[Tom_E]

Amazon S3 looks interesting, and pretty reasonable.

Been thinking about online storage for a while now, any other good ones to check out?

I'm looking just for storage, not hosting etc.

[Shiro]

Hosts that offer unlimited space and bandwidth have clauses in their TC's that stop you using a lot of space and bandwidth... it's a bit of a trick really. You can see how far you get though, but usually when you start to take use of the "unlimited", they shut you off.

I contacted Bluehost about that when they became unlimited. I asked the guy about 'fair use' clauses and the like, and he said that as long as you aren't hosting content you don't have the rights to (ie: filesharing), they had no limit.

Maybe I didn't ask the right questions, but I definitely tried.

[sub]

I thought this sounded too good to be true. Makes sense really as there'd be no way for these hosts to keep up with capacity.

Looking at Amazon's S3 service I see that:

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

# Write, read, and delete objects containing from 1 byte to 5 gigabytes of data each. The number of objects you can store is unlimited.

Which is fine if I only had a handful of 5GB files but I'm looking at uploading 10 to 20 GB at a time. Ideally as a torrent.

# Each object is stored in a bucket and retrieved via a unique, developer-assigned key.

Sounds like a bit of a pain in the arse - and how secure is a bucket!?

[Pugsley]

there's a hole in my bucket dear simon

[Tom_E]

Been looking at storage options, iDrive.com offers 150GB storage for $4.95 per month, good Mac support too.

Sounds half decent. Anyone use them?

[sub]

That looks just the ticket. They do 2GB full featured for free so might be worth signing up to see how it all works.