Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud Date: 12 Mar 2015 09:38:15 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <4khjsb-2oj.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> <54f73bc4$0$38615$b1db1813$5ba256c5@news.astraweb.com> <7p5ksb-n64.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 9SkJEyRJJTmabW+cFdF80AF+YzE5ZsBKULWwqcGm4p7G9DfoEw Cancel-Lock: sha1:ra0fDKSkP/2v5fVdsU97OglmdQ0= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14026 On 2015-03-11, John F wrote: > > "Robert Heller" wrote in message > news:r8GdnVmSCY3wCZ3InZ2dnUU7-IudnZ2d@giganews.com... >> At 11 Mar 2015 17:45:37 GMT Charlie Gibbs wrote: [45 lines snipped] >>> A friend recently lost a lot of valuable photos due to Cloud failure. >>> Even if there's no malice involved, shit happens. My advice is never to store anything "in the cloud" unless you can afford to have it stolen or lost. > Exactly - and you can purchase a 1TB drive and a fireproof safe to put it in > for less than the cost of a years rental on a good cloud server - even if > the cloud server is free, it costs you in terms of dealing with the > advertizing and spyware etc delivered with all the public services nowadays You don't even need the safe if you have somewhere "off site" to store the disk - I keep mine in my locker at work. -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 71st day of Chaos in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.