Cloud Vs. Hosting?

[Ice Rich]

Hi all,

Seen loads of talk recently about 'Cloud' which I presume is related to google? If so, is it exactly like dropbox but with better rates? Is it for website hosting also or just data?

Thanks.

 

[Ice Rich]

Rich, are you a member of the vidahost forum? I explained on there to you if you are

You get around Sach Yes, it is me. Thanks again for your help, will catch you on MSN too hopefully.

Think I understand more now. 'Cloud' is more a system and 'DropBox' or 'Google Drive' adaptations of it.
I initially would have thought the majority of people would not need such large amounts of info stored online especially as it is a paid for service? Why not just make use of sending emails to yourself as the limits are quite large now.

But thinking about it, the ability to access your photos, music, documents (which could go into the GB's of size) anywhere, would be quite useful.
What is to say though this would not turn into the next rapidshare or megaupload? Are they marketing it with the main benefit being cross platform and ease of use support?

 

[Ice Rich]

Why drive a car when you have a pair of legs?

That has confused me slightly but I presume you mean the service 'dropbox' or googledrive' offers is much more flexible (and faster!) then the faff of self emailing etc?

 

[Ice Rich]

No that's a great reply and I fully understand now,

The cloud 'bubble' seems to be everywhere with a lot of talk being how revolutionary it is going to be. I thought I was missing something obvious.