Keep in mind, you are only paying for what you use. In the even you DO lose a file, you can simply restore it within dropbox by clicking "show deleted files". I could safely ship my desktop computer knowing everything was backed up. When I moved from New York City to Poland, I purchased the 50 gig option, and put EVERYTHING (music, files and photos) in dropbox. Very handy, you don't even need to email files and folders. You can control who has access to this folder, and anytime you add or remove something to this folder, your friends will have access to the files. So you might have a folder in your dropbox folder called "for friends". You can share folders with friends and colleagues. Files aren't so much STORED on the cloud as they are SYNCED on the cloud, and with approved devices.īut wait, there's more. Cool, huh? even if you lose network access you will still have access to your files. So basically, anywhere you save, the file is updated on all the other computers that are connected to dropbox. If you a smartphone, and you've setup dropbox, it can be automatically updated there as well. If you work on Budget at Home, it will be automatically saved to your Work and Laptop. So your budget file is automatically added to your Home and Laptop computers. every computer that is linked to your dropbox account then synchronizes that file. You save this file to your dropbox folder. Let's say you are on your Work computer and you create a file called Budget. The neat thing about dropbox (and their ilk) is how they synchronize files across several different computers. I use dropbox (watch the video on the front page) as my cloud based storage solution. If you are working on a file on your Laptop, there is no way for that file to be automatically added or synced to your Work or Home machines. Some organizations set up systems where you can access your Work files from your Home or Laptop computers, but this requires no small amount of careful configuration. Most organizations have a file server that securely stores your files. if you create a file on Home, you will not be able to access a file from Work). If you are using local file storage (your hard disk) you will not be able to access the files from another computer (e.g. Let's say you have three computers called Home, Laptop, and Work. Unlike traditional file servers, cloud-based file servers sync excellently. The cool thing about most cloud-based file servers is how they keep files available even when there is no network access. Starting in the 8th grade, our middle school integrator is testing dropbox. We are slowly moving our students to dropbox. My experience in cloud-based storage has been overwhelmingly positive. I think you are asking about substituting an in-house file-server with cloud-based file server. This distinction is important because I know many people who use gmail as storage. Purpose-built file storage, as opposed email-as-storage or google-docs as storage. I think of cloud-based storage as "file-storage service located on a remote cluster of high-availability servers, designed to be accessed anywhere, anytime, from anywhere with secure collaborative capabilities." "Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction." Ref: here The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a somewhat more objective and specific definition: I can’t quite get my head wrapped around this concept, but am willing to try.įirst of all, let's get some terminology out of the way, just to be sure we are all on the same page. I would be interested in your experience, if you have made the switch, in moving to the ”clouds” for data storage. Posted in Blogging Educational Tech HOWTO web 2.0 The user should then be able to edit /var/If you are logged in as you need to log out and log back in for the group membership to take effect. If you make /var/www writeable by its group and add the user to the group, that user will not have to use sudo. This took me some time to find a solution, and it is beautifully simple (of course). I had a problem thinking how would I enable students to write to a web directory (var/www) without giving them all SUDO access (and allowing them to write into another students directory). I'll be using linode for my web applications class next year (about 15 students). I use (and love) linode for my web hosting, email, database, and other linux needs.
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