I have seen over the last year or so people recommending cloud storage for a variety of things. I have noticed over the last six months or so that the outages of these services seems to be increasing. This is just the ones I remember and the reason why I prefer to have all my data local and totally under my control..
Microsoft Azure Cloud. Down 22nd february 2013. They forgot to renew an SSL certificate. They also went down last year on the 29th February. Guess what? It was another Certificate issue They have also had other outages affecting small subsections of their services over the last year.
Amazon AWS services. They had an outage at Christmas which affected many service providers including Netflix. So if you wanted to watch Miracle on 34th street you were out of luck. If you are like me and prefer local storage no issue. Amazon have had loads of outages over the last year another big one in October took out Reddit, imgur and Heroku.
Apple iCloud. Has an outage going on right now. They also got exploited last year and a journalist had his mac, iPhone and ipad remotely wiped. He lost everything. He admits he didn't take adequate precautions but.... Apple seem to be having almost monthly problems
Dropbox has had it's share of outages as well... Broken Link Removed
I can't think of any other cloud providers off the top of my head.
I am just so happy I keep all my data local and don't rely on "the cloud" at all.
Microsoft is moving to online office apps (Office 365). Now just imagine you want to write a quick letter and get it in the post before last delivery. Cloud down you are screwed. Googles online services are just as at risk. You get a new Chrome laptop which does everything online. You want to check your calendar so see if the appointment is at 9:30 or 10:30 (scatter brained like me?) google cloud is down.....
There are many many examples.
I personally want to keep my data local, under my control and quickly accessible.
Why have I posted this rant? A family member has just contacted me frantic because they need Certain data which is only available through a currently down cloud service. I have warned this family member a number of times. It was very hard to restrain myself from saying I told you sooh:.
I'll shut up now
Microsoft Azure Cloud. Down 22nd february 2013. They forgot to renew an SSL certificate. They also went down last year on the 29th February. Guess what? It was another Certificate issue They have also had other outages affecting small subsections of their services over the last year.
Amazon AWS services. They had an outage at Christmas which affected many service providers including Netflix. So if you wanted to watch Miracle on 34th street you were out of luck. If you are like me and prefer local storage no issue. Amazon have had loads of outages over the last year another big one in October took out Reddit, imgur and Heroku.
Apple iCloud. Has an outage going on right now. They also got exploited last year and a journalist had his mac, iPhone and ipad remotely wiped. He lost everything. He admits he didn't take adequate precautions but.... Apple seem to be having almost monthly problems
Dropbox has had it's share of outages as well... Broken Link Removed
I can't think of any other cloud providers off the top of my head.
I am just so happy I keep all my data local and don't rely on "the cloud" at all.
Microsoft is moving to online office apps (Office 365). Now just imagine you want to write a quick letter and get it in the post before last delivery. Cloud down you are screwed. Googles online services are just as at risk. You get a new Chrome laptop which does everything online. You want to check your calendar so see if the appointment is at 9:30 or 10:30 (scatter brained like me?) google cloud is down.....
There are many many examples.
I personally want to keep my data local, under my control and quickly accessible.
Why have I posted this rant? A family member has just contacted me frantic because they need Certain data which is only available through a currently down cloud service. I have warned this family member a number of times. It was very hard to restrain myself from saying I told you sooh:.
I'll shut up now