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I hate the Cloud, I hate the Cloud...

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Published 3rd December 2015 |

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I feel better now for getting that off my chest

Last Friday, our wonderful Cloud solution went bang and I've been in a world of chaos ever since. Luckily it's only our internal data, and its all safe, just currently not accessible

I've never liked the cloud, have always been a cloud cynic, and now have been proven right... After the plan B cloud solution also let us down yesterday, I've decided to bring it back to the office and use good old fashioned NAS (network attached storage) or big hard drives plugged into our local network.

For anyone considering moving your business data to a cloud solution, think and choose wisely!

So it's spanners, socket wrench and NAS for dummies out tomorrow while I build us an internal solution.

Anyone mention the Cloud again will be banned

Steve Richardson
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4th December 2015 12:17 PM

Its ok for you lot to just read his posts.

Spare a thought for the side kick when things go wrong - i have to work with him

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4th December 2015 7:32 PM

lol ... I am a sceptic like you and have never trusted the cloud , partly because access to the cloud is so weird partly because I don't trust it .. If it's important to me I back it up on 2 hard drives and and sometimes also on disk

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7th December 2015 8:34 AM

Well after a week of data chaos, finally seem to be back on an even keel.

Have decided to go with a RAID 1 4TB Synology NAS Server. Seems to have gone very smoothly, synchronising nicely at home as well as in the office, no more monthly fees and dubious support.

Early days, but calm is returning, now just have a weeks worth of work to catch up on

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9th December 2015 4:20 PM

At home we have all our photos etc. backed up on several clouds but also use a NAS and hard drives. I don't trust just ONE solution! Data is too precious.

I use a cloud accounting system for work and that does scare me a little as if it went kaput I'd be in trouble!!

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11th December 2015 1:47 PM

Why would any one want to store it in the clouds. Surely a bit of marketing spin could get us to store it in the sunshine #marginallyofftopic

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11th December 2015 2:12 PM

Originally Posted by mrb

“Why would any one want to store it in the clouds. Surely a bit of marketing spin could get us to store it in the sunshine

#marginallyofftopic”

Well data was stored in the clouds of doom, but now our happy little NAS is a ray of sunshine.

Look at it, 4TB, mirrored, hotswap drives, dual network cards, tiny and most importantly it's quiet! Can also be used as a media server, web, email or ftp server.

Versus our noisy old old 500GB Windows file server, 2x domain controllers and exchange server.

Big smiles all round #gettingobsessed