What’s probably one of the biggest things talked about on the internet today would have to be cloud computing. Cloud computing is simply having all of your fies stored on the internet, or the cloud. With this type of computing, it allows you to access all of your files from every computer in the world that is connected to the internet.
One of these popular cloud computing services would have to be Google Docs. With Google Docs, it really allows to replicate all of those features you may get from an Office suite right in your internet browser.
With Google Docs, you’re able to create a presentations, type up your essay, or even add in some spreadsheets. But the things is, you do have limited space on the cloud.
Google is planning on expanding their space on the cloud to allow you to have a file up to 250MB in size and a minimum 1GB of space stored on every account. It’ s basically a flash drive stored on the internet! With this expansion, I can see more people using Google’s services to archive and maybe even type all of their important documents on.
But if you ever need any more space, you can pay a $.25 per gigabyte each year. And just to tell you, that’ s very cheap for everything you are getting.
Have you really ever used Google Docs? I’ll be perfectly honest, I do not use Google Docs because I am still the type of person who still likes to keep all of my files local on my computer. But I can see more people switching over to Google Docs now that they are offering more space to its users. This should be applied in the next few weeks; there is no exact date yet on when this change will take effect.
Cloud computing is great, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the heck they're thinking when they give us 256kbps (theoretical) upload speeds. It will take over 9 hours to upload the 1GB limit of files, provided that you really WILL be getting a constant 256kbps without throttling (which is next to impossible on shared connections).Seriously, other countries have 10mbps down / 5mbps up for around $20 per month.
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LikeYeah, 256KB/S is pretty slow. Hopefully, Google will fix that cap along with that limitation.For some countries, it is pretty cheap. But here in Ohio, I'm getting a alright service. It sometimes is very slow at certain times. And no, it's not my network that's the cause of it. :)
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LikeCloud computing is great, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the heck they're thinking when they give us 256kbps (theoretical) upload speeds. It will take over 9 hours to upload the 1GB limit of files, provided that you really WILL be getting a constant 256kbps without throttling (which is next to impossible on shared connections).
Seriously, other countries have 10mbps down / 5mbps up for around $20 per month.
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LikeYeah, 256KB/S is pretty slow. Hopefully, Google will fix that cap along with that limitation.
For some countries, it is pretty cheap. But here in Ohio, I'm getting a alright service. It sometimes is very slow at certain times. And no, it's not my network that's the cause of it. :)
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