This is not the first time Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc... have had major outages. This is the price you pay for not paying a financial price for those services. No matter how large, big, great features it has, there will be problems. Companies expanding into the cloud, which really is just a fancy term for virtualized environments, allows everyone to get all of the services for little or no cost. But there is a trade off. That trade off is control.
Most of you don't think about it, the 100,000 in Gmail didn't think about it before. I bet they do now. They are now realizing the dirty secret of Internet computing... you still need to be responsible for your data and actions because you cannot fully trust any service to do it for you. Even the great unstoppable Google lost your data. It happens. It's data. Mistakes are made and all of that can be lost at the speed of light.
So what can you do?
User's should be doing the same thing that they do with their PC data. Back it up. If you have all your data on a single home hard drive and that hard drive crashes and cannot be restored, a person can live with that. But when you put an assumed trust into a company to do that for you and they lose it you get angry. Why? It's your data, if you don't take charge and properly educate yourself around how to take care of it, then you can't blame the service provider.
There are options and ways to get your data stored locally. Hard drive space is cheap, fire safes are cheap. Backup to those devices and store them in a physical location. Burn DVDs. Simply accept the fact that there is no guarantee when it comes to your data. Your life should be your control. Cloud servers should a convenient extension of that.
Services will come and go, your data, your messages, your photos are once and forever.
End of Line.
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