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I live in the bible belt for crying out loud of course we use cloud services...every Sunday.
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We just moved into a new building my employer built. By design, there is no server room. We no longer have servers in-house; everything but our desktops and a few switches, and our legacy midi-frame, are in the AWS cloud.
I love how easy it is to spin up a new server, kill it when you no longer need it, control access to them and the various subnets from one place.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Once upon a time you could get "Fogbugz for your server" for $200.00. I was a cheap arse and didn't do it. 
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I'm currently using Azure's API Management to control how my API's accessed from the outside. Out of the box it contains very useful features that are easy to setup:
- Usage quota
- IP Restriction
- Encapsulate a set of API's into one product you can expose to specific clients
- Provides a very easy way to mock a response
- Can manipulate what comes in, happens in the middle and comes out on the response.
- Provides a single point to implement security without having to modify the APIs
Really cool.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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almost like christmas as a kid... which present/option do I start with first? does that make seeing the results the same as the reveal when the present is unwrapped?
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Cloud Applications:
- you data is held hostage
- "well, we think the updates are cute!"
Cloud Storage
- External web down? OK - Everyone gets the day off! Yippee!
- We've Increased our Fees retroactively to 2007: please forward remittance to restore access
- We've gotten a bit of a virus - try again later, or better, tomorrow.
They'll have to unwrap my cold dead fingers from my storage array . . . .
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How To Send The File - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-04-04 | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
modified 4-Apr-16 10:29am.
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I shared your attitude for a long time.
Then I realised that setting up a server farm, in a clean, air conditioned environment, with sufficient floor loading and backup servers on a different site, firewalls, switches, miles of cable, uninterruptable power supplies with surge limiters, hiring competent (or at least that's what they told me) staff to manage and maintain it and then to discover that we had grown and needed a larger room etc,etc,etc was not so glorious when I could just hook into a cloud server, have a predictable cost structure with no enormous installation overhead, with automatic system backups, built in security and nastyware protection and use my existing staff.
It was a no brainer.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Herbie Mountjoy wrote: It was a no brainer.
I always defer to my brain when making decisions.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Nastiest and prettiest one-liner I ever saw since the action movies of the 80's 
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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It was a no brainer.
I always defer to my brain when making decisions.
 if I had a brain I would come up with a snappy answer.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I worked for an internet based company that held people hostage (specifically their data). I literally quit because of it!
So, we had 2 EMC SAN boxes (1 in each state) of about 2TB at the time. And Increasing. 12 blade servers (which consumed so much power, we were constantly over our power draw). And paying pretty heavily to sync the data to the backup location.
Because, during a hurricane here in FL, our primary systems went down with the hosting company (weakest link, and all), and took all of our customers offline, nationwide (hey we were just starting up).
Today, it is moved to the cloud (AWS), and it scales between 4 servers and 16 servers based on demand. The 2TB is now 8TB and is backed up for us. Comparing 10 year segments. We had more issues with power, networking, and device failure when we ran our own environment.
The company will die on the vine as its customers die and its business loses relevance. But it is being maintained without developers, and a part time IT guy to keep the servers running/patched.
I have a NAS box in my home office. Gigabit is often TOO SLOW. I can't imagine backing up over the internet.
But I can't imagine not considering the cloud resources. I used to have a physical server for my own small company. It is SO MUCH cheaper to use AWS. No box to buy every 3-5 years. No "regular" visits to the hosting company. etc. etc.
It seems like not wanting to live in a city because their is more crime. But being stuck in the boonies where there is nothing to do!
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A cloud is just fog higher up in the air. I don't like to be stuck in some fog. At best/worst it will just give you something to blame if the sh*t doesn't work.
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Many, many moons ago, we had a Centralised System, with a Mainframe run by Operators we never saw, but who controlled our data with an iron fist. Sometimes, he would lose our data, sometimes he would back it up. But we never knew which.
And this was Bad.
So the personal computer was born, and we called it "the PC". And users could control their own data, and the BOFH was banished into the wilderness.
And the PC was networked and it was Even Better.
So they designed a Network Computer, where the storage was not local, and the users went "Like really? Go Forth And Multiply BOFH" (for they recognised the Evil Ones attempts to regain control) and Lo! They stayed away in droves.
And much effort was put into the paradigm: and it was good.
Then came the cloud: central data, but Improved! This time, it was contracted out to people who didn't work for the company, didn't have a major stake in the company survival, and who were often in a different country, employing minimum wage people to manage the hardware. And some don't do everything they promised... 9 Spectacular Cloud Computing Fails - InformationWeek[^]
Hand company critical or commercially sensitive data to total unknowns and trust them to back it up, employ sufficient security, and not go bust or run away with th money? No. No thank you...
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree with you. But still use it when need more backup because more the merrier 
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Beginner Luck wrote: because more the merrier
An excellent way to make a technical decision.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Beginner Luck wrote: because more the merrier
pwasser wrote: An excellent way to make a technical decision.
But, it was good enough to create the Internet, right? 
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What use is a backup you can't trust? And haven't tested?
Plus...the cost of backups to the cloud are silly: my system backs up to multiple USB (and NAS, I'm paranoid about backups) drives and each image occupies 154GB. Over my FTC broadband connection (40Mb/s down, 8Mb/s up) that would take 42 hours to upload, assuming nothing else was happening, and ignoring packaging - call it two days!
And cloud storage costs for that is about $3.50 / month.
And I keep multiple backups: I can restore to the same time last year if I needed to. I backup every week, (and have local incrementals daily, and hourly), so that's about $2200 per year to store it all.
That's just not viable: it's cheaper to buy a new 1TB SSD every month and post it to my aunt in New Zealand!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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We now hand sensitive information to others who assure us they are keeping it safe - on the cloud of course.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Amen.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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But, you're not including Google in this, right?
I mean, they got you covered, right? Google Drive is fine.
Right?
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I have thought about it. The only thing I would consider keeping on the cloud is my trash basket ... and I would still want to encrypt it.
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I just looked up how much a new tape robot would cost us.
Just to note that there are hardly any for sale anymore. 
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