UPDATE 2017: I had a feeling this would happen one day and it did. I’ve finally had enough and starting looking for another image hosting service for my blog. This isn’t a problem if the downtime was kept to a minimum but the other day, my album was offline for five hours! And like I said earlier, this seems to be a common theme with Skydrive, or least to my account. My photos will just seem to disappear from the blog page until the servers are bought back online. If I can’t get access to it, then neither can anyone else and that means my readers. Anyways, in my case, if the Skydrive service is down or if it’s performing maintenance on a server where my photo album is sitting on, I won’t have access to it. If your data is hosted online, then it must be available 100% of the time! Obviously, no company can ever guarantee 100% up time but they usually offer customers a pretty close percentage number.

Whenever you choose a online service to host your data, no matter what type of data it may be, one of the most critical issue is availability.

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