Can anyone recommend a reliable online storage site that supports FTP? Thanks!
'Reliable' is the operative word here. Online anything – a.k.a. "the cloud" – is totally dependent on third parties. What are you going to do when your online private data storage hosting site goes belly-up overnight? You'll lose ALL your data!!!
Want reliable? Then install a good backup system, with double or even triple redundancy for security. Manage your own data yourself! Don't entrust the security of your private data to third parties on the other side of the country, or even the world, that you don't even know!
Besides, it doesn't work IRL: uploading say 200GB of data (the contents of a very low average harddisk) takes literally forever! Despite high-speed internet access.
I've calculated that uploading 200GB would take me (with high-speed ADSL access) a whole month of 24/7 uninterrupted uploading! Yes: 29 days plus!
I.o.w. online mass data storage is UNreliable and IMpractical IRL!
Want to send someone a lot of data – say 500MB, or even a couple of GBs worth? Like all the high resolution files of your holiday photos, or an hour of video of the grandkids' school play? Then use one of these 12 FREE Large File Transfer ('LFT') services:
• Podmailing.com is FREE and allows transfer of unlimited numbers of files of unlimited size. I've transferred upto 6GB files without a hitch. Temporarily out of order!
'Reliable' is the operative word here. Online anything ? a.k.a. "the cloud" ? is totally dependent on third parties. What are you going to do when your online private data storage hosting site goes belly-up overnight? You'll lose ALL your data!!!
Want reliable? Then install a good backup system, with double or even triple redundancy for security. Manage your own data yourself! Don't entrust the security of your private data to third parties on the other side of the country, or even the world, that you don't even know!
I agree totally.
Clone your whole boot drive if you have too, burn DVD's most reliable method, the "cloud" has proven itself not only insecure and unreliable, but dangerous.
Oops...! Burnt DVDs are only reliably readable for 5 years. All bets are off after that! Osmosis! So burnt DVDs are suitable for MEDIUM TERM data storage only!
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Article doesn't seem to answer your ftp question...
Not sure if you can read it online.
I've been using IDrive for a few weeks now.
Can anyone recommend a reliable online storage site that supports FTP? Thanks!
'Reliable' is the operative word here. Online anything – a.k.a. "the cloud" – is totally dependent on third parties. What are you going to do when your online private data storage hosting site goes belly-up overnight? You'll lose ALL your data!!!
Want reliable? Then install a good backup system, with double or even triple redundancy for security. Manage your own data yourself! Don't entrust the security of your private data to third parties on the other side of the country, or even the world, that you don't even know!
Besides, it doesn't work IRL: uploading say 200GB of data (the contents of a very low average harddisk) takes literally forever! Despite high-speed internet access.
I've calculated that uploading 200GB would take me (with high-speed ADSL access) a whole month of 24/7 uninterrupted uploading! Yes: 29 days plus!
I.o.w. online mass data storage is UNreliable and IMpractical IRL!
Want to send someone a lot of data – say 500MB, or even a couple of GBs worth? Like all the high resolution files of your holiday photos, or an hour of video of the grandkids' school play? Then use one of these 12 FREE Large File Transfer ('LFT') services:
• Podmailing.com is FREE and allows transfer of unlimited numbers of files of unlimited size. I've transferred upto 6GB files without a hitch. Temporarily out of order!
http://www.podmailing.com/
• WeTransfer.com is FREE for upto 2GB of files or (zipped) folders per transfer.
http://www.wetransfer.com//
• Yousendit.com is FREE upto 1GB/month with max 100MB per transfer.
http://www.yousendit.com/
• Pando.com is FREE upto 1GB of files or folders per transfer.
http://www.pando.com/
• Sendspace.com is FREE upto 300MB per transfer.
http://www.sendspace.com/
• Pipebytes.com (beta) is FREE for files (not folders, so zip those) upto 300MB per transfer.
http://www.pipebytes.com/
• Youconvertit.com is FREE for files (not folders, so zip those) upto 1GB per transfer.
http://www.youconvertit.com/
• Filedropper.com is FREE for files (not folders, so zip those) upto 5GB per transfer.
http://www.filedropper.com/
• Transferbigfiles.com is FREE for files (not folders, so zip those) upto ???MB/GB per transfer (untested).
http://www.transferbigfiles.com/
• Mailbigfile.com is FREE for files (not folders, so zip those) upto ???MB/GB per transfer (untested).
http://www.mailbigfile.com/
• zUPLOAD.com is FREE for files (not folders, so zip those) upto ???MB/GB per transfer (untested).
http://www.zupload.com/
• MegauUpload.com is FREE for files (not folders, so zip those) upto ???MB/GB per transfer (untested).
http://www.megaupload.com/
I use WeTransfer.com, Filedropper.com, and YouSendIt.com on a daily basis.
'Reliable' is the operative word here. Online anything ? a.k.a. "the cloud" ? is totally dependent on third parties. What are you going to do when your online private data storage hosting site goes belly-up overnight? You'll lose ALL your data!!!
Want reliable? Then install a good backup system, with double or even triple redundancy for security. Manage your own data yourself! Don't entrust the security of your private data to third parties on the other side of the country, or even the world, that you don't even know!
I agree totally.
Clone your whole boot drive if you have too, burn DVD's most reliable method, the "cloud" has proven itself not only insecure and unreliable, but dangerous.
Read enough Slashdot, you'll see.
...burn DVD's most reliable method [...]
Oops...! Burnt DVDs are only reliably readable for 5 years. All bets are off after that! Osmosis! So burnt DVDs are suitable for MEDIUM TERM data storage only!
Better write the date you burnt them on them...