my1Password - Why is it gone?
Hello,
I started using 1Password much after the my1Password service was already retired. I don't know much about it, but was just wondering what lead to the decision to retire it.
I see that there was a post about the issue at http://support.agilewebsolutions.com/showthread.php?12325-The-Future-of-the-my1Password-Web-Service but it seems to no longer be available to view.
Thanks.
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Hey Henry from what I remember,
- Someone was always needing to be able to restart the server should it fail,
- General server duties, insuring all data with backups etc. time to maintain proper security and intrusion prevention, logging etc
- Insuring the data was always available,
- Server load from all the new testers, had to have to ability to scale up
- Lack of automatic syncing
In short it was way easier to build the service into an already setup syncing mechanism, hence the introduction of Dropbox and MobileMe
- Servers always up / redundant servers
- Support staff always available.
- Security maintained by the service.
- Server are scaled to support numerous users
- Automatic syncing
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Did the service ever come out of beta?
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I think T. Hightower's explanation is a very good one. The short answer is: running a sync service well is a lot of hard work. I don't know that it ever made it past the beta stage, but it was a number of years before I started working for AgileBits.
1PasswordAnywhere works via Dropbox (on the web) or any local backup (such as a USB flash drive), so we think it is a much more flexible solution. :)
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Yeah, I like 1PasswordAnywhere and agree that it's better. =)
I was just curious, that's all.
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As far as I know no it never made it past the alpha/beta stage.
I was still waiting for my invite when it was closed. or maybe I had just gotten it I cant remember.
I seem to remember using the service or trying to set it up, as I had a password etc.
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