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A bit of a cautionary tale for those of us using the cloud
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Posted by xtabber
Sep 22, 2016 at 01:32 PM
More cautionary news for those who choose to live in the cloud: Wunderlist’s servers have been down for over 24 hours now. Local apps work fine, but you can’t synch between devices.
Microsoft, which bought Wunderlist a little over a year ago, has confirmed the outage and apparently has no idea when (if?) they will be able to get their act together again.
Posted by dan7000
Sep 23, 2016 at 04:19 PM
xtabber wrote:
More cautionary news for those who choose to live in the cloud:
>Wunderlist’s servers have been down for over 24 hours now. Local
>apps work fine, but you can’t synch between devices.
>
>Microsoft, which bought Wunderlist a little over a year ago, has
>confirmed the outage and apparently has no idea when (if?) they will be
>able to get their act together again.
>
Yikes. 24 hours would be enough for me to abandon the service for sure. Coincidentally (?) Evernote’s servers were down for about 30 minutes (that I noticed) on Wednesday, and then I got some sync errors for the remainder of the day which finally resolved. Shows how fragile your infrastructure is if you rely on these services—but it’s hard to avoid relying on the cloud in some way.
Posted by Larry Kollar
Sep 29, 2016 at 01:47 PM
One advantage of being an older guy: I remember when the network was often a not-work. Two generations before me, many people didn’t trust banks (and with good reason—look at what they’re still doing today). My generation, instead of stuffing their money under a mattress, uses the cloud primarily for backups.
Apropos to the original point of this thread: I have a Blogger blog, and I have a monthly reminder to back it up. Google has made some improvements here; blog backup used to not save comments, but it does now. Fortunately, I’ve never had to use it.