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I'm a little ashamed to say that this is the first time the shutting down of a service almost brings me to tears. A couple months ago, burglars entered my house

I'm a little ashamed to say that this is the first time the shutting down of a service almost brings me to tears. A couple months ago, burglars entered my house and stoled --among other valuable stuff-- our laptops (wife's and mine) our cameras and with them a lot of pictures from our first year married. While I was able to recover some from iCloud and Dropbox and instagram, my wife was crying hopelessly for the lost of her photos. The truth is, handling photos and backups is hard and time consuming. I was so happy when I started using Everpix just last month. I was so sure that I will never have to worry about backups and storage and that my photos would be always safe. Naive, I know, but I wanted to believe. Have they charged me $20 a month, I would have been more than happy to pay.

esusatyo 13y ago
Truth is, there aren't as many people like you and me who would pay $20 a month to Everpix. So many people are just not worried about their data until something bad happens to them. I kept telling every single friend every time I see them post data loss grief status update on Facebook - use Dropbox, use CrashPlan, use iCloud, etc etc. And yet it seems like they either think that their data is not worth $5 a month, or that once accident happens to them it can't happen for the second time. What the world really needs is an education of how important it is to backup our data.
- basch 13y ago
  Bitcasa is 100 dollars a year for unlimited data. By comparison 20 dollars a month is expensive, even if it is a great service.
- jonny_eh 13y ago
  Right, people only value their data once it's gone. Here's an idea: free and seamless backing up of your data, but if you want to access it in the case of loss, you pay through the nose.
  - alandarev 13y ago
    Ha, that is an excellent idea :)
mrjatx 13y ago
I've lost years of pictures twice now by relying on image hosting sites that eventually shut down. First was Lightbox7, the last I THOUGHT was Photobucket but that appears to be online so I'm not sure which that was. Both times it was infuriating and I don't recall ever receiving any warning when Lightbox7 went dark. Lost all of my high school/middle school pictures (I'm 30 now, this was a long time ago). I'd warn you to not rely on any startup and to make sure your data, if its critical, is dispersed between different services, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Sky Drive. I've not used it yet, but you can sync files between cloud services via CloudHQ; https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox
uptown 13y ago
Check out CrashPlan for backup. You can either pay them to store your data in their cloud, or backup to an alternate computer/location for free using their sync software. It's great, and cost-effective peace of mind. It does nothing to make your photos easily accessible for browsing purposes - but knowing you've got a copy of your photos in an alternate location is probably more-important.
ukd1 13y ago
Checkout Loom - https://loom.com https://loom.com
- oceanic 13y ago
  How likely is it that Loom will go out of business in a year too?
  - vinceguidry 13y ago
    If you have to ask, then you're probably better off rolling your own service with S3. Amazon's not going away anytime soon.
jonkelly 13y ago
Family photos are the only items I don't think should be stored on the cloud as they are too important and too large. About a year ago I bought 2 external drives and we back up our MacBook at home and in another location. You can get 2 multi-terabyte drives for a little over $200. Sounds like a lot more trouble than it is and provides a great sense of security that our pix are secure.
gexla 13y ago
Consider this, the service probably would have been killed off one way or another. If it didn't die from a lack of funds, then it may have died from being shut down after being acquired. I was pretty happy with clipboard.com for bookmarks. They didn't charge anything. The service got shut down after Salesforce gobbled them up.

esusatyo 13y ago

Truth is, there aren't as many people like you and me who would pay $20 a month to Everpix. So many people are just not worried about their data until something bad happens to them. I kept telling every single friend every time I see them post data loss grief status update on Facebook - use Dropbox, use CrashPlan, use iCloud, etc etc. And yet it seems like they either think that their data is not worth $5 a month, or that once accident happens to them it can't happen for the second time. What the world really needs is an education of how important it is to backup our data.

basch 13y ago
Bitcasa is 100 dollars a year for unlimited data. By comparison 20 dollars a month is expensive, even if it is a great service.
jonny_eh 13y ago
Right, people only value their data once it's gone. Here's an idea: free and seamless backing up of your data, but if you want to access it in the case of loss, you pay through the nose.
- alandarev 13y ago
  Ha, that is an excellent idea :)

mrjatx 13y ago

I've lost years of pictures twice now by relying on image hosting sites that eventually shut down. First was Lightbox7, the last I THOUGHT was Photobucket but that appears to be online so I'm not sure which that was. Both times it was infuriating and I don't recall ever receiving any warning when Lightbox7 went dark. Lost all of my high school/middle school pictures (I'm 30 now, this was a long time ago). I'd warn you to not rely on any startup and to make sure your data, if its critical, is dispersed between different services, such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Sky Drive. I've not used it yet, but you can sync files between cloud services via CloudHQ; https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox

uptown 13y ago

Check out CrashPlan for backup. You can either pay them to store your data in their cloud, or backup to an alternate computer/location for free using their sync software. It's great, and cost-effective peace of mind. It does nothing to make your photos easily accessible for browsing purposes - but knowing you've got a copy of your photos in an alternate location is probably more-important.

ukd1 13y ago

Checkout Loom - https://loom.com https://loom.com

oceanic 13y ago
How likely is it that Loom will go out of business in a year too?
- vinceguidry 13y ago
  If you have to ask, then you're probably better off rolling your own service with S3. Amazon's not going away anytime soon.

jonkelly 13y ago

Family photos are the only items I don't think should be stored on the cloud as they are too important and too large. About a year ago I bought 2 external drives and we back up our MacBook at home and in another location. You can get 2 multi-terabyte drives for a little over $200. Sounds like a lot more trouble than it is and provides a great sense of security that our pix are secure.

gexla 13y ago

Consider this, the service probably would have been killed off one way or another. If it didn't die from a lack of funds, then it may have died from being shut down after being acquired. I was pretty happy with clipboard.com for bookmarks. They didn't charge anything. The service got shut down after Salesforce gobbled them up.