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We also reserve the right to suspend or end the Services at any time at our discretion and without notice. https://www.dropbox.com/terms https://www.dropbox.co
by j_s 12y ago
We also reserve the right to suspend or end the Services at any time at our discretion and without notice.
https://www.dropbox.com/terms https://www.dropbox.com/terms
- Dewie 12y agoSo I guess the conclusion is that no mainstream cloud service is to be relied on.
- hengheng 12y agoWell, these big services probably close down as often as an end user sees their hard drive fail.
- belorn 12y agoThis is not about a company closing down. Its about a company deciding to close their services for a user, arbitrarily, at their own discretion. Files you upload can be permanent deleted, at any time, at the whim of the service provider or any of their employees. You have no rights and no appeals.
- Dewie 12y agoThe difference is that a user doesn't feel like just using his computer normally gives him any backup. But if his folder is inside Dropbox, he might be lulled into a sense of comfort since he thinks of Dropbox as a kind of backup[1]. So if he uses Dropbox instead of just using his plain old computer (hard drive), then he might start to get more careless than when he didn't feel that he had a safety net. [1] Though personally I would disagree.
- dfinninger 12y agohttps://owncloud.org/ https://owncloud.org/
- sz4kerto 12y agoCan't your hosting provider terminate your contract?
- vinceguidry 12y agoUse multiple services and replicate between them.
- zkhalique 12y agoMay as well use MaidSafe or Freenet
- jiffytick 12y agoI always thought Tor hidden services make a great way to host your own cloud. Not only can you host on your own hardware without messing with dns, isp reps, and router settings, but you get privacy features for free. IMO, I think local hosting is the primary usecase the Tor project should be advertizing.
- dublinben 12y agoHidden services are not a primary concern of the Tor Project, or a primary use of the Tor network. They are a novel way of using a system designed for anonymous and censorship-resistant communications.
- robotresearcher 12y agoDoes no one have their own physical box any more?
- vinceguidry 12y agoDoesn't solve the problem. The essential nature of the problem is that your data can disappear under circumstances that you can't control, be it because the server died, problems with the host, they're going away entirely, they decide they don't like you anymore. To fix all permutations of this problem, you have to replicate, host the data in multiple physical places. It introduces another problem, managing the replication and testing to make sure it's working, but if the data you're trying to protect is important enough, you devote the resources. Looked at in this light, hosting your own physical box is less useful than using two separate online services. You still have the management and testing overhead either way, but with your own physical box you also have to maintain and manage that resource too. That only makes sense if you have existing infrastructure you can plug into, and sometimes it doesn't even make sense then.
- TillE 12y agoRealistically, you can't rely on anything. You should always have independent redundancy for stuff that's really important.
- notatoad 12y agoThe conclusion should be that unless you're paying for an SLA, you aren't going to get an SLA.