I use Dreamhost as the host for gotshoo.com and a bunch of other sites. Really cheap hosting with a somewhat reliable reputation. The hosting plan I have gives me 300+ GB in storage. For a long time I considered what the heck to do with all the storage since most of my stuff doesn’t take up more than a few gig. A few months ago I read a tutorial on how to backup your personal files using some Unix utilities (Rsync). So, I created a job that every night it would sync up my photos and music directories with my online storage. Awesome idea, right?!
Maybe it was the account name that gave it away, ’shoobackup.’ I got an email from support stating ‘Hey, it’s cool what your doing but your hosting plan doesn’t allow for it. Delete everything or start paying us $ .20 per GB a month’, which was up to a 100GB. I just deleted my account.
Anyone else use some kind of online storage backup? I checked out Amazon’s S3, they’re about $.15 per GB. Curious to hear what anyone else has to say.
Another friend of mine was doing similar with GoDaddy’s webhosting plan. He got caught (twice), and given 24 hours to get the stuff off of there or they’d shut it all down.
The last time it happened was just yesterday, and unfortunately this friend has signed a 3 year contract, 1 year ago. Doh!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/31/the-online-storage-gang/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelarrington/93730415/sizes/o/