (or server farms if you will)
What are website files stored? ---------- Servers
Do websites get hacked? ---------------- yes
Can your "cloud" storage get hacked? -- Yes
If you can access data, so can others. And, let's consider one important thing about that.... If hackers know the servers where this storage is held, that adds to the risk. Entire servers CAN be hacked. The severs are always "online". Your computer is not. Your internet browsing is what adds risk to your computer. The storage cluster on servers is what makes them of more interest to hackers.
You guys can pay your $10/month for your service. I'd rather buy another jump drive(flash drive) every month for that price. Yeah, it ain't real expensive, but what could you do with that $ otherwise? Are you people storing transaction info from sales on these? Hell, I have over 20,000 emails stored in one folder and just over 500MB. Not a lot of data size there.
Why can't you use a jump drive? back up every week, use a new, different one for each year.
I hope you're not going to rely solely on memory sticks for backups.
I would not trust (or waste money, time, or sanity) with ANY hardware based form of backup. External harddrives, flash drives, cd roms (if anyone still uses them), all are prone to failure.
Why? Jump drives do not have anything mechanical. Are you using them to read and write constantly? Have you ever seen one fail? I've never had one fail. I do not know of anyone have one fail. I have an old 256Meg unit that still hasn't failed, guess how old that is. and they are small and all, soooo...:
Yup. I've been using dropbox since it came out and man it is amazing. I can program at work and then drive home and work on the same program without the need for carrying usb drives, etc........
Huh??? Are you meaning jump drives(flash drives)?? Are they too much hassle to carry? really? I've seen 4Gig units as small as about .5 x .5 x .2"(estimate) counting the plug. Oh, that is so tough to handle that. Are you people "left handed". WTH?!?!?! If that is too big, what about SD cards? Micro SD? many computers these days at least take the SD cards, right? I hope they are small enough for you to handle.....
Thing is, you guys can pay for your extra service... I'll sit here and laugh. But do know that you are putting your info out there to be more easily hacked. Which brings to question..... Do you guys store personal and confidiential customer info on these "cloud" servers?? Are YOU in violation of any LAWS/POLICIES???? while doing that? You may want to check. At least info on a computer is only available WHILE you are connected to the NET. The biggest risk on a PC is visiting bad websites or opening bad emails. Otherwise, your PC isn't as much of a target as a server with lots of possibilities. My PC which sees confidential info only sees a few KNOWN and CONTROLLED sites on the NET. therefore, I greatly reduce the chances of compromising any confidential info. Do you take that precaution?? Sites like facebook and such have tons of spyware and such and unknowns add HUGE risk. I was told upfront by a web developer that I should use a seperate PC to access my site and make use of confidential info. A PC that is used for that only and NOT for browsing the web.
If any of you guys have stored someone else's complete credit card or account numbers on this "cloud" backup, I will garan-F%^&ing-tee that you are in violation of laws and policies and you had better remove them.
I have heard of this "cloud" storage before. A friend claimed that there has been a small bit of push to use that rather than having an actual harddrive on a PC. That is something that should NEVER happen. Besides, did you guys know that the US Gobment can probably access your info stored there? I would put money on that, whether you ever know or not. Or care or not. Don't put any increminating evidence on there. Maybe if you store new ideas and inventions on there, these US gobment asses will sell your ideas to the Chinese. I would laugh at you then. HA
Now... I think I'm gonna dream up some unnecessary service to CON you people to pay for. Seems to be the norm. And I can get rich from your foolishness. I'll be laughing twice as hard then. HA HA
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Sent from the wife's PC which NEVER FORNEVER EVER sees anyone else's confidential info.