Cloud Storage became cloudy..

AsheGuy wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:
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.

Wow, holding my stuff hostage? Dropbox has been free to me up till now. Dropbox is now attempting to charge a little for its use. $99/year if I choose to subscribe is a nit considering what it does.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions. My opinion is no one is keeping me hostage and I personally get great value from cloud storage. I've never lost any files/photos and don't fear such loss as long as I stick to solid providers. I do a hard drive back for both Google Drive and Dropbox content occasionally, it's takes just a click of the mouse but I have never had to use the backup.

Not only that, Dropbox does't just store your stuff on their site. It's first saved locally on my machine then automatically uploaded and copied to any other machine I choose to have sync. That's an automatic backup with the benefit of web access should I end up needing some information when I'm away from my computers.

If they pull the plug or go under, I still have my (several) copies so no hostage taking there. I much prefer that to simple "cloud" storage. Yes, I'm paying for it because you don't get something for nothing and I use far more than the free version provides.