Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] mediamax?

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I much prefer to pay 1and1 $10 a month to get 150gb, 15gb transfer, 4000 email with spam and virus filters, unlimited domains and subdomains, the ability to setup ftp accounts, 100 MySQL databases, and so very much more



Vern Green wrote:

> > 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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