Re:Google Photos – Can I get out?
by Dylan16807 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @03:29PM
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At least you generally get a warning for a cloud service going down. Then it's around as much hassle as a single component of the NAS failing.
I'm not sure what's more likely, a trustworthy-looking service disappearing out of the blue, or a RAIDed NAS being damaged in a way that data is lost.
Re:Google Photos – Can I get out?
by thrownaway2424 on Saturday May 30, 2015 @03:30PM
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Since I've never heard of "Webshots" that seems like a bit of cherry picking. Flickr and Smugmug have both been hosting photos continuously for over a decade.
As per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webshots):
"By 2004, Webshots was grossing $15M/year, had more than 200,000 paid subscribers, and was the #1 photo sharing site and top 50 media property per ComScore. In the same year, Alexa ranked Webshots the second largest English language privately held Web media property (behind weather.com)."
Other photo-storage sites that are no longer around include Streamload, Kodak Gallery, Nirvanix, Snapjoy and Everpix.
I won't count Twitpics as it was a posting service, not a storage service, but I expect there are a few closures I've missed....
What auto-repairing filesystem do you use?
_My_ datastore still exists and proudly provides those files from my redundantly stored, checksummed, auto-repairing local filesystem. No, I don't have an off-site backup. But neither had Webshots once they decided to shut down.