Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] mediamax?

["Vern Green" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> > > 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.

 

I am not sure it works this way, but if it does then their site is misleading. For instance everywhere on the site it says the monthly DOWNLOAD limit is 1 gigabyte. Now this to me would mean that uploading does not count against your total. Which would make sense because you would not want to have a situation where people were doing warez and soaking up the bandwidth on the site.

 

They also have a file size limit. On the free version, the largest file you can download is 10MB. Now maybe they will let you upload a file larger than that, but then not let you download the file unless you pay for an upgrade. That would certainly be a way to coax more business out of your customers and I could see a company doing something like that.

You know though, I would pay the $4.95 per month to have that kind of storage. I paid almost that per month for my image hosting company that later for shutdown. I have Picasa now, but Picasa as far as I know will not let you do non-image type files as well. I have been using my Gmail account for backing up those important documents that I do not want to risk losing.

 

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