Texas | paul the original - 12/6/2019 12:05
Negatives is that pictures and videos take a huge amount of space and internet data time/ bandwidth to move. My iPad filled the free space in 2 weeks, I’m not going to pay a fee to someone every month for them to have my info. I can buy my own backup equipment that works much much faster than the rural internet system. It nearly used up my cell data plan in 2 days, out of the box it was set up,to burn up every possible option it could to use everything to load up the Apple servers with my info. I was not really amused.
The data you send off to who knows where is being held who knows where, and may be used by who knows who. It’s out there in the Internet somewhere, typically the offshore server farms are cheaper and your data will be in a foreign country.
These services can flick a switch and end. That has happened with a few backup and picture storage firms in the past. If you depend on that cloud as the one spot to store your stuff, it can be gone at the end of any month when the service decides or is forced to close.
So, they can be convenient if you know how to use them. It’s really nice to share info among family or a business environment.
They can open up security issues and ultimately are not really that rock solid as a backup, only offer one more layer of storage as long as that company stays afloat.
If you don’t know what it is and don’t use it, shut it all down. No point to it.
Making backups is a good idea, really good idea, have you worked on any plan to back up stuff? Using the cloud is a convenience.
Paul
I disagree with a lot of this. Major cloud services like Microsoft, Apple, drop box, back blaze, etc are not going to up and vanish in the dark of the night. Sure anything is possible but they have so much redundancy and such huge customer bases that if they were to decide to shut down there would be an exit plan and notifications. I personally have three copies of my data that I make myself and also have my data on the cloud.
One thing the cloud offers that probably over 90 percent of people don’t have or do is offsite backup that is frequently updated. For example my cloud is backing up every single thing on my computer every night while I am sleeping. The data is not stored at my house it is in their servers. If you do your backups locally do you do them every night? Do you do them every night and move this data to an offsite location? A backup to an external hard drive sitting on your desk does you little good if your house is burglarized and the thief takes both your computer and the hard drive or if your house burns down.
As for cloud security or privacy concerns my data is all encrypted before it is sent to the cloud. No one is seeing anything.
Edited by Drilldo 12/7/2019 09:45
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