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ALL cloud applications should offer downloadable installs.

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JavaJones:
What I'd like to be able to do with Ymail is *forward* (permanently) for free. Doubt there's a workaround for that, I've looked!

Anyway, FOIS should be fast enough, but there are still the other issues of redundancy, maintaining your own servers, etc.

The Standing Cloud service Wraith links to solves part of the problem, but you still need to use external hosting, Amazon EC2 I think. You could just as easily look at VPS.net nodes with a preconfigured app stack (they offer a number of options), or Bitnami Stacks (they have them available for Linux, installable in theory on any VPS). But unless you're running several apps for web access, the cost of all this probably isn't going to bring you out ahead (depending on the available "cloud" options and their pricing). A VPS is $20/mo or so minimum, and you'd need at least that amount of resources to run the more demanding apps well. More than that if you want a friendly control panel like CPanel.

- Oshyan

superboyac:
What I'd like to be able to do with Ymail is *forward* (permanently) for free. Doubt there's a workaround for that, I've looked!
-JavaJones (July 13, 2010, 03:53 PM)
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Oh, it's possible.  Find my post...

JavaJones:
Found it. For anyone else looking, it leads to here:
http://forums.ypopsemail.com/ypops-is-no-longer-needed-t3956.html
I think I've tried this before, and some people in the thread talk about it not working. But worth a shot. Thanks!

- Oshyan

cmpm:
another alternative

http://www.poppeeper.com/

can connect and download the yahoomail free account messages
then use the forwarding in poppeeper

Anyway, isn't cloud computing working with files on your computer already?
If not I'd certainly keep copies of everything committed to the cloud.

But then the collaboration issue.........
If the cloud could be mounted and real time synced to your pc,
that might work.

http://www.gladinet.com/

That's about all I could find, but not free it seems.

Windows live is doing some stuff I don't understand yet.

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/12/27/microsoft-windows-live-offline-installation/

zridling:
On a semi-related note (for developers), IBM shows devs how to move your Linux application to the Amazon cloud, Part 1: Initial migration:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-migrate2cloud-1/index.html?ca=drs-

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is a great concept: You use computing resources, you pay for them. You want more computing power, you pay more. The downside of this model is that you're working with computers that you're never going to see, nor do you really know much about them. Once you get over that, however, there's a lot to be gained by using IaaS.

Because the IaaS model is so different from the traditional model of buying servers, the way you manage your virtual computers changes. It also means that the way you run your application in the cloud changes. Things you once took for granted, such as negligible latency between servers, are no longer a given.

This series of articles follows the migration of a Web application from a single physical server to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Along the way, you learn how to adapt your application to the cloud environment and how to take advantage of the features that the cloud has to offer. To start, you see a straight migration from one physical server to a cloud server.

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