Comments on: Open Thread: How Much Do You Trust Your Web Apps? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Satseakesit http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80106 Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:10:57 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80106 Hello People,

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]]> By: oxibiownvob http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80105 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:05:39 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80105 Hello Every body,

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]]> By: WWD’s 2009 in Review, Part 1 http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80104 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:01:55 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80104 [...] (including Tasks, a simple to-do lists manager) a major Gmail outage prompted me to question how much faith we put into our web apps. While back on the desktop, a critical security vulnerability discovered in Acrobat reinforced the [...]

]]> By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive CreativePro Office: All-in-One Suite for Freelance Web Workers « http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80103 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:02:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80103 [...] is as close as I’ve come to a perfect all-in-one solution. I’m still too nervous to trust everything to the web, but with the easy ability to print paper and PDF backups, it might just become my primary project [...]

]]> By: Walter Wimberly http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80102 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:06:45 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80102 To use the cloud, you have to give up some control. Last week my power supply died in my main computer – however I was able to get back up in a little bit with backups (hardware and software). When the cloud goes down, I don’t have a backup option – that is the disadvantage.

I don’t think we can, at this point, rely on the cloud for critical applications – especially if we are savvy enough to know how to watch our own back.

For most people however, if their computer had died, it would have worse than gmail being down for a few hours – as they would have lost all of their work and it might not have ever come back.

]]> By: Dmitri Eroshenko, Relenta http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80101 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:41:39 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80101 “people that ran around like chickens with their heads cut off when GMail was down for a few hours and now have sworn off not only clouds but sunshine, rain, rivers, and the dreaded waterfall computing.”

@Michael you have you way with words! :)

I think it boils down to the balance between how much effort you want to put into your disaster recovery routine, and how protected you want to feel.

Some of our users manually export their accounts daily. Some pull their data via API. We are working on automating the remote back up functionality to the storage device of customer’s choice. Will include sunshine, rain and waterfall.

]]> By: Anelly http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80100 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:04:34 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80100 Unfortunately i don’t have a backup plan for all the risk cases that might appear in regards to application used. For example a day ago MS Word crashed before i was able to save the document but my luck, because i enabled the auto save functionality. So when it’s possible protect your “back”. On the other hand i think that we have become too dependent on specific services like Google (which had to break down once when it labeled the entire Web as malware and yesterday when Gmail was down.

]]> By: Michael Pruitt http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80099 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:44:09 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80099 @Simon My rant wasn’t aimed at you, it was more aimed at the people that ran around like chickens with their heads cut off when GMail was down for a few hours and now have sworn off not only clouds but sunshine, rain, rivers, and the dreaded waterfall computing. I’m sure they’ll be switching over to grid soon enough though (mother nature knows not of grid computing!).

]]> By: Simon Mackie http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80098 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:42:03 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80098 @Michael My point in asking the question was not to put forward an agenda (either for or against web apps and cloud computing), but rather to get people to consider whether they need to have a backup plan, consider what might happen if their service goes down. It’s also important to consider these things if you host all your services yourself :)

@Alex I’m surprised that you wouldn’t consider Gmail an app. After all a desktop email client like Outlook is an application.

]]> By: Michael Pruitt http://gigaom.com/collaboration/open-thread-how-much-do-you-trust-your-web-apps/#comment-80097 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:31:11 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=8028#comment-80097 ^^ It’s in the GMail filter section if they don’t want to play nice :)

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