Online data storage

[oracleslave]

Having just had my second external hard disk crash on me I am now looking at utilising some online storeage as part of my back-ups file storage strategy. Anyone store large amounts of data on-line? Any recommendations?

[NickFitz]

I use Amazon S3, although that's primarily because I also use EC2 and SQS.

They've had occasional downtime, but I don't think they've ever actually lost anybody's data.

[oracleslave]

The google mail thingie keeps telling me I've got 6.7Gb of free storage.

Correction: 7Gb.

I need a bit more than that

[dang65]

I use Amazon S3, although that's primarily because I also use EC2 and SQS.

Is there some kind of basic web front end for Amazon S3 somewhere? I signed up for it, expecting a "go to this site to start uploading your files" kind of message, but there's nothing???

There are a few links to other services which use Amazon S3 themselves, and there's a downloadable application which you have to install, but I just want a straight Upload/Download interface to my own account without having to install anything or develop something for myself.

Any clues?

[NickFitz]

Is there some kind of basic web front end for Amazon S3 somewhere? I signed up for it, expecting a "go to this site to start uploading your files" kind of message, but there's nothing???

There are a few links to other services which use Amazon S3 themselves, and there's a downloadable application which you have to install, but I just want a straight Upload/Download interface to my own account without having to install anything or develop something for myself.

Any clues?

There's https://s3interface.com:444/ although it's up to you if you want to give your security info to them.

The real problem with a web-based interface is that you face potential timeout issues unless you use a dedicated server - uploading, say, a 1GB file takes a while, and isn't really what a normal web server is designed for. The above-linked site apparently imposes a 10MB limit, presumably for this very reason.

I use the OS X application Transmit which, although it started life as an FTP client, has supported S3 for a while now. I don't know if there are any Windows or Linux FTP clients that have such support.

This guy has some thoughts on the matter.

[Iamthick]

I use Amazon S3, although that's primarily because I also use EC2 and SQS.

They've had occasional downtime, but I don't think they've ever actually lost anybody's data.

They are not free

[dang65]

There's https://s3interface.com:444/ although it's up to you if you want to give your security info to them.

That'll probably be ok for me, to be honest. I only want to stick various documents up there which I'd normally carry round on a USB stick and be paranoid of losing. Somewhere I can bung useful stuff and access from anywhere is fine. Cheers.

[dang65]

I've tried s3interface.com. I can upload files ok (PDF, DOC, XLS) but to download you have to click on a link (no right-click, save target as option) and it tries to open the file in the browser.

I'm sure this is all to do with security and so on, but it's a pain in the ass.

Experimenting with http://www.digitalbucket.net now.

[Likely]

I ve checked SkyDrive and Google Docs ,neither works for me ,with Skydrive limited to 50 MB file upload and google is worse than that..

still looking ..

[oracleslave]

And the limit to the number of Gmail accounts is?

Remembering under which account each file is located sounds like a nightmare. You fail!