Beyond the hype [SOLVED]
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I'm an independant developer, and a very bad admin, that is just not my job. I don't want to spend time and money, buying and installing my own server. I don't want to spend money on a classic hosted server, because I'm not sure how much resources I need, and I don't want to administrate the things. I don't want call these stupid guys when the server goes down for whatever reason. So I just host my app on the cloud. Cheaper, easier, less admin stuff, that's great.
... and you loose control over all the data. I still cannot understand why so many companies want to store vital data outside of their server rooms just because they cannot hire the right boys to guard them. Every single file you are not able to control can compromise your business one day. Remember, there are dozens of organizations which could be interested in all that stuff. It is simply a bad habit to be too promiscous with all the information one can have in his life. But yes, as all people use gmail and google docs, nobody seems to care for that anymore. The fact that it worked until today is a good argument that it will work in the future, isn´t it? regards Florian
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... and you loose control over all the data. I still cannot understand why so many companies want to store vital data outside of their server rooms just because they cannot hire the right boys to guard them. Every single file you are not able to control can compromise your business one day. Remember, there are dozens of organizations which could be interested in all that stuff. It is simply a bad habit to be too promiscous with all the information one can have in his life. But yes, as all people use gmail and google docs, nobody seems to care for that anymore. The fact that it worked until today is a good argument that it will work in the future, isn´t it? regards Florian
If an admin would be free, I'll prefer to host the data inside my company. But it's not free. For a big company, I understand that the cost of an administrator is nothing compared to potential loss. In the case of small company, hiring the wrong person can make you die.