[PLUG-TALK] Public content hosting - box.net, or?

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Sat Feb 26 01:27:07 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> a while, but I will probably want 20GB to 50GB over the next
> few years.  Moving providers would mean a lot of URL rewriting
> on my websites, so I want to find a place I can stick with.
>

I used AOL's xdrive which lasted 4 or 5 years and was closed in early
2009. They provided 5GB free.  There is lots of competition in this
area, don't count on them all surviving.
The old xdrive website http://www.xdrive.com/ is now redirecting you
to  box.net   Are they related?  Amazon's S3 is $0.15 a month per
gigabyte. That would cost you $45/year for 25GB. Box.net says that
25GB will cost you $9.99/month. Amazon also charges for bandwidth, so
if you get slashdotted this price might go up. Box.net oddly does not
mention bandwidth.

Bill



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