If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
Like your dad, mine taught me that life truth at an early age. While I tested it several times growing up what dad taught me turned out to be true again and again. Here are a few that I ran into that you might relate to ranked by age for me:
– 12 Albums/Tape for .99
– Free Stamp/Coin Proofs
– Any sign-up for Free Vacation/Car/$1mil/etc
– Sign-up for Free for 30 days, just cancel (victim of this one X times)
I would challenge anyone looking for a cloud backup service to do testing of that service. Don’t give your credit card information to try the free service. Test it to see if it is really free. Ask questions of others (Search, Blog, Testimony, etc) for their experience. Think about it, if you are loading data to a provider where the volume exceeds the raw cost of the storage then what your dad taught you MAY come into play.
From my research, understanding being in the industry and talking with customers of many of the providers (also testing myself) there are ways that many providers limit those that “take advantage of the system”; AKA using more than they are paying for. The most common practices they limit the volume of uploaded data allowed per day (i.e. 100mb per day – less than 10 photos with digital most cameras). Another common practice is “expiring old files”. This can be as little as 90 days. I personally take digital photos that I load on my PC, edit and backup for storage FOREVER. It is NOT OK with me for files to be deleted EVER much less in such a short time.
We added a customer that tried several of the popular services without success. The primary reason what service and support. When we talked with them about the above issues they admitted that they had seen both techniques with in the first month of us. This is much faster that I had experienced, so I am creating new accounts of my own and trying again.
Lastly, I have another Truth about backup:
“We manage our customer’s backups, other services manage credit cards.”
In other words, their customers won’t hear from them unless the credit card doesn’t work. Our customers hear from us when there is an issue.
We look forward to helping you.
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Mirrored Storage provides cloud backup, cloud storage and a full range of Information Technology services to businesses in Dallas, Fort Worth and surrounding area.
By John Neibel | mirroredstorage.com
