Dropbox alternatives: Cloud storage solutions

I use SkyDrive (25GB storage) and on my 2 notebooks and 1 desktop I use Gladinet to keep them in synch. I used to use SDExplorer (licensed version) but not as reliable as Gladinet so stick to Gladinet now (www.gladinet.com).
On my Android device I can then access all my docs via the web browser easily.

Works like a charm.
 
Quiet happy with Dropbox and what really has me hooked on Dropbox is the ability to run websites off of my local machine, makes editing so much easier.
 
OtakuD said:
Am I the only one with issues about security on these things or does everyone only use it for non-critical data?
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+1

Out of interest, I've been looking at some options like synching a TrueCrypt volume via the providers, but nothing really seems to give me strong control of security without seriously hurting useability. Wasn't aware of SpiderOak until now, and their model seems the most promising from a privacy/confidentiality perspective, guess I'll run some tests to verify.

Not that we can't trust guys giving away free stuff! I mean, Facebook, Google, etc. would never try to use our info for personal gain... ;)

Another consideration is net accessibility. I still like having my most important "stuff" right there on the drive - quicker to get to, cheaper (no data charges), and not dependent on coverage. I'm currently using Win Live Mesh to continuously sync some non-critical stuff between machines when I'm on my hone-net, and on-demand to sync between machines remotely.
 
Dropbox is awesome. It's just so easy.

And thanks for the free space link!
 
Ive been wanting to backup my stuff on one of these online services for a while, I have about 11 gigs I need to store and my requirements are:

1) privacy
2) cost
3) multiple operating systems

Up until now I havent really commited to using any of the various providers, until I read about spider oak and it would seem that it fits the bill for me.

I would love it if Spider oak had a smaller packages though, like ubuntu one's 20gig for $3, however they are still cheaper than dropbox and offer privacy, so I guess thats a small trade off.
 
davemc said:
The rumor mill is hinting at a product form Google called GDrive, but, specifics are scarce.
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this has been rumoured for a good few years.
you'd think that with >7gb of storage on gmail that google would have added online storage solution ages ago.
it's a bit of a disappointment...
unless the plan on buying dropbox out.
 
murraybiscuit said:
this has been rumoured for a good few years.
you'd think that with >7gb of storage on gmail that google would have added online storage solution ages ago.
it's a bit of a disappointment...
unless the plan on buying dropbox out.
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Some peeps in some forums are speculating that the competition control peeps in the USA stepped in and basically advised Google against creating a product like GDrive.
No evidence of course.
 
Strange list, what about Jungledisk ? It is Amazon's service , which is probably one of the largest cloud platforms out there [Amazon S3 Storage] .
 
Thanks for the info on Jungledisk.
( Jungledisk = First 2 GB free, but it looks like you have to provide billing information before you get the free stuff )
 
davemc said:
Thanks for the info on Jungledisk.
( Jungledisk = First 2 GB free, but it looks like you have to provide billing information before you get the free stuff )
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Well Amazon's service does not limit you. They give you "unlimited" space . You literally pay for how much you actually use, hence why they want your billing , so that if you go to 2.1GB they start billing you for the 0.1gb. So you don't "upgrade" or buy more space, you just use and get billed accordingly. If you use less, you pay less.

Jungledisk itself you will pay for the "application" [about $2 a month] and the rest is usage charges. The application is what shines for me, because it mounts this "unlimited" space as a network drive [i.e. like a mapped drive with a letter in explorer] , which means you can use any sync/backup/whatever app you like with it. Amazon obviously have a ton of extra services on top of this space [i.e. sharing files , hosting your website directly on this space etc etc]

You don't have to use Jungledisk [the application] you can sign up directly at Amazon and get the same storage there, but then you need S3-tools to access the drive [firefox actually have an S3 storage addon for this], and it becomes very tecnical . Jungledisk is just one "tool" to easily manage your S3 storage, the best i've found anyway, but certainly not the only one.

Here: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
Jungledisk : https://www.jungledisk.com/ (they have an iphone app too)

Chances are Dropbox and all those on the list most likely use something like Amazon S3 anyway, they just built their own tool on top of it. They make their money by charging for 5Gb when you only use 4GB [and amazon charge them only for the 4GB] ;)
 
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Has anyone used adrive.com?

Seems you get 50Gb free.
 
Are there any good and well priced local versions? If one can use local only data to backup then it would save a heap of money compared to using these international backup services!?
 
Now that PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) has been obliterated by Symantec, what tools are available to properly encrypt data with generated keys nowadays?
 
Dropbox meets my needs the best. Once a file has been uploaded to them it never gets uploaded twice and it also supports syncing over your LAN which saves oodles of bandwidth if you can get both machines on the same LAN that is...
 
andytl5 said:
Are there any good and well priced local versions? If one can use local only data to backup then it would save a heap of money compared to using these international backup services!?
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webmail.co.za offers 10gb free file storage per account, ....but then they're no longer local :(
 
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