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Online File Storage

Here’s a bookmark to available online file storage systems: (please add to the list)

Amazon S3 (my personal favorite… so far)

Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. The service aims to maximize benefits of scale and to pass those benefits on to developers.

AOL Xdrive

Xdrive, your 5GB personal hard drive on the Internet, is the best alternative to other storage devices. Remodeling your kitchen in 2005 was your baby, and you’ve got the files to prove it. Or maybe it’s that archive of family photos you spent so much time scanning into your computer. Or maybe even it’s your business’ project files that are taking over your hard drive. Either way, you want easy backup and more secure storage where virtually nothing can get to your precious files. And all of this without the worry of losing or damaging a piece of hardware.

Microsoft LiveDrive

Livedrive has a simple vision: that all files, documents, music, videos, personal information, settings and other data which people currently save on their computers should be stored centrally and securely online. It should be accessible from anywhere and easily shared. And it should be carefully backed up and encrypted so that you never lose any files again – even if you change your PC.

We’re creating the technology that will service the demands of tomorrow’s information age.

Livedrive, The Internet’s Hard Drive, is funded and founded by Andrew Michael, the founder of Fasthosts Internet Limited, the UK’s market leading web-hosting company. Andrew is a prolific entrepreneur with a variety of business interests. He has extensive experience in the technology industry, having previously founded Fasthosts, which was acquired in 2006 by United Internet for over $100m.

Livedrive has received significant funding and support from within the industry and is currently working on its initial beta launch.

YahooDrive – I dont have a link to this one…. All I know is that it’s a Yahoo Offering… and I’m sure it’s not http://briefcase.yahoo.com/

iBackup

IBackup’s online backup services include applications for interactive and automatic scheduling of backups with compression during transmission, incremental/full backups, encryption, synchronization, open file support for MS SQL Server, MS Exchange, Oracle Server Backups and many more. With IBackup Professional (requires a separate signup), users can have higher security with default encryption on storage and higher retention with versioning upto 30 versions.

Google Gdrive

Your shared storage space will be used by whatever service needs it. Picasa’s free storage is for photos only, and Gmail’s is just for Gmail messages, but the shared storage can be all photos, all messages or a mix of both. You can’t set aside shared storage space for one service – it will be used by any service that’s over its free storage quota on a first-come, first-served basis.
6 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
25 GB ($75.00 USD per year)
100 GB ($250.00 USD per year)
250 GB ($500.00 USD per year)

nirvanix

Nirvanix offers on-demand Internet storage for web-enabled applications with its Storage Delivery Service (SDS). Once online applications integrate to Nirvanix SDS via web services, they can scale instantly to meet the storage demands for hosting and delivering billions of media files to millions of end-users.

box box is available for the iPhone too

Box Enterprise provides organizations of any size with an efficient file access and collaboration solution. It is the most flexible way to securely build collaborative spaces and exchange working documents with colleagues, clients, partners, and suppliers without having to give away your VPN credentials or deal with a cumbersome FTP site.

Comments
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rohanpinto   # rohanpinto
  Posted 781 days ago. (hide)

for this who are not very familiar with using S3.. there’s always jungledisk and elasticdrive

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TollywoodBollywood   # TollywoodBollywood
  Posted 781 days ago. (hide)

Never knew Amazon offered space…thanks…

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rohanpinto   # rohanpinto
  Posted 781 days ago. (hide)

@tolly – Amazon S3 has been around for ages.. the other amazon offering i like a lot is Amazon EC2 .. it’s awesome.. and costs upto 70$ per EC2 instance per month if the instance has been kept running 24 hours a day…

it’s a BOON to developers, as one could fire up a EC2 instance and keep it running for only the period of time they want to test their application and then turn it off. the billing meter would bill you only for the time it’s been running.. and it’s damn cheap… ($0.10 per instance-hour consumed)

They also have Amazon FPS which is an awesome API based payment processing service :-)

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TollywoodBollywood   # TollywoodBollywood
  Posted 781 days ago. (hide)

I am almost signed up Rohan, it looks like there are no monthly charges and all the charges are only for data transfers, am I right…

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rohanpinto   # rohanpinto
  Posted 781 days ago. (hide)

true… almost… the charges are for storage and data transfer….

Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used

Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB – all data transfer in

$0.18 per GB – first 10 TB / month data transfer out
$0.16 per GB – next 40 TB / month data transfer out
$0.13 per GB – data transfer out / month over 50 TB

Data transfer “in” and “out” refers to transfer into and out of Amazon S3.
Data transferred between Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 is free of charge

Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 PUT or LIST requests
$0.01 per 10,000 GET and all other requests*

  • No charge for delete requests

and if you need absolutly any help with amazon S3. let me know.. i can help you set it up and integrate whatever you want with your site/app pretty easily…

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TollywoodBollywood   # TollywoodBollywood
  Posted 781 days ago. (hide)

OMG!! I don’t know what to do now…

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