[nylug-talk] [SPAM warning] I found a cool hosting facility <$10/month gives you 500GB Online storage.

[David Rosenstrauch]

Brandorr wrote:
> I wouldn't consider my primary online email store "a backup". Nor
> would I consider my primary online data store "a backup". (Besides 15
> years of email takes up less than 20GB.. Old email, in addition to
> being scarce due to bitrot, also tends not to have large attachments.)
> 
> I think the deal is that they are trying to discourage people using
> the service as a system to backup other servers to. If you are using
> it as a primary fileserver, I see no issues

Doesn't matter if you see no issues; it matters if they do.

And according to their TOS, you are only supposed to use the account for 
primarily web hosting purposes.  (Their words, not mine.)  I'm not 
joking.  See: 
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/10/17/policy-clarification-personal-storage-back-ups/

They just sprung this "clarification" on everyone the other day and a 
lot of people (myself included) are pretty pissed.

DR