Title: Cloud Computing with WordPress?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Cloud Computing with WordPress?

 *  [Lane Lester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llester/)
 * (@llester)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/)
 * The announcement of Google’s coming cloud service got me to thinking:
 * I have a reseller shared server account with Hosting Zoom with lots of space 
   and bandwidth. Could I set up my own “cloud server” there which would make it
   a lot easier to read/write files than is FTP?
 * WordPress has a plugin for everything else; does it have one for this?
 * If not, do you know a free server-side script package that would work?
 * What about the client side? I run Linux and Windows; would there be a way to 
   have my cloud in the file menus of LibreOffice and such?
 * Lane

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692493)
 * In most cases, just install WordPress like you would normally on your web host.
   Cloud or not.
 *  Thread Starter [Lane Lester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llester/)
 * (@llester)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692494)
 * I see I failed to communicate. I was thinking of trying to set up a cloud system
   for easy reading and saving of files from desktop programs. The standard upload/
   download in WP wouldn’t do it.
 * Lane
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/southstationmedia/)
 * (@southstationmedia)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692507)
 * I doubt the hosting company would allow any type of access on their shared servers
   for a client to set up a cloud type environment. I’m a little unclear of why 
   you would need this though for FTP. Why does the standard WP upload/download 
   not work?
 *  Thread Starter [Lane Lester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llester/)
 * (@llester)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692508)
 * You may be right about the hosting company.
 * I don’t “need” to do this. It’s just a learning exercise to see if it can be 
   done without having use FTP.
 * Actually, I have a pretty nice dropbox script that’s easy to upload and download
   stuff. But I wanted to see if I could get the same type of functionality thatone
   gets with the big cloud guys.
 * Lane
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692550)
 * The host would be the big tripping point here
 * Buried within the TOS of many hosts is a statement that your hosting cannot be
   used for online storage. It can only be used for your website files, etc.
 * Hosts vary of course
 *  Thread Starter [Lane Lester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llester/)
 * (@llester)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692551)
 * Interesting point, Rev. I’ve long used my account for casual storage of stuff:
   screenshots, personal images, etc.
 * OTOH, it’s pretty much a low volume item, so maybe the red flag would go up only
   if I started storing many megs.
 * Lane
 *  [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * (@rvoodoo)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692587)
 * Yeah, I store a few things there too. I’m pretty sure they aren’t too concerned
   with low volume stuff, as you say.
 * Screenshots, images, etc. are pretty standard faire for a website to begin with.
   Hard to know if its for your site or not without auditing everything.
 * I didn’t know about these types of restrictions until I dug a little deeper, 
   I was looking for a place to back up about 20000 photos. That one might have 
   garnered some attention.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
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 * Last reply from: [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cloud-computing-with-wordpress/#post-2692587)
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