Other Cloud Services
Cloud Storage, Cloud Syncing, Cloud Backups, and Cloud Apps (broadly defined) constitute the major categories of cloud services most consumers will care about. But just to broaden your horizons a bit, I want to mention a few other wispy fringes of the Cloud that even you, as an ordinary non-geeky individual, might find interesting.
Virtual Private Servers
Way back when, I signed up with a Web hosting service, and my personal Web site sat on a server with dozens of others. At a certain point, I decided I wanted more control, so I moved my site onto a Mac in my home office. But that didn’t have enough bandwidth or a reliable Internet connection, so I bought an Xserve (remember those?) and rented space, power, and bandwidth ...
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