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Offline Kaz

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FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« on: April 24, 2009, 09:36 »
Since My external hard drive  broke down on me I have been thinking of backing up my pics and stuff to an online storage place.
Can anyone give me some advice on this is it safe secure?  I don't want to have to pay for this if possible is there a free service, do any of you use a online storage or can recommend one, it would just be another option I'm thinking what do you think?
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2009, 09:51 »
I've heard of people using some services.  Personally, I would be concerned about privacy, and wouldn't store anything too confidential online.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2009, 10:09 »
Same here, Simon, plus a lot of these have shut down recently, so I suspect it's not a viable service.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2009, 10:41 »
One possibly viable option might be to find an ISP that offers generous webspace, rather than an 'anonymous' online storage facility, which could simply vanish overnight.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2009, 10:54 »
I have just had an email off Virgin offering customers (me) free 5GB storage space the size of storage goes with what ever package you have and it's free what do you think about that as an alternative?
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2009, 10:58 »
It depends whether you would be happy with Virgin, Kaz. Their cable service performs reasonably well, but their ADSL service has come in for a lot of criticism.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2009, 11:32 »
I think I read it that Kaz is already with Virgin, Rik.

My personal feeling is still that I wouldn't trust anyone else with my confidential data, but I would think to use it as a backup for pics and non-critical data would be fine.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2009, 11:41 »
Yes Simon that's what I would use it for Pics and music mainly just to give me another string to my bow and yes I'm already with Virgin have been for quite a while I haven't had any major problems with them (you watch Ill get a load of crap from them now)
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2009, 11:42 »
Ah, missed that. The slow upload speed might be an issue to consider, as might the issue of musical copyright.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2009, 11:51 »
Why would copyright be an issue, Rik?  She wouldn't be making the files available to anyone else, although, I suppose the capacity would be there to do so.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2009, 12:02 »
Because Virgin are one of the ISPs getting cosy with the BPI.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2009, 12:22 »
It says that I can store what ever I like documents pics music
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2009, 12:43 »
You can only try it, and see how it goes, Kaz.
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2009, 12:46 »
Rik, what's the index.php thing Kaz will need to do, to stop anyone who stumbles across her webspace from accessing her files?
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Re: FREE Online Storage good or bad?
« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2009, 14:44 »
I don't think it's webspace, but vault space, Simon. If it is webspace, then:

<html>
   <head>
      <title>No Browsing</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h1>No Browsing</h1>
   </body>
</html>

Cut'n'paste and save as index.html.
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