Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] mediamax?

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 4/3/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
>
> > Jonathan King wrote:
> >
> >> I think this has to be something to put in the "too good to be true"
> >> file:
> >>
> >> http://www.mediamax.com/
> >
> > Um... 1GB /month transfer.  It will take 25 months to fully utilize it
> > provided you don't choose to access the files once they are uploaded.
>
> I don't get it.  Is that really all they have to offer?  It looks like the
> reviewers missed that important point.  In a way, it is a scam:  You
> upload 1 GB of files, say, and think they are securely stored for free,
> which is true until you try to access a file and find out that you have
> exceeded your 1 GB monthly limit.  That is, you will have to pay to access
> your data.

True, but another piece of news here was that somebody was offering
remote hosting at costs that weren't completely  bizarre.

> Look at what these customers have to say:
>
> http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/5859
>
> That's pretty amazing.  It sounds like MediaMax has totally broken down.

Eeuw. The certainly seem to have had a crappy 2006, that's for sure.
In any case, we know that Google *could* do this right, so the fact
that they don't (yet) tells me that they haven't quite figured out how
they want to do it.

jking

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