Cloud Storage became cloudy..

AsheGuy wrote:
I got an email from Dropbox this week about this issue as seen in the image below.


I use both Dropbox and Google Drive cloud storage. I use Dropbox for all non-Google app documents that I want synced to all my devices (this is the default on Dropbox) so they are there whether I am online or not.

I use Google Drive for all Google App documents and photos. I have a Google Drive "Legacy" account since I was an early adopter. As you can see in the image below, I only pay $5.00/yr and are only using 7% of my available storage. Google photos do not count against that limit as long as they are "High Quality" uploads (what my phone photos are uploaded as).


So, as you can see I may be rethinking my use of the two based on Dropbox's new costs (non now).

Shades of Photobucket holding your stuff "hostage"?

Yep, enough folks have taken the "bait" (cloud), the hook has been "set" and now the "cloud" is "realing" in all of the suckers that bought into all of the easy free "syncing" stuff..

Now that you have gotten your life depending so heavily on this cloud storage your life will literally come to a dead stop if the Internet fails or the cloud provider decides to change rules or even completely stop providing.

Think about this..

Ask yourself the question, Do I REALLY "NEED" all of my stuff "synced"?

Do I REALLY "NEED" all of my docs and photos accessible 24/7/365?

I don't.

My cellphone is not synced to anything else, not to my desktop PC or any of my other specially built PCs but yet, I do have my contacts on my phone "backed up" to a SD card that I inserted into my phone.

On that card I have only a few photos and docs that I might wish to show folks but that is it.

I keep my own "backups" of everything important to me on different hard drives which I can keep in my own fire resistant safe.

I don't live with my cellphone 24/7/365, nope only on me going to work and back home. When I get home it gets put on the counter in the kitchen and that is where it lives all of the other hrs of the day..

I learned a long, long time ago that putting your faith into online Internet storage (which IS what the "cloud" is) whether Paid or free is a fools paradise..

Learned that when one online storage that I paid for just up a disappeared, vanished into the wobbly web with no refund and no online storage..

My warning to folks is not to totally depend on anything on the Internet "Cloud", terms of service can and will change anytime the vendor wants to do so. Free can become paid and the service can be changed, altered or completely abandoned with little on no notice.