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- GreenAlien, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38**** SPAM ****
The person that submitted this news article used his referral link. And it's even OLD news.
Here's the plain link to the website:
http://www.orbitfiles.com/ - LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Nothing new, box has been doing this for a while now.
1 gig these days... its not very big, so hype about it being free too is flawed.
Right now, the best plan for a online hdd would probably be gmail and the gmailfs thing
thats 2.5ish gigs of space
lets just wait for live drive and gdrive or whatever itll be called. - wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I will wait for Gdrive and Microsoft Live
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Did anyone else notice that the person who submitted this article is making money if you sign up?
From the affiliates page:
"You can also make $0,50 by referring to us users who sign up with Platon Free 1000MB plan. To sign up for Platon Affiliate please visit our registration form. "
That would be why the URL contains: ?a_aid=d60eddfb
Not complaining, just making a comment. - Daychilde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12AND... Go look at his profile - EVERY SINGLE submission I saw was to his own blog... (With the exception of this link, which contains what one would assume is his referral id...)
Loser!!! - computerjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Box does do it, and if you refer a few you get 5 gigs.
- TrueVox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Wait - Did you say _SHINY_?!? WHERE? WHERE!?! /me runs off into the shiny sunset
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9There's always a catch, and right now the catch is that the servers are slow as hell.
- JustinT9669, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9There is a 30 MB max file size limit. :(
- ALLCAPS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Anyone know how do they plan to make money doing this?
I care about that because I don't want them to go bust and throw away my data. - lordthor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yes, flip, why DID you spam your referral link? (you ***** cockbite)
reported as spam. - BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6No, impolite is trying to pass off a scheme to put money into your pocket as a news item.
People like you lower the standards of the community here.
I hope you get banned. - gmacster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I wouldn't give your main email to those guys:
"Why do we need your email address?
In order to keep this great service free, we'll be sending you emails on behalf of our sponsors. The advertising emails will come directly from us (Mozy.com), and we'll only send them every once and a while. Also, we will send you important updates relating to your account and other announcements that we'd like you to know about.
Also, it'd sure help us out if you register with your primary email address so we make sure you get our emails! Sure, you could use a free email account that you never check and leech off everyone else, but just think of all the bad karma that'd you be building up!
One more thing - we'll only work with businesses that we think are offering a worthwhile product or service. Also note that we will protect your email address and personal information as if it were our own (we hate spam as much or more than you do).
Thank you!" - fuzzmello, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5many of these online storage outfits such as streamload permit huge storage quantities, then limit the upload or download amount of free accounts, and charge for either uploading or downloading or both by the mb.
- flip79, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The 30Mb limit is if you upload from your browser. There's no limit for file uploads from their dedicated client.
- csimpkins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Not only did this guy use his referral link, ALL of his previous stories submitted are his blog.
Is there a way to report people like this? - MephistoX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm thinking that they probably get a ton through advertising and that actually hosting a few servers and HD's probably doesn't cost a TON of money, and they probably only have 10 or less people working there
-- Thats partly how dreamhost operaterates anyhow. - BlackSheepx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6https://mediamax.streamload.com/index.aspx
Try 25GB :) ( 25mb upload limit :/ ) - Corsix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4They have paid plans too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not a good sign when the digg effect hits it after being on the homepage for only a minute or two. ;)
- Hydroxyl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm sure if you HAD to bypass the limit you could chop whatever file up into 20mb parts using WinRAR or WinZip.
- habenneas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think that's called being 'clever'. :)
- Badaudio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2opps
digg down - Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't access the faq but it looks like this is not a webDAV solution, which means it is far from ideal. Apparently you either have to go through a browser or their own crappy software to access your files.
I want a good cheap webDAV server that will open a folder in Windows or OSX as if it was local or just another network share.
Oh, and with SSL authentication and session - charlief1975, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just don't trust my data to someone else.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3lol, Digg's been fleaced again. The future of journalism eh? Where a million lemmings run as fast as possible toward the next shiney thing regardless if it's real, reliable, safe or not and then chatter about it as if they're sudden experts.
