Online storage anyone?

[vixenk]

Anyone know of an online storage company that can be trusted to stay quiet about what you store privately? *i.e. backup for personal use and not sharing*

I was interested in a company called Streamload due to their pricing being based on monthly download limits *which meant unlimited storage, which atm I need more than unlimited downloading*, which meant cheap rates, up until I noticed their rather suspicious privacy statement.

"No Warranties. Due to technical, legal and practical limitations, Streamload cannot warrant and does not guarantee, and You should not expect, that all of Your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. Streamload may disclose information to governmental authorities or third parties under certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications. You authorize Streamload to disclose any information about You to law enforcement or other government officials as Streamload, in its sole discretion, believes necessary, prudent or appropriate, in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, or other activity that is illegal or may expose Streamload to legal liability."

Seems rather different than the usual "if they don't ask we don't tell" policy most privacy statements stick to.

So does anyone know of a similar company that DOESN'T have the shifty looking privacy statement?

[pimpinaman]

....had your storage got to be "off site" or can you use something like NASlite?

[vixenk]

"off site"

[Auggie2k]

Finding a reliable storage site even you pay for can be hard but there is a simple solution I have never had any problems with and it's free.

Get yourself a Gmail account (https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount) and use it in conjunction with Gmail Drive (http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm). You can use Gmails 2.5+ GB of space for anything easily.

NOTE: Keep your Gmail Software updated reguraly because security changes in Gmail's login procedure tend to change a bit.

[napho]

I was gonna say Gmail and Peer2Mail if you want to store large things. http://www.peer2mail.com/



Peer2Mail is the first software that lets you store and share files on any web-mail account. If you have a web mail account with large storage space, you can use P2M to store files on it. Web-mail providers such as Gmail (Google Mail), Walla!, Yahoo and more, provide storage space that ranges from 100MB to 3GB.
P2M splits the file you want to share/store zips and encrypts it. P2M then sends the file segments one by one to your account. Once P2M uploaded all file segments, you can download them and use P2M to merge the segments back to the original file.
Peer2Mail is 100% FREE.

[boogiedan]

yep gotta back up Peer2mail
if im correct they released anupdate about 1week ago

[vixenk]

I tried Gmail Drive but it couldn't connect to the Gmail server...

Haven't tried Peer2Mail yet but I will check it out. :)

Wow, I'm going to have to make quite a few Gmail accounts to get the storage space I need though, lol.

[shawners]

why again you need online storage space?

[Krell]

Dont use gmail, its just wrong

Use google, type HOSTING and find a service that gives you bandwidth, and storage, and just PAY for the fucking service.

You cant pick up any computing mag without seeing ads for hosting, and even on the right side of a google page, those ads too have to be paid for. If you want reliable service, decent bandwidth, and any resemblence of privacy, youre going to have to pay for it.

As for absolute privacy, good luck, there is none, get over it.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=hosting+for+storage


why again you need online storage space?
Exactly

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[cpugeniusmv]

I also recommend against using Gmail for a storage system (especially via that Gmail drive). It violates the Terms of Service; they can (and likely will) crack down on those abusing their service at some point in the future.

Lots of good results for the query online storage. I didn't see GoDaddy in the first page of results, but their backup service is probably worth looking at.

https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/email/vsdb_landing.asp?se=%2B&app%5Fhdr=&ci=2689

[napho]

Dont use gmail, its just wrong


It seems like you don't think it's right to use Gmail for something that it wasn't intended for...that it's wrong to put things where they don't belong. Sounds like the same argument people use against anal sex! :icon_sant

[Krell]

Even if you can upload files > than 10mb, this is still the same shitty "i must get everything in the world for free" attitude associated with P2P users.

http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php

If you want to send xmas pics to granny, go for it, if you want to try to restore your computer from it - good luck with that! If you want to move MP3s and films to and from work, get your own fucking removable drive and stop killing your companies bandwidth.

Buy a 2gb thumb drive.

The problem that plagues P2P is stupidity, and people who are too god damned cheap for their own good.


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[cletis_van_damm]

use a 30 gigs account and gmail.

[napho]

Being cheap and greedy is the very nature of filesharing 2005. I hear the same arguments for piracy that communists used to use; the big companies are money grubbers who're screwing us, the artists are too rich and don't deserve any more $ etc. The poor must rise up and steal!
Theoretically it's wrong to pirate a movie that cost $100 million to make or a CD that an artist spent 3 years of their life creating, but it's too late now. The era of the selfish pirate is upon us, and I must admit it's kinda fun.:icon_thum

[vixenk]

The only reason why I was considering online storage in the first place is because I THOUGHT it would be a temporary solution to my current issue- which is needing a new hdd that I currently can't afford atm.

I AM willing to pay for it, I just would like to find a company that charges by monthly bandwidth used instead of storage space- because I need more storage than I do bandwidth, obviously, and unlimited bandwidth is more expensive for the companies *which translates into being more expensive for you* than storage space, and I simply don't need it since I'll only be using it once to dl my files on to a new hdd.

However, the ONE company that I managed to find that priced their plans according to monthly bandwidth has the privacy policy I showed you. I'm not expecting complete and total privacy, but I do expect a company to do the usual "if they don't ask, we don't tell" instead of saying basically "if it's there, and believe us, we'll look, we tell" as this one company's privacy policy seems to suggest.

The data I'm seeking to move off my hdds temporarily so I can more space until I can get a new hdd is actually mp3 backups I've made of my entire cd collection *so you can see why I can deal with simply throwing it on a server for a while... and also why I need a lot of space*. I COULD delete it all and redo it but I don't really want to trash something that took me weeks to do only to do it over again. And call me paranoid, but I also DON'T want to get accused of stealing music I already own, or whatever, by some nosy company I'm paying to keep my files secure.

[shawners]

Yeah but think of it this way, your throwing money away for online storage when it can be used for drive.. Why not burn to dvdr or cd ?? TO me, the whole filesharing realm is an online storage.. my cd gets corrupted, scratched, or my software stops working.. download it again and reinstall or burn.