Well, you just answered the question, "only storage." If you are going to rely on one one storage source, then online tools such as Google Docs are probably more secure (especially in the sense of having uncorrupted data) than your local non-profit bargain-basement non-RAID, not-backed-up file server.
But, of course, that is still fundamentally insecure and a horrible idea. All backup and disaster recovery plans have to include more than that--preferably at least on+offsite storage using more than one medium, with a replicated copy in another geographic area entirely for disaster recovery....). Whether or not having your primary storage online or offline depends on lots of factors, but given the overall quality of Google data services vs. what most of us can afford locally, that isn't necessarily a bad place to start. (If people here could stand working with Google Docs, vs. say, our relatively old MS Office, we'd probably do it. But so far, we have yet to have a project started using Zoho, Google, or anything else stay there--those apps are still not fitting the hands of our particular users.) ari On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Kathy Amoroso <kamoroso at mainehistory.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been reading about so many people moving things to Google Docs or > Flickr. Aren't you afraid that they could just fold someday? I am nervous > to rely on third-party solutions since there is no guarantee. We tell > contributors to the Maine Memory Network NOT to use our servers as their > only storage system since the future is not guaranteed. > > Kathy > > ************************ > Kathy Bolduc Amoroso > Director of Digital Projects > kamoroso at mainehistory.org or kathy at mainememory.net > Maine Historical Society, 489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101 > (207)774-1822 x227 | www.mainehistory.org | www.mainememory.net > > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ >
