Reality Check: There is No 'Cloud' – Phandroid : vim

publishUpdated   Jun 9th, 2021, 10:24 am
Ten years ago, the “cloud” was still a novel idea for many. A good number of folks didn’t trust the idea. But the many excellent services out there won most of us over with huge amounts of free or affordable storage, easy accessibility, great security features, and more. Today, most web users take advantage of cloud storage as a file sharing app, a way of keeping your laptop from being overwhelmed, etc.  – Most of us like and trust the cloud.
Data cloud storage centers are, for the most part, highly secure facilities with top-of-the-line security measures in place: they think and plan for all possibilities. Your family photos, for example, are backed up multiple times by providers… as they obviously have a very strong vested interest in not losing your data. There are also systems in place to re-route data and, as noted, with any decent cloud service, data is almost always stored in more than one site. Cloud providers rehearse for disasters and have a very good record – almost perfect, in fact. But “acts of God” do still happen. If the unimaginable were to happens, however, you’d want to be one of the cloud-service clients who considered options and prepared by having a “disaster plan.”