Upload is slow. From web interface it's around 300KB/s at the moment for me. Just for fun tried out Mega and it's 4MB/s-7MB/s there.
100 time cheaper dropbox like service
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#42Just tried to sign up for the 10TB plan, figure it's a good price for backing up my archive of DNG photographs, which is about 1TB. Not going well so far, credit card form was in french... Said it failed, it refreshed itself, says it's worked, but it isn't showing up on my account. Something tells me that 10 euros is going to cost a hell of a lot more than that of my time getting to the bottom of this.
I like OVH and everything, even if I don't host with them anymore.
However I tried this service a few months ago, and it was very unreliable and slow to sync files. Sharing files between different people in particular was quite a hassle, which is why i quit using it. Also, I had a lot of trouble with the Linux client. It may get better with time though as the project was only started in 2013 i believe.
It's good to have cheap alternatives but if you can pay for Dropbox there's just no comparison in the products.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
"They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive" Have you ever dealt with their support? - I for myself am quite happy with my service (Dedicated server) so far (because I rarely had to deal with the support) but I've heard a few horror stories where some of their biggest UK customers basically got kicked out even though they stayed within the TOS and the terms they signed the contract for, o…
Do you have links to these "stories"?
Not exactly what dewey was referring to, but for example they unilaterally cancelled their VoIP service to a large part of their customers in Europe, without any kind of explanation.
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#44Only restricted time for sharing ?
Or is an add-on planed for permanent shares (e.g. for companies)?
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#45OVH (english website [1]) is the best French hosting company and one of the best French domain name registar (with Gandi [2]), and are starting to make themselves a name outside of France. Hubic is the "cloud" offer from OVH. They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive, and have very fair prices (they are like the hosting counterparts of Free [3], a French ISP that drove subscription fees…
"They both have quite a reputation of being reliable and very responsive" Have you ever dealt with their support? - I for myself am quite happy with my service (Dedicated server) so far (because I rarely had to deal with the support) but I've heard a few horror stories where some of their biggest UK customers basically got kicked out even though they stayed within the TOS and the terms they signed the contract for, o…
Their support by email / Internet is just nonexistent: I've never had any reply to the many messages I've sent this way. The support by phone requires you to wait about ~20 minutes until someone takes your call, but then, it's very efficient (in my case, at least).
I'm very happy I almost never have any problem with OVH (I've two DSL connections with included Hubic accounts and a few web hosting with included domain names), because the support is not great at all.
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#46Pretty happy with Crashplan but I might sign up for this also just to have some storage I can access via an API. Crashplan only works with their client and their client isn't exactly lightweight to leave running 24/7.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have links to these "stories"?
Not exactly what dewey was referring to, but for example they unilaterally cancelled their VoIP service to a large part of their customers in Europe, without any kind of explanation.
From what i read, they said that they didn't get enough customers and revenue to justify it's existence - what other reason should there be?
And it was not sudden, they informed customers 3 months in advance.
I've been with 3 swedish voip providers that shut down after a couple of years, so i'd guess it's hard to make it work.
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#48> I confirm having read and fully understood the hubiC General COnditions
> PDF en français
Luckily, Google Translate provides mostly readable results, but if they present site in English they really should consider translating ToS too.
Although I was unable to share direct link (Google rejects to translate PDF from URL, only by direct upload), and the result not peeep.us-able, I was able to save it as a paste here to save others time downloading and uploading the PDF: http://dabblet.com/gist/8861421 (Dabblet seems broken, too, "view full page result" fails, so click "result" tab to get rid of unnecessary panes)
Some points I got(but may have misunderstood) from there:
- There're 10Mbps up/down bandwidth limits.
- You remain the sole owner of your data.
- Not allowed to store and/or share ("stocker et/ou partager") porn (huh‽) and some other kind of content considered indecent, disturbing or unlawful.
- They're not responsible for failed transfers, you explicitly agree have to check that the files succesfully uploaded by yourself.
- Commercial use of service is prohibited (uh... only personal accounts?)
- I didn't really get this part: "Le Client s'engage à régler directement à l'auteur de la réclamation toute somme que celui ci exigerait d’OVH." but Google says it translates to something like "The Customer agrees to pay directly to the author of the claim any amount that it would require OVH." From the context, I may guess the meaning is, that if you somehow caused some damage, you're going to protect OVH in court and if you/they're held responsible, you're going to pay those damages. Hmmm...
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#49> I confirm having read and fully understood the hubiC General COnditions > PDF en français Luckily, Google Translate provides mostly readable results, but if they present site in English they really should consider translating ToS too. Although I was unable to share direct link (Google rejects to translate PDF from URL, only by direct upload), and the result not peeep.us-able, I was able to save it as a paste here t…
Not sure if that will help, but here's my understanding:
"Le Client s'engage à régler directement à l'auteur de la réclamation toute somme que celui ci exigerait d’OVH." If an author ask compensation to OVH, you (OVH Client) pay the author directly the wanted amount.
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#50> I confirm having read and fully understood the hubiC General COnditions > PDF en français Luckily, Google Translate provides mostly readable results, but if they present site in English they really should consider translating ToS too. Although I was unable to share direct link (Google rejects to translate PDF from URL, only by direct upload), and the result not peeep.us-able, I was able to save it as a paste here t…
Not sure if that will help, but here's my understanding: "Le Client s'engage à régler directement à l'auteur de la réclamation toute somme que celui ci exigerait d’OVH." If an author ask compensation to OVH, you (OVH Client) pay the author directly the wanted amount.
Ah, right. Thank you. Seems this part is about copyright violations. Sounds reasonable to me then.