Comments on: Another cloud storage provider enters the fray http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/ Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:55:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Joshua http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-771 Joshua Fri, 30 May 2008 16:13:13 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-771 I would love to see Google added to jungle disks options so long as the files are accessible from any browser. I would also be great if every file had a dedicated URL (especially pics and mp3) you could use to link to those files in your webpage. (maybe this exists, I haven't played around to much with the service.) I would love to see Google added to jungle disks options so long as the files are accessible from any browser. I would also be great if every file had a dedicated URL (especially pics and mp3) you could use to link to those files in your webpage. (maybe this exists, I haven’t played around to much with the service.)

]]> By: Ian Page http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-733 Ian Page Tue, 13 May 2008 19:15:11 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-733 I really don't care where the data stored as long as it's secure, multi-location and reliable... Couldn't give people a choice so you could choose between amazon, google or rackspace ? as long as they are using Jungle Disk. cheers I really don’t care where the data stored as long as it’s secure, multi-location and reliable… Couldn’t give people a choice so you could choose between amazon, google or rackspace ? as long as they are using Jungle Disk.

cheers

]]> By: Luke http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-709 Luke Thu, 08 May 2008 11:57:18 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-709 The Rackspace offering is highly appealing to me, although as a developer this is more in terms of a development platform rather than for backups. We host many servers with Rackspace at work, and the prospect of tapping into their cloud storage within our hosting environment is compelling. Interestingly, JD gets a mention on their beta signup page as a competitor! http://www.mosso.com/cloudfs/register.jsp The Rackspace offering is highly appealing to me, although as a developer this is more in terms of a development platform rather than for backups. We host many servers with Rackspace at work, and the prospect of tapping into their cloud storage within our hosting environment is compelling.

Interestingly, JD gets a mention on their beta signup page as a competitor! http://www.mosso.com/cloudfs/register.jsp

]]> By: Les Smith http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-708 Les Smith Thu, 08 May 2008 02:52:27 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-708 Rackspace is not reliable ... http://valleywag.com/347444/rackspace-goes-down-again-loses-tumblrs-business Breakdowns:Rackspace goes down again, loses Tumblr's business Microblogging service Tumblr went down for a few hours yesterday. The outage cost the world several hours of vintage pinup girls and ironic reblogging. And it cost managed hosting service Rackspace a customer. This morning, Tumblr founder David Karp said he planned to move the site to a new hosting services provider, blaming Rackspace for a "botched" firewall upgrade and decrying the "exorbitant price" his company paid for its services. It's been a bad last couple months for Rackspace. When Web-based collaboration software provider 37signals went down for a few hours on Friday morning, it too blamed Rackspace. Rackspace retorted that the problem was isolated to 37signals. How reassuring to know that Rackspace's finger-pointing services are available 24/7. Rackspace also went down in early December. And in November, a careening truck destroyed a power transformer, taking all of Rackspace's customers offline. But hey, before that, Rackspace was called the "most reliable" Web host in September 2007. Rackspace is not reliable …

http://valleywag.com/347444/rackspace-goes-down-again-loses-tumblrs-business

Breakdowns:Rackspace goes down again, loses Tumblr’s business

Microblogging service Tumblr went down for a few hours yesterday. The outage cost the world several hours of vintage pinup girls and ironic reblogging. And it cost managed hosting service Rackspace a customer.

This morning, Tumblr founder David Karp said he planned to move the site to a new hosting services provider, blaming Rackspace for a “botched” firewall upgrade and decrying the “exorbitant price” his company paid for its services.

It’s been a bad last couple months for Rackspace. When Web-based collaboration software provider 37signals went down for a few hours on Friday morning, it too blamed Rackspace. Rackspace retorted that the problem was isolated to 37signals. How reassuring to know that Rackspace’s finger-pointing services are available 24/7.

Rackspace also went down in early December. And in November, a careening truck destroyed a power transformer, taking all of Rackspace’s customers offline. But hey, before that, Rackspace was called the “most reliable” Web host in September 2007.

