Comments on: Cloud Computing: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly http://irunabiz.com/tech/2008/12/16/cloud-computing-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ Helping Small and Home Businesses Use Technology Make More Money Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:50:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://irunabiz.com/tech/2008/12/16/cloud-computing-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-31 admin Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:19:36 +0000 http://irunabiz.com/tech/?p=140#comment-31 Jean, thats a very real concern. If you have unreliable service it may not be a good idea. Even if you have reliable service (I had about 2 hrs of downtime in the last year) if you need to have a backup plan (like a cell phone internet card), As far as records. I strongly believe that you should save to a local drive anything that you need to have for records on a regular basis. You can never have enough backups :-) Jean, thats a very real concern. If you have unreliable service it may not be a good idea. Even if you have reliable service (I had about 2 hrs of downtime in the last year) if you need to have a backup plan (like a cell phone internet card),
As far as records. I strongly believe that you should save to a local drive anything that you need to have for records on a regular basis. You can never have enough backups :-)

]]> By: Jean Murray http://irunabiz.com/tech/2008/12/16/cloud-computing-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Jean Murray Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:29:39 +0000 http://irunabiz.com/tech/?p=140#comment-29 I like the "cloud computing" concept, but it always makes me nervous to be putting things up "in the clouds" and not being able to get to them if the Internet goes down (which it does occasionally here at my home business). For example, I work with a non-profit organization and we have all our documents on Online File Folder (from GoDaddy). God forbid we don't pay our monthly bill, or that we have problems with passwords or access. Also, if the IRS wanted to audit us, we would have to print out everything. I don't think they want to go searching around on the Internet for our stuff. I like the “cloud computing” concept, but it always makes me nervous to be putting things up “in the clouds” and not being able to get to them if the Internet goes down (which it does occasionally here at my home business).
For example, I work with a non-profit organization and we have all our documents on Online File Folder (from GoDaddy). God forbid we don’t pay our monthly bill, or that we have problems with passwords or access.

Also, if the IRS wanted to audit us, we would have to print out everything. I don’t think they want to go searching around on the Internet for our stuff.

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