Hurricane reminder why I love the cloud
As I watch the relentless progress of Hurricane Ian towards Florida, where I have several relatives and friends sheltering, I am once again reminded of how great it is to keep most of my digital stuff in the cloud and not locally. A few years ago I read about someone who escaped Houston's floods during Hurricane Harvey with not much more than the clothes he was wearing, but was able to keep working because he just went into a store, bought a new Chromebook, and logged back in to find all of his email, files, photos, etc. Just in day-to-day life I find cloud stuff saves me constantly, like when on vacation and I get an urgent message from work that something has to be done ASAP. I can't imagine going back to desktop email with local storage.
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May I ask how much disk space in the cloud do you use?
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For many years I had Pixel phones with unlimited Google Photos storage, but that has ended. At the moment I have about 33GB in the cloud.
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100GB for $19.99 a year on Google 1.
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If I go to GMX.net I get the German language site and it shows the free version provides 1GB of email storage and 2GB of cloud storage. Not seeing the free 100GB of storage. https://www.gmx.net/mail/#.pc_page.h...index.nav.mail
Looks like you can buy 100GB of storage for 1.99 Euros a month, which is similar to Google 1 pricing here in the USA. https://www.gmx.net/cloud/#.pc_page....footer_7.cloud |
My two 'primary' 'clouds' are in Fastmail's File Storage and my webhost account. Technically I'm not supposed to 'just store' files on my web hosts computers, but if I have a bunch of pictures that are displayed by a gallery script or something, that's OK. I'm paying about $50/yr for the email service and my web account would cost me a bit around $100/yr, but it's free for me because I used to be a moderator on their now nonexistant ( :( ) forum. At the moment I have other things to keep in mind than how 'big my clouds are', I just know for a fact that I'm only using a small fraction of that combined space, and that fraction has had a real slow grow rate for the last decade or so..
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With up to 12 feet of storm surge along Florida's southwest coast there will be a lot of computers, hard drives, and servers underwater soon! Plus, power is likely to be out for a long time over a large area.
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My acct has been used for 15 years, and i saw it increased every year (just my case). besides this, if you own a alumni email from university (domain ends with .edu), you can apply for OneDrive for 1TB storage with this email. I have two this email (BA in CN, MA in USA), so I have double 1TB store from OneDrive. But I don't trust MS, so used them very few. |
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