]]> By: Robert Accettura http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-703 Robert Accettura Wed, 07 May 2008 13:13:37 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-703 I would definitely consider RackSpace since they do have a great reputation for several years as those who keep up on the managed and unmanaged hosting business know. In particular it could be good for those of us who want cloud storage for making media accessible via the web. Amazon allows hosting via a CNAME, which is nice, but Amazon's upstream bandwidth prices aren't cheap. I would definitely consider RackSpace since they do have a great reputation for several years as those who keep up on the managed and unmanaged hosting business know.

In particular it could be good for those of us who want cloud storage for making media accessible via the web. Amazon allows hosting via a CNAME, which is nice, but Amazon’s upstream bandwidth prices aren’t cheap.

]]> By: Jim http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-702 Jim Wed, 07 May 2008 12:19:10 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-702 I would consider Google Storage / GDrive (supposing it ever arrives) as a second backup location. For JD I prefer Amazon. I would consider Google Storage / GDrive (supposing it ever arrives) as a second backup location. For JD I prefer Amazon.

]]> By: Hans http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-701 Hans Wed, 07 May 2008 10:51:58 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-701 "Automatic redundancy" is a term that was already mentioned. I second this and name the feature "Cloud-RAID": Would be great if JungleDisk could span data across numerous storage suppliers and thereby assure that it's always accessible, even if one of them is temporary down or loses your data completely in a worst case scenario! “Automatic redundancy” is a term that was already mentioned. I second this and name the feature “Cloud-RAID”: Would be great if JungleDisk could span data across numerous storage suppliers and thereby assure that it’s always accessible, even if one of them is temporary down or loses your data completely in a worst case scenario!

]]> By: Tim Read http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-700 Tim Read Wed, 07 May 2008 09:49:31 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-700 Another vote for Amazon. My only concern with Amazon is that perhaps this is not their core business in the same way it is for other companies, and that one day their services may be neglected or sold. But I guess you provide a layer of abstraction that would make switching easier ! But for now I'm very happy with Amazon. Another vote for Amazon. My only concern with Amazon is that perhaps this is not their core business in the same way it is for other companies, and that one day their services may be neglected or sold.

But I guess you provide a layer of abstraction that would make switching easier !

But for now I’m very happy with Amazon.

]]> By: Anandha http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-697 Anandha Tue, 06 May 2008 23:41:20 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-697 I use Mozy to backup my music and pics - amazon would be too expensive to backup all my music and pics (130GB and growing).. if there was an alternate backup solution that offered unlimited but was more reliable and had better customer service than mozy, i'd switch in a heartbeat. I use Mozy to backup my music and pics - amazon would be too expensive to backup all my music and pics (130GB and growing).. if there was an alternate backup solution that offered unlimited but was more reliable and had better customer service than mozy, i’d switch in a heartbeat.

]]> By: cla http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-696 cla Tue, 06 May 2008 23:21:29 +0000 http://blog.jungledisk.com/2008/05/06/another-cloud-storage-provider-enters-the-fray/#comment-696 On the press release linked by the blog is stated that the price will be 0.15$/gigabyte (the same of amazon). But I browsed into rackspace website and I found the following paragraph, that I think may be interesting: "Finally, Rackspace only charges for outbound bandwidth, meaning that routine site maintenance, such as content publishing and uploads, are not counted against your bandwidth allocation." (last paragraph of http://www.rackspace.com/whyrackspace/network/bandwidthbilling.php ) So, if that would apply to their cloud, would mean free data upload, that would result into an excellent deal (and in a breakup of consumer-level bandwidth billing model) IMO. I'll wait for that service. Apart that, if tehy would host that in Europe at the same price of US I would switch from Amazon (better privacy laws there). Well, I'm going to sign up to JD right now :) On the press release linked by the blog is stated that the price will be 0.15$/gigabyte (the same of amazon).

But I browsed into rackspace website and I found the following paragraph, that I think may be interesting:
“Finally, Rackspace only charges for outbound bandwidth, meaning that routine site maintenance, such as content publishing and uploads, are not counted against your bandwidth allocation.”
(last paragraph of http://www.rackspace.com/whyrackspace/network/bandwidthbilling.php )

So, if that would apply to their cloud, would mean free data upload, that would result into an excellent deal (and in a breakup of consumer-level bandwidth billing model) IMO.

I’ll wait for that service.

Apart that, if tehy would host that in Europe at the same price of US I would switch from Amazon (better privacy laws there). Well, I’m going to sign up to JD right now :)

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