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Originally Posted by Cyber Fucker
What do you mean by that? Is it different than with managed dedicated? Who else has my info except the hosting provider technicians? And by the info do you mean my personal information or file data on the storage? 
Security is my main concern, well, I have always been a bit paranoid about my data safety.  |
I mean people who work for the company where you are hosting. It is a bigger deal to some then others as I mentioned. If a hosting technician gets fired and goes haywire. They might harm your data, not because of you, just because they want to harm the company, or people like that creep over at google who got fired because some kid he met at a tech convention wouldnt tell him about his girilfriend. So he went into the kids email account and read all his email and listened to his google voice notes. Found out who his girlfriend was and started harrassing her.
Here is an article about it
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opini...acy-Furor-5038
Most of the time things like this are a long shot. But you asked the pros and cons. And typically when i talk to people about cloud solutions. This is the #1 reason why they do not go with it. I work with corporate customers though who have either legal documents or financial information.
You have to remember. A Cloud service like rackspace or amazon has tons of employees with access to your data. Most corporate customers host there servers in there own office, with a 10Mbit line or 100Mbit so on so forth. This is highly available in NY. They are typically hosting accounting programs, databases. so on so forth. They do not use outside hosts. In the case of hosting websites only. This is not very cost effective.
No, Not personal data, the file data.