'Internet' network drive

[Clippy]

123reg are doing a freebie one too - http://drive.123reg.co.uk

no idea if it's any good or not - I've just signed up for it though!

Correct link: http://www.123-reg.co.uk/online-storage-drive/

Not a bad find, cheers.

[xoggoth]

On access I only found out recently that any website can be shown and used as disc storage in ordinary Windows (not internet) Explorer. Just type in the ftp address.

[TheFaQQer]

Correct link: http://www.123-reg.co.uk/online-storage-drive/

Not a bad find, cheers.

Doh - missed the hyphen! The login page is http://drive.123-reg.co.uk

[NoddY]

Further advice from me it not to trust remote storage, who knows who has access. Companies change ownership, privacy policies and jurisdictions. However, file level encryption is a nice technical solution to this problem.

[ladymuck]

Nildram (part of Pipex) also do free online storage, accessable via mobile as well as the internetwebthing

http://broadband.nildram.net/online-storage/

Dunno what it's like but I've been an ADSL customer of theirs for years and that side of things has always been reliable.

[VectraMan]

Bump.

I've been looking at these. XDrive required a US phone number, which wasn't a good sign, and it's AOL. I tried to sign up to the Nildram service (which isn't free), but their website wouldn't work. Not a good sign either.

http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/ sounded very promising, but the "live protect" feature the reviews praised (backs up as soon as files change) has been removed from the latest version of the software.

So I've settled on http://www.carbonite.com/. $50 p.a. for unlimited backup. The downside is that it's meant for one PC only (I think it's clever enough to work out network drives), and it's a backup solution rather than somewhere to copy files to, but it does integrate with Windows Explorer and seems to be working well in a fit and forget way.

[ladymuck]

Nildram ceased their online storage service some time ago, which is probably why the link no longer works.

If you prefer to host the files yourself, you can get hold of Easy File Share, which runs as a service on your PC or server. Really easy to use and set up. You can either buy the software for just under $50 or get a time limited freebie if you know you only need it for a short time. It also has a SSL option if you're worried about security.

http://www.sharing-file.com/

[madhippy]

just started using jungledisk.com

seems ok - bit diff. to tell how much it costs tho due to way they charge ...

[daviejones]

Why not just buy a NAS box and allow access to it from anywhere???

[VectraMan]

Nildram ceased their online storage service some time ago, which is probably why the link no longer works.

It's still advertised on their front page.