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Backup/Sync services

Requirements:

  • support Linux
  • client side encryption (open source client code)
  • deduplication

Sync

Seafile

  • 2GB free
  • CNY 50 / 100GB per month
  • open source server code

Less secure compared to tarsnap:

  • use AES-128
  • the password to encryption key hash method is SHA1 with very high iteration number

Backup

Tarsnap

Price:

  • billed only based on actual usage
  • Storage:Storage300 picodollars / byte-month ($0.30 / GB-month)
  • Bandwidth:Bandwidth300 picodollars / byte ($0.30 / GB)

rsync.net

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Reviews of host providers

Mail forwarding

netbsd.se offers @pp.netbsd.se, @netbsd.nu and @bsd.nu for free. (One alias per user.) I have registered [email protected].

gmail.com offers forwarding too.

chi.mp offers free domain (and mail forwarding). I've registered [email protected] and [email protected].

There are other free email forwarding providers, but the mail addresses they privide are not nice.

about.me offers mail forwarding as [email protected] backed up by AOL. I've claimed [email protected] but I've not activated it. It's not mail forwarding, but you have pop access to AOL mail.

VPS

good reputation but usually out of stack

BuyVM

  • http://buyvm.net/
  • $15/year
  • 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
  • 15GB storage
  • 500GB/month data transfer
  • 1x IPv4 + 16x IPv6
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • /dev/net/tun is available by default, and all VPS support PPTP VPN.
  • Free DNS hosting
  • 5GB of free off-site backup space
  • Private IP for internal traffic
  • Offloaded MySQL for $0.99/month

tinyvz

  • http://tinyvz.com/
  • $15/yr
  • 128 MB Dedicated RAM/256 MB Burstable RAM
  • 10 GB Disk Space
  • 500 GB Transfer
  • TUN and FUSE enabled
  • product of ramhost.us

monthly plan

Front Range Hosting

IPXCore

VPSCorner

XFuse Solutions

IperWeb

  • http://ipweb.com
  • 192MB memory / 192MB vswap
  • 8GB storage
  • 512GB/month
  • €1.52/month ($1.99 approx) (Use LET20REC)

Reliable Hosting

Unmetered bandwidth

VPSCheap.net

Cheapest

ServerDragon

  • 32MB RAM
  • 32MB vSwap
  • 2GB Diskspace
  • 500GB Bandwidth
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 4 IPv6 Addresses
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • Coupon: SAVE299
  • $8/Year

Versatile IT

  • 128MB RAM
  • 128MB vSwap
  • 10GB Diskspace
  • 100GB Bandwidth
  • 100Mbit Port Speed
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • 1 IPv4 Address
  • 4 IPv6 Addresses
  • $10/Year

SharedHost

URPad

SemoWeb

Avante Hosting

ChicagoVPS

RamNode

Jolly Works Hosting Tiny One

  • Jolly Works Hosting
  • 128MB guaranteed/256MB burstable memory
  • 15GB RAID-1 protected storage
  • 500GB/month data transfer on 100Mbps
  • OpenVZ/SolusVM
  • $15/yr

HudsonValleyHost

large RAM

@ UGVPS

LiquidHost

ProviderService

hourly

Digital Ocean

Amazon micro instance

  • $0.02 per hour
  • free for data transfer in
  • for data transfer out $0.12 per GB (1GB free per month)
  • free monitoring provided at 5-minute frequency
  • 1 year free tier, 750 hours and 15GB bandwidth per month
  • http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

Free file hosting

strongspace:

  • 1GB for free
  • rsync support

All providers below support html5 multiple files upload and api.

ge.tt:

  • free 2GB space for registered users
  • 250MB space for anonymous accounts (You can get more space, just use multiple browsers or delete cookies. But anonymous files will expire in 30 days.)
  • python command line upload tool
  • begin downloading when uploading
  • download all files of one share in zip

4shared.com

  • file size limit: 2GB
  • space limit: 15GB
  • content will be deleted if not login in 180 days

4sync.com

  • 15 GB

bitcasa.com

  • 10 GB

Storage

Summary

For backup:

If less than 1GB, use strongspace's free plan.

More, use Amazon Glacier or sina vdisk/baidu pan.

For sharing:

  • Code: github/gist
  • Photots: flickr
  • Videos: Picasa
  • Other: baidu pan

providers

vdisk.weibo.com

  • CNY 10 per month (100GB)
  • file limit: 100MB (web) 1GB(client)
  • only share a single file (not folder)
  • read only after account expiration

http://pan.baidu.com/

  • CNY 50 per month (100GB)
  • file limit: 4GB
  • can share files and folders
  • read only after account expiration

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/

  • $0.01/GB per month
  • for archival purpose only

Reliable Hosting Services

Backupsy

simplywebhosting.com

  • $60/yr
  • 199 GB storage
  • 2TB/month data transfer
  • 512MB memory
  • Xen
  • CentOS x64 only

Use WHT0512 also give you $10 off one-time discount

buyvm storage

strongspace

  • freetaste plan: 1GB for free (need credit card info) 100MB (no credit card info)
  • rsync/sftp
  • api
  • $3.99 for 15GB/m.
  • Much cheaper than rsync.net, rsync.net $5.6/m.
  • And you get 2 month free for annal payment at strongspace.
  • Also support S3 like public file hosting.
  • Paid plan is not very attractive to me, since I can bought two ~10GB vps for $2 each.

Google Drive:

  • 5GB free
  • $2.49/25GB, $4.99/100GB, $9.99/200GB.
  • sync client for Windows/Mac OS X/Android, etc. And the Linux client is working in progress.
  • The price doubled simplywebhosting.com, but much more reliable.

Constant cloud storage:

  • $0.06/GB
  • Amazon-S3 REST compliant API
  • cheaper than Amazon S3

Google Cloud storage:

  • free for 5GB storage and up to 50GB bandwidth
  • $0.12/GB
  • not as cheap as S3 for backup storage.

Amazon S3:

  • $0.093/GB (reduced redundancy storage)
  • more expensive than Google drive

windowsazure:

  • $0.093 per GB (Locally Redundant)
  • same as Amazon S3, more expensive than Google drive.

HP Cloud

  • $0.12/GB
  • not as cheap as S3 for backup storage.

Rackspace cloud files:

  • $0.15/GB
  • not as cheap as S3 for backup storage.

Aliyun:

  • aliyun.com
  • CNY 0.6/GB (actually CNY 0.02/GB/day)
  • not as cheap as S3 but cheaper than Rackspace
  • fast in China

baidu:

  • developer.baidu.com
  • CNY 0.6GB (actually CNY 0.02/GB/day)
  • not as cheap as S3 but cheaper than Rackspace

grandcloud:

  • grandcloud.cn
  • CNY 1/GB
  • more expensive than aliyun
  • speed is not as good as aliyun in some networks (e.g. China unicom)

365ezone:

jollyworkshosting:

  • $50/yr for 200GB
  • free domain
  • support ftp/curl/cgi/php/perl
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Host photos on 23 and Flickr

23

23 is an open photo sharing site:

  • api available
  • store original photos
  • everyone can hot link different sizes of photos (including original ones) without registration
  • corporate with flattr and Creative Commons
  • free account can upload 30 photos per month, easier to calculate than XX MB/m
  • plus account can upload unlimited photos, and can downgrade to free account (keeping all uploaded photos)

flickr offers 1TB storage for photos:

  • api available
  • store original photos
  • hot link different sizes of photos

RAW

I backup/publish raw files in:

Host videos on picasa

Picasa provides unlimited storage for videos up to 15 min.

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