Do photo stream pictures count against the iCloud storage limit?

Aloha all,
My iPad is my only Apple device, so my concern is not having multiple devices synced.  I am more interested in having a backup of the pictures and video I take with my iPad.
Mahalo for your time and help  

Photo Stream is intended more for sharing your photos and syncing them between devices. You should look at DropBox or other dedicated photo sites if you are looking for more of an online backup. But the best backup is to get your photos synced to a computer and back them up to a backup USB drive as well. I will go another step and burn CD/DVDs of my photos as well.
I like to use DropBox as an online back up when traveling till I can get home and get a copy of my photos into my photo library and it's more permanent backups.

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    Paste the path in the run box and hit enter
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    Restart iCloud control panel and try logging on again. MobileMeAccounts.plist is regenerated the next time you sign out from control panel.
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    Goto 'start -> run' (or click 'windows+r' hotkey)
    Paste the path in the run box and hit enter
    From the folder that is opened, rename 'MobileMeAccounts.plist' out of the way (or you can delete it if want..)
    Restart iCloud control panel and try logging on again. MobileMeAccounts.plist is regenerated the next time you sign out from control panel.
    Apparently MobileMeAccounts.plist is getting screwed up in a couple different ways and prevents this from working correctly.  After you log on control panel again, photostream will not be greyed out.  You will have to reselect your custom path you want to store your pictures unless you just wanted to stick with the default path control panel is set to.
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