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Seeing as I haven't heard of it, it doesn't seem to meet my criteria of being popular enough to be likely to be around in 50 years. EDIT: It's Glacier I haven'

by storer 11y ago

Seeing as I haven't heard of it, it doesn't seem to meet my criteria of being popular enough to be likely to be around in 50 years. EDIT: It's Glacier I haven't heard of, not Amazon.

seffignoz 11y ago
It has the same chance (or maybe higher) to be around in the next 50 years, than the the one in the list you provided. Also check AWS S3 out, it all depends on your use case (eg., do you need to access said files on a regular basis?(S3) or you just want to store them and never access them in the next years (Glacier) ?
danso 11y ago
So...which cloud services are you thinking of that have been around 50 years, for you to be able to establish some kind of rough baseline of what popularity is needed for such longevity? I'm coming up with blanks myself... In any case, I think the criteria of "I haven't heard of it" is a little strict, given you've made an open question asking for advice on what to use...you should be open to the possibility that there are people here with expertise who know of things that you haven't heard of. For example, you don't seem to have heard of Amazon S3, which Dropbox is based off of. Amazon is also the company behind Glacier, and while Amazon is far from being a sure bet of lasting 50 years, it's a good as bet as any company.
Veratyr 11y ago
Dropbox (which you have heard of) is built on top of Amazon S3. Glacier is a sibling product to S3 and similiarly unlikely to disappear.
- storer 11y ago
  Just because Dropbox uses S3 right now doesn't mean they always will. If S3 goes down, Dropbox will probably just use something else.
  - danso 11y ago
    Honestly curious...what's your knowledge of the company named Amazon? That is, how much smaller do you think Amazon is (by any metric, market cap, revenue, size of engineering operations) compared to Dropbox?
- akhatri_aus 11y ago
  Dropbox doesn't use S3 anymore. They did initially. That being said S3 is a pretty good solution.
  - kooshball 11y ago
    What do they use now?
    - toomuchtodo 11y ago
      Possibly OpenStack's Swift. Its API-compliantish with S3.
mod 11y ago
You haven't heard of Amazon and their web services? I don't think you can guarantee 50 years, regardless of number of services used. But you'll have plenty of time to offload them before any of these big names shut down. Also, I'd guess this is your best bet for > 50 years.
scurvy 11y ago
You're asking for cloud storage recommendations and haven't heard of Amazon S3?

by storer 11y ago

Seeing as I haven't heard of it, it doesn't seem to meet my criteria of being popular enough to be likely to be around in 50 years. EDIT: It's Glacier I haven't heard of, not Amazon.

seffignoz 11y ago

It has the same chance (or maybe higher) to be around in the next 50 years, than the the one in the list you provided. Also check AWS S3 out, it all depends on your use case (eg., do you need to access said files on a regular basis?(S3) or you just want to store them and never access them in the next years (Glacier) ?

danso 11y ago

So...which cloud services are you thinking of that have been around 50 years, for you to be able to establish some kind of rough baseline of what popularity is needed for such longevity? I'm coming up with blanks myself... In any case, I think the criteria of "I haven't heard of it" is a little strict, given you've made an open question asking for advice on what to use...you should be open to the possibility that there are people here with expertise who know of things that you haven't heard of. For example, you don't seem to have heard of Amazon S3, which Dropbox is based off of. Amazon is also the company behind Glacier, and while Amazon is far from being a sure bet of lasting 50 years, it's a good as bet as any company.

Veratyr 11y ago

Dropbox (which you have heard of) is built on top of Amazon S3. Glacier is a sibling product to S3 and similiarly unlikely to disappear.

storer 11y ago
Just because Dropbox uses S3 right now doesn't mean they always will. If S3 goes down, Dropbox will probably just use something else.
- danso 11y ago
  Honestly curious...what's your knowledge of the company named Amazon? That is, how much smaller do you think Amazon is (by any metric, market cap, revenue, size of engineering operations) compared to Dropbox?
akhatri_aus 11y ago
Dropbox doesn't use S3 anymore. They did initially. That being said S3 is a pretty good solution.
- kooshball 11y ago
  What do they use now?
  - toomuchtodo 11y ago
    Possibly OpenStack's Swift. Its API-compliantish with S3.

mod 11y ago

You haven't heard of Amazon and their web services? I don't think you can guarantee 50 years, regardless of number of services used. But you'll have plenty of time to offload them before any of these big names shut down. Also, I'd guess this is your best bet for > 50 years.

scurvy 11y ago

You're asking for cloud storage recommendations and haven't heard of Amazon S3?