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Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

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Post by davidz »

ajkirwin wrote: post #7

Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your ba…

David with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

#12

Post by ajkirwin »

davidz wrote: post #11
ajkirwin wrote: post #7

Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your ba…

David with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)

So put in some kind of limits. I am EXTREMELY wary of using anything that doesn't define limits. As I can have the rug pulled out from under me.

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

#13

Post by inovica »

davidz wrote: post #11
ajkirwin wrote: post #7

Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your ba…

David with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)

Then you should look at whether you advertise it as "unlimited". It could look like mis-selling and I think the service looks good so you should possibly look at this

EDIT: I'd like to just say that I've downloaded and am using the app and its lovely. Really well done. Regarding the bandwidth usage, I think you should still be able to come up with something that is representative rather than what you are currently using. Hosting companies have done it for many years, so just come up with a bandwidth figure per Gb that you are happy with

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

#14

Post by RK »

Having already, accidentally overwhelmed my netbook's drive while using Dropbox, this does look interesting. My suggestion for Dropbox was the ability to designate some machines/directories as online only.

Unfortunately, Zumodrive doesn't have have Linux support right now...

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

#15

Post by ajkirwin »

davidz wrote: post #11
ajkirwin wrote: post #7

Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your ba…

David with ZumoDrive here. I hate bandwidth caps as much as you do. But without this provision, we won't have a way to stop the guy that's distributing pirated ISOs via the service. This is really so that we, and indirectly our users, don't have to continue to pay for that. Other than that, we have no intention from you using the service, so feel free to stream away :)

I mean, look at it like this. I have a bunch of legitamite but highly used content. I throw it up on this, knowing that amazon's s3 service can serve it far easier than I can.

And it uses one hell of a lot of gigabytes. Hundreds of 'em. A week.

Would this get me terminated?

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

#17

Post by shergill »

ajkirwin wrote: post #7

Gotta love it. "Unlimited storage!", they say. "Access your stuff anywhere!" Of course, you better not have TOO MUCH STUFF, or you'll run afoul of this tasty provision. General Conditions, 8. If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Company) of other customers of the Service, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account until you can reduce your ba…

unlimited = if you pay for it.

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

#18

Post by 1gor »

Can anyone enlighten me what's the difference between Zumodrive and JungleDisk? I've been using the later for a year. It creates a 'limitless' network drive on my MacBook with 1GB local cache (size can be increased), while synching with my Amazon S3 account in the background is almost not noticeable.

And by the way, JungleDisk simply passes Amazon S3 bandwidth/storage charges to me, no caps there; I can bypass it to access my data on S3 buckets; it is available for win/linux/mac etc.

Re: Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch (YC S07)

#19

Post by mechanical_fish »

old-gregg wrote: post #5

I'm not sure why I'm so eager to post something sarcastic, possibly including words like "sshfs" and "already" mixed up with nasty stuff like "many years ago". Am I a bad person or what? P.S. And seeing another person asking for "linux support" doesn't help me to fight my sarcasm.

The technology is rarely the big problem. The big problem is getting the client to stop calling you multiple times per week.

"How did you set up that sshfs thing again? I lost the FAQ you sent me."

"I was following your FAQ, but I did something wrong and now I can't find my files."

"I love that sshfs thing you set up for me; can you set it up for my ten friends? I'll pay you five bucks!"

I haven't used this new thing, but I do use Dropbox, which solves these problems by being gloriously boring. You set it up in less than one minute, with no docs required, and then it just sits there, working.

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