Bingo!
I noticed the other day that the space left on the humble drive on my macbook is getter increasingly slim. Now down to 2GB I have no choice but to start pruning and looking for alternative means of keeping files hosted, secure and in order. I’ve been looking at the online storage space for over a year. Since Arrington posted an article on the online storage gang, which has grown by leaps and bounds and even includes the Amazon S3 service (though not particular suited itself to online storage there are many frontends that apply in this space). None of these have suited my needs - were either expensive or were heavily backup centric and inflexible or didn’t work with Mac.
Tonight, I happened to stumble on a new service from Joyent called “Bingo!” or BingoDisk and I’ve decided to take the jump. What they provide is simple:
Joyent’s new Bingo! on-line disk service gives you 100, 50 or 25 gigabytes of disk storage on Sun’s amazing X4500 platform with a generous serving of free bandwidth per month over WebDAV for a super-low price! You get one user account and the ability to serve files from a public folder (for images, podcasts, whatever). On top of this, you get a complimentary 5-user subscription to Connector, Joyent’s amazing group collaboration product.
I really like WebDav because what I really want is something that is disk-like that I can use to store files that are relatively small in size. I don’t intend to use this for photos or music at all (the network requirements for larger files are too much for my meager roadrunner connection to handle currently), but I do plan to keep a tightly organized set of of documents as well as other things (like app settings or other exported data). I have local backup disks that I use for all current backup at home and I’ve bumped up the process after being burned the first time (it was a while back but the memories of such events always remain fresh in my mind). I’m happy with Bingo tonight but I’ll keep posting on my experiences with them going forward. I hope that it remains a stable and reliable friend going forward.
I’d also like to say that I enjoy that their site is easy to use and straight forward. Not over done - just the goods, an easy signup process and even a way to demo the product. Nice. I should also point out that I signed up for the lowest package - 25GB at $49/yr.