My hunt for a Data Storage Solution has been all but easy as I have looked everywhere from department stores, to electronic stores, to warehouses, even to online sites that claim they sell the best of the best, even though they have spam flashing up every two seconds from their site . This has been an informative process for me. I have learned quite a bit about each form of Data Backup Services and how it will affect my computer and information, I also learned how to shop around for Data Backup Services . I honestly am an idiot when it comes to the Internet, so when I wanted to start up a website I was obviously very lost, I had no clue where to start, someone told me to go to GoDaddy to purchase a domain, that confused me because I didn’t know what that was, then they said that I needed to code the page, I almost cried when I heard that! The idea of Xdrive to me is great, even on the limited free model things worked well and didn’t require much of me save for my files. 5GB is really small though for the things I intend to be using it for, however, for 10 bucks a month they have another option that gives you 50GB, which is obviously a lot, better. I honestly think that I will be switching over to a Mac once I get this entire situation figured and evened out .
I thought of using Apple’s Mac service as my Data Backup Services for some time now but I honestly have not had time to do anything besides work on what I have right now . I mean it is so expensive. So ridiculously expensive that it is hard to consider. Then it hit me, check out the free trial and see if it really is worth it. 10 gigs of space for 100 bucks a year is just a little (read: a lot) expensive, but in their defense I do get a sweet email account, a web gallery – which is exactly what I was looking. I can upload my pictures into an AWESOME looking gallery for my friends, family, hell the whole world to look at. I can use my computer essentially from anywhere with the Back to My Mac feature, back up with the rightly named Back Up. If I had the capability (which I don’t) I could create another website on my computer for all the world to see . Back to the web gallery – people can see it, people can order prints from, and what I think is absolutely the coolest thing about it is people can add their own pictures to it. Say I went on a vacation to Alaska, If I went with some other people and they took pictures as well, they can add their pictures to my gallery. This whole easy sharing of information that Mac brings is exactly what I was looking for in a Online Data Storage.
This is the second day in my journey to find a new Disaster Recovery– being a little on the cheep side I decided I would check out the options for online hosting of my files and potentially a website – think of that a website, my own “. Com”, how cool! I made a list of everything that I needed to get done and my first step is GoDaddy .The only reason I did this was because their ads are honestly hilarious, if I hadn’t seen them I would have never gone to such a horrible website to pull my business together .