My personal ...favorite now is Copy.com because for my use its free. (I also have accounts with Dropbox and Box.com , sugar sync, and skydrive icloud and google drive.)
They give you 15 gigs for free unlike the 5 or 2 others give you, Plus I could send you / anyone here an invite link and you get an extra 5 gigs just using the link. It works on all my devices and is run by barracuda networks. Bob Lee -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 7:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Advice on selecting cloud storage and backup services? > > I'm overwhelmed with the options for cloud storage and backup. Anyone > have a favorite service they would like to recommend or a service to > definitely avoid? My use cases are cloud accessible storage for > roaming Windows/Mac laptops daily workstation/server(?) backups, and > limited secure file sharing between a limited number of parties. > What would be the locations of the computers that you mostly want to keep in sync? If they are all in the office, maybe a storage device (like a Synology) would be easier. They often have a cloud sync client, too. What's your storage size requirement? Beyond 100 GB things become quickly more expensive. On the other hand, renting a computer in a data center can be inexpensive. OVH offers a server with two physical drives for around $39 per month in the US. It's down to around $10 if you can live with a computer in Europe. I do have a Google Apps for Business account and use Google Drive for a lot of things. It works well enough for regular documents. Not as seamless as Dropbox, but still well enough to be worth the price difference. One thing you need to be aware of is that most sync services have a file size limit. It's 10 GB for Google Drive, Dropbox (when using the web client) and Synology CloudStation. 2 GB for SkyDrive. -- Christof --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
