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Considering dropping my web site
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18/03/2019 13:05:13
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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>>Recently I have considered dropping my GLRsoftware.com web site. I have had it for many years, but have done little to maintain it in the recent years. It was a cool thing when I first developed it, but it old (classic ASP), and I rarely do anything to update it. The site is hosted by GoDaddy. Which I like. They also host my Email and FTP. But currently I have offering my GMail email address to friends and clients. GLRsoftware inbox (and spam box) are becoming saturated with email messages I don't even wish to read, yet alone respond. Also with Cloud storage available (MS OneDrive, GoogleDrive, and DropBox), I don't even have to bother with having a FTP client application. Plus I could move many of the download application and tools I offer to GitHub. All of these cover about 90% of the reason I have the web site in the first place. I started it more as a sandbox to learn web development, but became more of a storage area. Besides, having the GLRsoftware.com as part of my email address have giving people that I have an active company, which I don't anymore.
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>>Opinions? Suggestions?
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>I follow your reasoning. Having own website - unless often updated - makes sense for me for OWN cloud storage. I/we use Nextcloud for sharing files/documents - no wish to depend on Dropbox, Amazon or Google servers/infrastructure, even if their response time usualy is better than our setup.

I was using Dropbox, but something changed, and files were not being updated as soon (with in minutes) of being changed. Looked into Google Drive, but had a bad tendency of hogging the WiFi when looking for changes. Microsoft's OneDrive appears to be kind to my WiFi, and have not experienced any lag in updating. This might be the fact that it is so closely integrated into Windows. Because I don't have many photos or music, the free version suits me fine. The good thing I liked about Dropbox was that it retained history of the files that changed. I believe up to a month on the free version.
Greg Reichert
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