gpjt Posted May 11, 2013 Report Share Posted May 11, 2013 I've set up a server for myself as a central point for synchronisation. Most of the time, it's only a backup, but I have different machines that are on and off at different times, so it helps to have somewhere to sync to that's guaranteed always-on.The problem is, hosting companies charge lots for disk space. Backupsy is the best I've found, at $10/mo for 250Gb, a bit less than half the cost of using Dropbox -- but it's still pricey.Does anyone know of anything cheaper? Amazon S3 is about 1c/mo/Gb (plus bandwidth charges etc) so presumably there's room for people to drive the price down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disappointed Cat Posted May 11, 2013 Report Share Posted May 11, 2013 Actually this could be a great business idea if BTSync will spread like wildfire.Take a few dedicated servers or VPS in a cloud, set up btsync instances with webUI on different ports.Marketing, sell, profit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Automatic Coding Posted May 11, 2013 Report Share Posted May 11, 2013 Some recently posted here a site that was like $4/250GB up to 3TB. Look through my posts, I posted on the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Automatic Coding Posted May 11, 2013 Report Share Posted May 11, 2013 EDIT:-http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/18076-cloud-syncing/There was another thread with a better deal, but, I can't find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disappointed Cat Posted May 11, 2013 Report Share Posted May 11, 2013 Backupsy seems like a really good deal. But it has a terrible bandwith to Central Europe (i.e. Hungary). I could only get 160 KB/s over HTTP which is still a little bit better than Dropbox but it's all the way on the east coast while backupsy is in Illinois.For me one of the main reasons for changing to BTSync was the bandwith - I can get better speeds from my home server than any major cloud storage provider. Except Google, they have a server farm in my country, but GDrive is just terrible.It's still a very good backup solution. But I'd prefer something in Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawyer007 Posted May 12, 2013 Report Share Posted May 12, 2013 why not just get a nas device then and plug it in your router? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disappointed Cat Posted May 12, 2013 Report Share Posted May 12, 2013 Because it's the same location. Why? For power and internet outages and God forbid something should happen to the house. The extra bandwith is also worth mentioning. Of course I'm not working with mission critical data so this would just be a little extra, not a must have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogledi Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Did someone try btsync.com? there is others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Did someone try btsync.com? there is others? There are others - see this post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogledi Posted September 29, 2014 Report Share Posted September 29, 2014 Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddhead Posted October 1, 2014 Report Share Posted October 1, 2014 For about $80 (excluding the hard drive and power supply) I built a small low power fanless NAS and set it up at my mother's house. It only costs about $20 a year in electricity and has plenty of room for 3.5" hard drives. No worries about someone snooping on my data. Just another option to consider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spacemarine Posted October 2, 2014 Report Share Posted October 2, 2014 For about $80 (excluding the hard drive and power supply) I built a small low power fanless NAS and set it up at my mother's house Transfer speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drego85 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 I use a dedicated server, I have the complete management of my data and the prices are very low thanks to OVH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heehee62 Posted October 6, 2014 Report Share Posted October 6, 2014 I've got a 2 TB mybooklive in my sister's house. If you buy off ebay, you can get them new even for $80, used $60 though I hear some do break down (slower speed) after a little while but one at my house has been working for 3 years now. I don't really notice speed since I don't care. But I would think it'd be dependent on the upload speeds your internet service provider gives you unless it's super fast (don't quote me, I'm not an expert). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinabroad Posted October 8, 2014 Report Share Posted October 8, 2014 Using your families computers is definitely the way to go. I am in China and my father is in the UK. he has a backup of all my photos by BTSync so he gets the benefit of seeing the family grow and I have an off line, out of the country safe backup whenever I need it. Bandwidth is not really a problem as it is a backup - his computer is on in the day and mine is on all the time, but by using dropbox as MY central point for photos (I have 50Gb free somehow) we get to share automatically all my photos taken from different phones tablets and camera. It doesn't really matter how long it takes to transfer the photos, but it is pretty quick - and we both have unmetered connections so no additional transfer costs. I am pretty sure this would work for a lot of people at pretty much zero cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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