I'm looking for recommendations for an online backup service - preferably based on your personal experience with the service.
I'm currently using two online backup services that are relatively close to another. I'm hoping to spread my risk by finding another online backup (or hosting) service whose location is not in California (and preferably not near major earthquake faults, active volcanos, etc) Here's who I'm using now: 1. LunarPages.com (FTP backup folder on our hosted site) LunarPages is our website hosting vendor; we use a significant portion of our 8G of storage space for online backups. Downside is that data must be transfered via FTP (non-secure) and max file size is (in practice) 30M or so. 2. Strongspace.com StrongSpace *requires* an SFTP interface. There are no file size limitations but I've found that file transfer speeds are much slower than what we get with LunarPages FTP accounts. Comments: Both of these services have been reliable, with LunarPages being exceptionally reliable. StrongSpace is hosted by the same people that host Textdrive. Textdrive is a "cool place to be seen", but my hosting experience there was a TOTAL DIASTER so I've always been a bit nervous about their StrongSpace service ... but so far, so good. We use webdrive (webdrive.com) to map FTP and SFTP to virtual drives on these services and then use batch files and WSH scripts (and a few VFP scripts) to move data to these sites. Note: Neither of these services supports WebDAV. Alternatives I've looked at: 1. Ibackup - a decent alternative to Xdrive and high on my list to look at. I used an earlier version of this service for a client project and was impressed by the service, but scared of the pricing. Ibackup's pricing is now very competitive. 2. Xdrive (the original online backup service) is now owned by AOL, has a *FREE* 5G plan (if you have an AOL screen name), and has its own virtual drive mapping software. The problem is that this service has such a @#*([EMAIL PROTECTED] poor trackrecord, that I've stayed away from it after being burned a few times. 3. Textdrive (the StrongSpace people) have annouced their new www.bingodisk.com service - $200/year for 100G online storage. All access is via WebDAV. There are no monthly plans - you have to make a year commitment. Sounds great, but Textdrive's hosting track record is just so scary ... AND ... just tried to visit bingodisk.com and its DOWN. Another limitation of this service is a max of 10G bandwidth/month. Anyone else have some experiences/recommendations to share? Malcolm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** 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.