- ddfall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.box.net/ Try box.net as someone suggested before and yes, if you refer 5 people you get an upgraded account. Hell, I'd put up my refferal link if it didn't have my e-mail address because I'd expect to get a ton of spam after that. No, I do not work for them nor do I make any money from then. They're on version 2.0 and I like them a lot. I'm not gonna sound like some damn'd advertisement but they do a good job.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Nice find! But isn't MediaMax the name of Sony's rootkit??
- WALZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you press the button next to his Name/Minutes Ago in the comments that will block him ( http://digg.com/links/1Gb_for_your_Online_Virtual_Drive#c1528972 ), and if enough people do it the person gets evaluated and possibly banned.
Or just click this, it does the same thing.
http://digg.com/userblock/198108 - Daychilde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@flip79 - so why did you spam us with your referral link?
- Daychilde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://digg.com/tos
"By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree not to use the Services:"
"7. to submit stories or comments linking to affiliate programs, multi-level marketing schemes, sites/blogs repurposing existing stories (source hops), or off-topic content;"
There's your answer.
It's in the terms of service. - johnie1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that's a wee bit naughty (:
- Dan100, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Again, it's worth pointing out that Mozy is a totally different service. They provide a back-up system, while the likes of omnidrive, orbitfiles and box.net are online file-stores so you can access your documents from any internet-connected computer.
- Dan100, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This isn't a back-up service.
- ThinkFr33ly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll stick with my 2.64 GB Roamdrive on Gmail account. :)
- streetblader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ive been using omnidrive for a few weeks now and love it!
- haochi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mozy is prefer as a backup plan.
- Dan100, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Boondoggle - look at Omnidrive.com.
I looked at a few options recently: http://dan100.blogspot.com/2006/04/foldersharecom-online-file-sharing-and.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21024 megs is actually a gigabyte. so your off a little
- fatalea1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow this seems like a great server just look at that most recent blog post:
Hello everyone,
Orbitfiles.com was one of the most popular sites at Digg.com this sunday and as a result traffic was way too much, many of you certainly experience some downtimes since servers were overloaded.
We are working hard to implement some of the great futures suggested by users, we will keep you updated on that. Andrey and his team are doing great job!
Have a great week ahead!
See Orbitfiles.com Blog (Apr. 23, 2006) available at http://orbitfiles.wordpress.com.
Oh and two out of the four posts on their blog have been in regards to system overloads. - GeneralSun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ugh, this is not only old, but stupid. There's a bizillion services like this all over the net, just google free file storage.
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh if that's all, let me just go and hand you my primary email address, heck and while I am at it, here is my address so you can fill up my mailbox, oh and here let me give you my telephone number so you can call me during dinner and haggle me with crap I don't want and wouldn't buy over a phone if I did want it. I wouldn't want bad karma! ;)
- fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reported as spam.
- ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Y no use gmail!
- buddystream, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice work.
- skeet07, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1box.net + netvibes.com is music to my ears =)
- ddfall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reported as spam as well.
- perral1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I believe you mean:
https://mozy.com/
Although as someone pointed out the poster of this article did the same thing...
-Perral1 - Daychilde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google for "netdrive" - it is freeware, and allows you to map an FTP connection as a network drive in Windows. You can make multiple connections, too. It rocks.
I liked it so much that I purchased "webdrive", which is the non-freeware version. Advantage: Map a SSH connection as a drive... Even better...
I have my own server, so I have a little bit of space I set aside as a network drive via SSH. It's pretty nice. And I'm in control, so it's not like I'll go out of business and lose my own data... :D - dasil003, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If anyone is serious about network-based storage then I highly recommend Strongspace. No it's not free, but then again you get what you pay for. If you relying on a free service to keep your data safe then you better have your own backups too! Just look at the guy who lost his gmail. If you're paying at least you can have some expectation of service.
Besides, Strongspace gives you shell and rysnc access as well as the slickest web interface I've seen. -
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