DreamHost, one of the largest website hosters in the world, just announced that they allow each customer to host 50GB of their backups with an account. Those 50GB will not be accessible via a website, just with FTP or SFTP.
In the August 2008 newsletter, DreamHost describes it as like this:
You CAN use 50GB of your disk space for backups now! The only caveat is, it’s a separate ftp (or sftp) user on a separate server and it can’t serve any web pages. There are also NO BACKUPS kept of THESE backups (they should already BE your backups, not your only copy), and if you go over 50GB, extra space is only 10 cents a GB a month (a.k.a. cheap)!
If you are already a customer with DreamHost, you find that new option under “User” > “Backup User” or by clicking this link.
With Webdrive you can take full advantage of the high amount disk space included in your account. You are no longer limited to hosting only your website and email but can also use your account as external storage!
Virtual Hard Disk
Use your Servage account for personal documents and files. You can access your data from any Internet connected PC. No more need for USB keys, CDs and Disks.
You can associate your Webdrive with a domain name and share your photos and documents with the world. Or you can install a gallery script like Linpha or Gallery2 and display your personal photo gallery.
The software is available for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. Linux users can simply mount the Webdrive as an FTP account and are ready to go. Thanks to the Explorer integration on Windows you do not see a difference between your real hard drive and your Webdrive. Just drag and drop your files.
You can even create several accounts for your family members and create a reliable and secure online backup solution. And those files are accessible via FTP and your web browser. It is that easy!
If you sign up with this link, you will get an additional 25GB of storage for free!
http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust20102
The Wuala team informs today about the immediate launch of their services as public beta. Everybody can now try wuala and share her media over the distributed storage solution.
“After more than three years of development and ten months of testing in closed alpha, we are very proud to release Wuala to the public”, says Dominik Grolimund, CEO. “Our alpha users, who are storing and sharing millions of files, have given us tremendous feedback and use Wuala very actively and with great enthusiasm. We believe that Wuala is the right tool for millions of people to securely manage and share their files online.”
The beta offers a new way to share and manage your files: It is no longer required - but still possible - to install the Wuala client on your computer.
The closed alpha, which had been released in September 2007, has been very successful and generated a lot of buzz. Tens of thousands of people and thousands of communities around the world are actively sharing millions of files in Wuala. Now that Wuala is available for everyone, it’s ready to scale up to millions of people.
How to use Wuala
If you just want to take a quick look how Wuala works just click on the Start button on Wua.la. The web client will launch and you can browse all public files and download them. Once you have decided to install the desktop client, select “Setup Wuala on this computer”. After the installation you are asked to create a new account. This will allow you to upload your files and only share them with your friends, if you want that.
And if your need for space is greater than the 1 GB Wuala initially gives you, you can share your computer’s space or buy additional storage from Wuala.
More features can be found on the new designed web page.
Mosso, a US based and RackSpace backed hosting company, has recently announced the launch of their Cloud Storage beta. You can register at their website and the beta is free.
The CloudFS’ main features are:
- Scalable, dynamic storage. Use as much or little as you want and only pay for what you use.
- Straightforward, basic design offering one level of containers (non-nested) for your data.
- Per-account container and file namespace (not a global namespace as with other systems).
- Store files as small as a few bytes or as large as 5GB.
- Add additional metadata along with each file you store.
Prices have not yet been announced, but the press release talks about $0.15 per Gigabyte storage, which is similar to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
The full press released is included after the jump.
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