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data loss and temporary outages at those big companies are not unheard of. using flickr to share your photos with everyone is not the same as using google docs
by there 18y ago
data loss and temporary outages at those big companies are not unheard of.
using flickr to share your photos with everyone is not the same as using google docs to store all of your personal and private documents.
but why not simply set your mother up with an automatic online backup system to store a copy of her files in the cloud instead of requiring that the master copies be there? that way she retains privacy (assuming the encryption of the provider is trusted) but gains portability by having a copy available online. something like dropbox comes to mind here.
- Zev 18y agoI can't remember ever losing an email or photo from gmail or flickr. Yes, there's some downtimes (one big one with gmail and a few small ones spread out with flickr), but nothing show-stopping (note: you could still access emails with html-only gmail if you needed)
- diggydo 18y agoShould we also home-school our children, keep our money under our mattress, grow our own food, give ourselves medical exams? There are companies/service providers out there who we outsource those things to because we don't have the time or the expertise. Seriously people have been using web-based email for over a decade. I've yet to hear of any doomsday failures but I do know I've had a couple hard drive failures during that time span.
- shard 18y agoShould we also home-school our children, keep our money under our mattress, grow our own food, give ourselves medical exams? Hmm, my family does all of the above as a supplement of commercial/public versions all the time. (In the case of home-schooling, we plan to once our child arrives.)
- tjpick 18y ago> Should we also home-school our children, keep our money under our mattress, grow our own food, give ourselves medical exams? There are companies/service providers out there grow some salad greens and tomatoes and eat those instead of McDonalds? self check for breast or testicular cancer (whichever applies)? take an active role in your child's education? I should hope so. I'll give you the money under the mattress point. No return on investment. However you should be managing it yourself in some form.
- ntoshev 18y agoThe cloud is statistically much more reliable than your home computer.