Is it safe for you to use a cloud service to backup your photographs?

As we all rely more and more on backing up via the convenience of cloud services, we have to ask ourselves, “is it safe for us to use a cloud service” more than ever. In this article we look at the pros, cons and why we should or should not use cloud services. A cloud service could be an essential part of your backup solutions, which we talked about in a previous article, so you need to decide wisely.

What are cloud services?

I know a lot of people don’t understand what a cloud service is as it’s so accessible and not much thought goes into it. Basically you’re loading your data into rooms full of hard drives or equivalent storage, where the data will be stored on a number of huge devices, accessible through the internet. If one set of devices goes down for any reason, they usually…