[pgeorgi]

Cloud services outliving my (not so fancy) NAS. So, where's my Webshots account? (since we're talking photos, let's take a photos example. It shouldn't be hard to find an example of a dead web service for any other kind of data, either)

_My_ datastore still exists and proudly provides those files from my redundantly stored, checksummed, auto-repairing local filesystem. No, I don't have an off-site backup. But neither had Webshots once they decided to shut down.

[Dylan16807]

At least you generally get a warning for a cloud service going down. Then it's around as much hassle as a single component of the NAS failing.

I'm not sure what's more likely, a trustworthy-looking service disappearing out of the blue, or a RAIDed NAS being damaged in a way that data is lost.

[thrownaway2424]

Since I've never heard of "Webshots" that seems like a bit of cherry picking. Flickr and Smugmug have both been hosting photos continuously for over a decade.

[pgeorgi]

As per Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webshots):

"By 2004, Webshots was grossing $15M/year, had more than 200,000 paid subscribers, and was the #1 photo sharing site and top 50 media property per ComScore. In the same year, Alexa ranked Webshots the second largest English language privately held Web media property (behind weather.com)."

[scholia]

Other photo-storage sites that are no longer around include Streamload, Kodak Gallery, Nirvanix, Snapjoy and Everpix.

I won't count Twitpics as it was a posting service, not a storage service, but I expect there are a few closures I've missed....

[monort]

What auto-repairing filesystem do you use?

[pgeorgi]

ZFS