Bogdan Pop : Web development , Photography , Dj

Yes, all of us have lost few, or lots of data, important data, whether it is a photo of a friend, a contract, a project’s presentation that you must do in 15 minutes and so on. Few months back, a friend of mine wanted to start back in my old town, Bistrita, a back-up service (though for digital photos only). He suggested a dedicated server located on the metropolitan area of the city, and a small website, where you get to sign up, upload, download, and know that your stuff is safe and sound.

Of course, it would be a payed service. At that time, I said no to his offer, as I didn’t see anyone doing a back-up like this. I mean, you have external hard-disks, CDs and so many other ways to protect yourself. Plus, the city ain’t that big, and most of the internet users are kids.

Few days ago, I have changed my mind when I found an online backup service that actually works. They have free accounts, and payed accounts too. Amazingly, for just under 5 pounds a month you get 50 Gb of back-up space. That is huge! And it is cheap.

I am currently backed up by Time Machine (as I am a Leopard user, no comments), and my servers (as I own a web hosting company). However, I do not offer such back-up services, and as per contracts, I do not allow my clients to store data other than websites (they cannot use more than 70% of the space for multimedia hosting, and some don’t like this). So, I guess I will check to see if BT has some affiliation system for their backup services, and if they do, I will sign up, and then recommend to all my customers to back-up multimedia files over there, as opposed to hosting accounts, which are, for hosting.

Company website: BT Group