Comments on: S3, Online Storage & BingoDisk

By: wheyconf

wheyconf — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:35:51 +0000

Don’t risk losing your valuable business data just to save a few bucks on one of these cut-rate, residential backup plans. Go with an experienced, reliable online backup solution like http://www.RemoteDataBackups.com. Responsive, free 24/7 phone support, unlimited redundant bandwidth, reliable restores.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:52:57 +0000

I have to echo the comments about Carbonite’s poor support. I had a problem with stalled/failed backups and their “support” consisted of confirming that my computer hadn’t completed a backup in a week. It just so happened that my subscription was expiring this week; the irony is that I wouldn’t have looked for another service and would have forked over another $50 if this support issue hadn’t come up. As it is, I’ve switched to JungleDisk, which will turn out to be a less expensive option for me (I’m backing up <10Gb). Poor support plus the economics of S3 is going to kill these guys.

By: deniese

deniese — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:31:20 +0000

For those who want to try out Mozy’s free plan (2GB): When you use a promo code you get an additional 250 MB. Disclaimer: Me as well when you use the code (c:

link: https://mozy.com/?code=5EEERM

or code: 5EEERM

Thanks,

Deniese

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Of Parascale & Other Cloud Computing News - GigaOM — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:13:46 +0000

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By: LSF

LSF — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:52:51 +0000

BingoDisk has been down since yesterday and the latest report says it will be back in 24 hours at soonest. I am not impressed.

By: SwitchingToMozy

SwitchingToMozy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:42:11 +0000

Sorry about what happened to you, PHOTOGRAPHER. You didn’t say which service you tried, which would have been helpful. I’ve used Carbonite for the past 18 months have 37Gb stored with them and never lost a thing (though I haven’t needed to restore much). The major services are very competent and I wonder if you chose a smaller player that went belly-up?

For me, it’s time to renew and I’ve decided to switch to Mozy so I can access my home files from work occasionally. But Carbonite has been rock-solid for me. I like that it’s “set and forget”, unless I want to tell it to ignore certain folders that I don’t need backed up.

I’m not looking forward to switching and waiting for all those files to upload to Mozy though!

By: photographer

photographer — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:16:45 +0000

2 years ago I made a mistake of backing up some of my photographs to one of those backup storages. Next thing I know,all date was lost. I was left with nothing! Now I am too careful. Maybe it’s good for some music and stuff,but definitely not anything else

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:21:15 +0000

Peter, I used to use box.net, but then I found mydatabus.com…it’s sooo much better. 5 GB of free storage, 250 MB per file/upload (unlike box’s measly 10MB), 1 GB daily public download bandwidth, plus online image/doc editing, file format conversion, Facebook.com integration, photo album creation/sharing, public file links, e-mail files with no attachment sizes…it really is a one-stop shop for online file hosting/storing. And no software installation.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:34:10 +0000

Intertesting to see such a varied response to such a wide range of backup options.

I think where alot of these solutions fall down is when they try and preach to the unconverted. I believe they rather the miss a whole (and wider) band of people that don’t want to be bothered with installing and configuring software (no matter how simple that may be) and could otherwise be ‘introduced’ to online backup in a way that doesn’t involve installing yet another bit of proprietary software – like me.

Give me somewhere I can just backup to using drag and drop WebDAV or some other browser based solution and hell I am more than taken care of.

That’s where I think box.net, bingodisk.com, and ewedrive.com are clear winners for people like me (of which there are a lot more than most backup companies seem to think).