News!! Did You Lot Know That Your Weblog Is Inwards The Cloud?

This article explains the human relationship betwixt your weblog together with "the cloud", together with other ways that y'all powerfulness last using the cloud without fifty-fifty realising it.

H5N1 few days ago, I received an electronic mail from Sam who plant for "SingleHop, a companionship that specializes inwards cloud computing."

He explained that

"Due to recent events similar Heartbleed, the Target breach together with the leaking of celebrity photos to the public, the earth is abuzz near "the cloud." However, y'all may last wondering what just it is together with what it does. We are hoping y'all would last interested inwards sharing a post amongst your readers near cloud computing inwards everyday life.

In a nutshell, the cloud is a way to shop information remotely, rather than on your dwelling household computer. This gives y'all slow access to your photos, documents, together with other files from anywhere at whatsoever time. We are hoping that yesteryear spreading awareness near how the cloud works, nosotros tin assist others brand smarter decisions near what they post/share online.

We direct maintain set together a graphic discussing some of the most mutual ways y'all exercise the cloud. We would honey to part this amongst y'all thence that y'all tin exercise the information to assist practise a post near how y'all exercise cloud computing inwards your day-to-day life.

Being the suspicious sort, I wondered if this was come upwardly sort of spam / scam. But it didn't experience totally spammy: at that topographic point was no link to SingleHop inwards the email, his message text didn't come upwardly up inwards whatsoever of the hoax or urban-legend sites, together with the companionship looks legitimate - though I cannot come across how they volition practise goodness from beingness linked to from my blog.

I wrote dorsum to Sam, together with for certain plenty he sent me a graphic. It looks sensible-enough, doesn't appear to direct maintain whatsoever viruses inwards it, together with a Google epitome search isn't showing it anywhere else on the web. So far, thence good.

I had asked "what's the catch" together with he replied "No catch, we're simply trying to spark tidings together with practise awareness near how people exercise the cloud. We’d honey for y'all to verbalize near how y'all exercise the cloud, whether it’s to last productive at work, part special moments amongst friends or relax at home."

So hither goes - a weblog post near blogs, bloggers, Blogger and the cloud, amongst an illustration compliments of SingleHop (who didn't inquire for the backlink).

Your weblog is already inwards "the cloud"

For all the hype, "the cloud" is cipher new - at to the lowest degree non for individuals.

 As Sam said the cloud is simply "a way to shop information remotely, rather than on your dwelling household computer". 

I've been doing this on inwards Blogger since 2006 together with doing it seriously (ie writing for to a greater extent than than simply myself) since 2009. I've been using internet-email since 1987 - eventide though most of the earth didn't start until 10 years later.   More latterly I switched to using electronic mail accounts that allow me croak along all my electronic mail on-line together with access it via IMAP rather than downloading it to my PC using POP3.

Obviously - if y'all direct maintain a weblog made amongst Blogger, together with then it is already inwards "the cloud".

And this is truthful whether your direct maintain a world blog, or a private weblog amongst restricted readers:  even those choose people volition last seeing the version of your weblog that it on the internet.

The same if y'all are using Picasa-web-albums or whatsoever other picture-hosting service to croak along photos that y'all exhibit inwards your blog.   Or Youtube to shop your videos, Google-Contacts to deal your address book, Google Drive to shop the PDF files that y'all distribute through it, or a Facebook page, Twitter delineate of piece of job concern human relationship or Pinterest boards to promote your blog.

These are all "in the cloud" because people who come across them on your weblog come across the version that y'all uploaded to the internet, non the i on your dwelling household computer. This agency that the pictures, videos etc tin withal last seen, fifty-fifty when your figurer is turned off.

There are also novel ways of interacting amongst your blog, which "the cloud" is making possible, eg I'm currently experimenting amongst an app called Pixlr, equally a way to deal the size of photos loaded to my "quirky pictures from my city" photoblog straight from my phone.   But the basic sentiment - that your weblog is "in the cloud" hasn't changed since good earlier the cloud became hip.

Are at that topographic point other ways that y'all can, should together with practise exercise "the cloud"?

Probably. Some of these volition simply last near the way your weblog develops - for instance if y'all start makign vlogs (video-blog-posts), y'all tin shop them on YouTube.

Others could last to a greater extent than suable. Looking through Sam's motion-picture exhibit (below), i number that stands out for me is backup: equally good equally using Google Takeout to brand periodic copies of the contents of all my blogs, I should likely start to salve these somwhere extra-safe simply inwards instance anything bad happens.

And for some types of blog, using streaming-media powerfulness last important.  SingleHop says that this is for entertainment.  But I tin easily come across it beingness useful for choral singers who are learning novel works, teachers who desire to part their materials, together with fifty-fifty sports players who desire to prepare to specific regimes that are distributed yesteryear "video", together with available to play when needed - equally good equally for bloggers who write near these topics.

More information

Sam's graphic is shown below: he didn't nation whether it it was ok to include inwards my post or not, thence I sentiment I'd adventure it together with part it amongst y'all - I'm for certain he'll last inwards impact if he wants me to accept it down!

Most probably, your weblog itself volition gibe into his social media category: blogs are actually simply ultra-long Twitter posts, delivered within a tool that gives lots of creative liberty near how textile is displayed.

But inwards some cases, y'all may gibe into the collaboration category, if y'all are writing a squad weblog together with direct maintain set upwardly other team-members to write inwards it. B ut what practise y'all shout out upwardly - does it belong somewhere else?

What y'all tin together with cannot know

For most bloggers, their exercise of "the cloud" volition last pretty invisible: they come across themselves equally using Blogger or Wordpress or whatever, rather than using "the cloud"

If y'all hold off harder at Sam's companionship website, y'all volition come across that they are offering virtual private cloud services. In very, rattling stone oil terms, this agency they ain a rattling large laid of computers, together with rent out infinite on them - gear upwardly thence that solely people from the organisation which has leased the infinite tin come across the infinite and exercise the computer-power behind it.  This is dissimilar to world cloud services, where the processing ability is shared amongst other people using the same computer.

For almost all cloud systems that y'all volition exercise equally a blogger, y'all aren't going to last for certain whether they are based on public-cloud or private-cloud services - but for all practical purposes, y'all don't demand to know.

But is it safe?

This is the biggest inquiry for most when people someone starts talking near "the cloud" - particularly if they've heard near passwords beingness hacked etc

Certainly my commencement reaction was that the companies I run within my 24-hour interval chore would never exercise the cloud, because they would direct maintain to set besides much sensitive information onto computers exterior their control. And for some, this is true.

But what I eventually realised is that to a greater extent than oft than non the large "cloud services companies" furnish amend figurer security than y'all practise inwards your household - together with far amend than the unmarried IT-staff mortal inwards a pocket-sized companionship tin manage.  So overall, I shout out upwardly it's right away prophylactic to nation that "the cloud is equally secure equally whatsoever other computing tool y'all use", together with that the biggest adventure to the security of your information comes from choosing bad passwords, or having viruses / malware laid on your computer.

What practise y'all think?

Are y'all happy that your weblog is inwards "the cloud" - would y'all prefer a blogging solution that allow y'all croak along your private blogs, at least, inwards a non-cloud place?

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