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WD My Cloud for windows As Remote Server
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Mike Lewis
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WD My Cloud is basically a storage device. Think of it is a large disk drive that you can attach to your computer or network, but with some extra software to allow its advertising to include the buzzword "cloud".
But it has got nothing to do with Visual Foxpro. Are you sure you have posted your question in the correct forum?
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But it has got nothing to do with Visual Foxpro. Are you sure you have posted your question in the correct forum?
Mike
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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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Olaf Doschke
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I have several WD cloud drives and actually lost access to one, as the base software you have to use to make access use stopped working. It wasn't too important for me to get back in, but naturally since then I don't like their concept so much.
Cloud here stands for private cloud, which in first order just makes it a "cloud" like central server mainly for media files (music, videos) for a LAN. There are some sharing options, especially in WD World Book, might also be valid for that cloud editions, you may then also watch movies when traveling, but I usually do other things than that, mainly enjoying places unmatched to me at home.
You have the same problem as with any real server or client you'd use as a web server or even a more wholesome combination web/FPT/mail, etc. Your upload bandwidth is typically lower. If you have a symmetric line, that's fine. On top of that, it is much easier to set up computers as web server than as a remote database file server it would need to be in case of serving DBFs. The bad latency times make it a more likely candidate for DBF file corruptions, even if you manage to set it up as a WAN (with the help of an advanced router).
Some others have done the one or other thing might chime in here, but in regard to databases in the web, I'm rather going for the real thing. You can get a free year GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon keeps its AWS platform free for businesses as long as you're under a certain threshold of costs/income, so that can even be permanently cheap for low volumes.
I was in a Google Cloud Platform onboard presentation for beginners giving a wide overview of the services. It had too many insights about topics for network admins, but they offer so much more than just usual hosting. In regard to database availability, you can have almost instant replication of any data worldwide, some regulations prevent that with all personal data, but you can decide on your main business data otherwise anyway. It's impressive, in that they have their own private network, even intercontinental ocean cables only for GCP, nothing that is shared with the rest of the internet.
I regularly talk about my concerns about the privacy of business data typically kept on premise, but there is a risks/chances balance going in direction of clouds, in that they notice and can react to global things going on in terms of hacking and first day exploits, that any on-premise and in-house data center is more vulnerable about. It's also believable they can treat your whole VMs as a black box they run on their own hardware and still have no insight. They run it as a black box via their own hardware architecture including cryptographic chips and trust platforms.
Bye, Olaf.
Cloud here stands for private cloud, which in first order just makes it a "cloud" like central server mainly for media files (music, videos) for a LAN. There are some sharing options, especially in WD World Book, might also be valid for that cloud editions, you may then also watch movies when traveling, but I usually do other things than that, mainly enjoying places unmatched to me at home.
You have the same problem as with any real server or client you'd use as a web server or even a more wholesome combination web/FPT/mail, etc. Your upload bandwidth is typically lower. If you have a symmetric line, that's fine. On top of that, it is much easier to set up computers as web server than as a remote database file server it would need to be in case of serving DBFs. The bad latency times make it a more likely candidate for DBF file corruptions, even if you manage to set it up as a WAN (with the help of an advanced router).
Some others have done the one or other thing might chime in here, but in regard to databases in the web, I'm rather going for the real thing. You can get a free year GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon keeps its AWS platform free for businesses as long as you're under a certain threshold of costs/income, so that can even be permanently cheap for low volumes.
I was in a Google Cloud Platform onboard presentation for beginners giving a wide overview of the services. It had too many insights about topics for network admins, but they offer so much more than just usual hosting. In regard to database availability, you can have almost instant replication of any data worldwide, some regulations prevent that with all personal data, but you can decide on your main business data otherwise anyway. It's impressive, in that they have their own private network, even intercontinental ocean cables only for GCP, nothing that is shared with the rest of the internet.
I regularly talk about my concerns about the privacy of business data typically kept on premise, but there is a risks/chances balance going in direction of clouds, in that they notice and can react to global things going on in terms of hacking and first day exploits, that any on-premise and in-house data center is more vulnerable about. It's also believable they can treat your whole VMs as a black box they run on their own hardware and still have no insight. They run it as a black box via their own hardware architecture including cryptographic chips and trust platforms.
Bye, Olaf.
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