Comments on: Cream of the cloud: The top premium web services

By: John DeRegnaucourt

John DeRegnaucourt — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:51:33 +0000

What makes MyOtherDrive unique, is that we offer full featured online backup that is very easy to use. We offer 128-bit encryption that occurs on the your PC before your files are uploaded to our servers, which protects them going across the Internet and keeps them unreadable even to us. Our automated backup is a snap to schedule. It has change detection so that only new and changed files are sent up each night.

And unlike many competitors, one MyOtherDrive account can be used on more than one computer.

Also, we over much more than just online backup. Our service supports public and private file sharing. You can set up links to files that require a user to enter a password before access the link. Same for folders.

Another very unique feature of MOD is the ability to copy and move files and folders between accounts – all on the backend – with no upload. That eliminates a lot of upload / download time.

We support grabbing a file from a URL and saving it into your account. All of this, for a price that is often 1/2 to 1/3 of many of our competitors.

We just completed our planned data center upgrade, hence the temporary outage you experienced.

By: raddevon

raddevon — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:05:32 +0000

I’m having a bit of trouble hitting your site right now. What does it offer that the others do not?

By: John DeRegnaucrout

John DeRegnaucrout — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:16:07 +0000

For true online backup, though, you need to go with a service like ours that supports more than pictures, large files, and encryption.

Our service is 4.99 / month for 100gb backup or 9.99 / month for 400gb…and our service is amazing.

By: raddevon

raddevon — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:51:32 +0000

Thank you, Christian. I wish I could have gone with SmugMug, but I chose Flickr for three reasons: I already know Flickr; it’s cheaper; and I love that the community is so huge. I’ve never heard anyone say they didn’t like SmugMug.

By: christian

christian — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:17:54 +0000

good short list of services. any premium service at the top of its nitche should certainly charge a reasonable fee. they develop a service that fits a certain need, people will buy. i have tried and reviewed some on the list and you mirror my finds. i am a fan of smugmug myself.

By: raddevon

raddevon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:15:40 +0000

Looks like a cool service as well. I’m checking out one of the demo AJAX tutorials right now…
Thanks, Mark.

By: mark vernon

mark vernon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:28:29 +0000

How about vtc.com, which offers over 80,000 software video tutorials for $30 a month?…It’s been going since 1996, a bit longer online than lynda.com, with more variety of courses…