>>>>To All,
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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.
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>>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.
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>The watershed issue is the # of users changing a file/document. Last century we sent documents via email, resulting in much churn due to editing not the latest edition. Then we tried ASCII files and SourceSafe, but this was not up to standard as document if intended to be sent out.
>Next thing was a dedicated company PC share, where all documents were housed - workable, either acessing the documents via TCP/IP or editing via remote/MSTSC.
>Nextcloud in the most used things for us similar to shared directories - one company with a single co-conspirator, another with 6. If all you need is safe storage for single user files, Dropbox, OneDrive and others are good enough if you trust those companies.
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>Nextcloud has more things for collaborative work, but we use that rather sparingly. Main benefit no need to be on premise if trouble surfaces - one of the guys I work with received 3 stens yesterday - he will be in hospital for a week, even if already pestering for cell phone and laptop.
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>For Word docs versioning is not important in our use range, in Excel we sometimes create versioned/dated files. Moving to Git with some tool for creating pure ASCII comparable files might be smarter, but the pressure is not here at the moment.

I am considering OneDrive to store backups of my files. I do not have a network locally. The cloud provides me with a place to backup certain documents I perfer not have only on my personal computer. I have had moments when my personal computer just dies. If I did not maintain a off-site (FTP) version of those documents then they would have been lost. The age of the floppy disk backup is gone. Cloud storage is latest craze. I believe there will come a time that any local storage will become unheard of.

As for placing my web sites Download area on Github. It is only so others can download some of the programming tools have created and I wish to openly share.