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Get a free 25GB Box account when signing up for Hojoki
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoSounds too good to be true... How long will it last before I have to start paying?
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoPC world reckons the Box account will always be free [1], and Hojoki says that there will always be a free plan [2]. [1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2018603/get-a-free-25gb-box-account-when-you-sign-up-for-hojoki.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/2018603/get-a-free-25gb-box-a... [2] http://hojoki.com/#plans http://hojoki.com/#plans
- indiecore 14y agoCan you only access the 25 GB Box account via the Hoijoki dash or is it just a regular Box account?
- prud 14y agoAfter signing up through Hojoki you have a regular Box account with 25GB for free as a starting point.
- aroberge 14y agoDid sign up ... and did NOT get 25GB - just the regular 5.
- GotAnyMegadeth 14y agoYou need to click on a link in Hojoki on the right once you've logged in, not on the link you see when you click to activate Box... I nearly fell for that.
- ruffyen 14y agoI got 50GB for signing up with my android a while back, and I haven't seen a bill yet.
- vilgax 14y agoBox.net runs this type of promotion regularly. I remember, I got 50GB free lifetime (till company survives) account by signing up using their iPad app.
- nicholassmith 14y agoSame here, I don't think I've used it much though.
- mistercow 14y agoIt doesn't really sound too good to be true to me. A file hosting service is able to buy large hard drives and then commoditize their space. A dollar currently buys about 20GB. So if one of these 25GB users decides to upgrade, then each month, they will pay the overhead for 10 new 25GB users (forever minus the cost of occasionally replacing old hard drives, bandwidth, etc.), or 40 new ordinary free 5GB users. Moreover, if somebody uses even 10GB, they're pretty well locked in to box.com. That's more than any competitor I know of gives with free accounts, so to switch, you'd be looking at paying, right off the bat, for service you haven't vetted yet. So while 25GB may feel generous, it's really only a one dollar loss leader, and the "catch" is built in to ordinary usage of the service.
- msh 14y agoThe big limitation is that each file can't have a size larger than 100 megabyte.
- spindritf 14y ago250MB. In this case at least, the maximum file size varies with your plan.
- mistercow 14y agoAnother big limitation is no Linux sync. Even if you don't currently have a Linux machine, do you really want your choices limited in the future by your file hosting service?
- spindritf 14y agoYour account at Box.com is available as a (secure) webDAV share. You can easily use it in Linux, in Nautilus it's just like any other remote resource.
- mistercow 14y agoWebDAV in Nautilus works very well, but it is by no means the same level of convenience as syncing a la box.com or Dropbox. I mean hell, I can mount an FTP server in Nautilus too, but I'm not going to trade my Dropbox for FTP.
- metastew 14y agoIs this like Google Wave? I watched the video in the tour page and I'm still not exactly clear what it is.
- indiecore 14y agoI just signed up and tried it out with some stuff. It's like a big mashup timeline of all your stuff along with some filters. So for example I connected my twitter and my github, so if I tweet (or someone tweets @me) it shows up there. Similarly if I commit stuff to github (or presumably if someone on my team commits stuff) it posts the commit message to me. It's pretty neat, might dig in a bit more later.
- JasonFruit 14y agoIt's not clear to me, either — which is also like Google Wave. I followed links to try to figure it out, but others may not have; why would a special-offer page not at least try to describe what the service is? Not smart marketing.