{"id":4632,"date":"2012-06-14T02:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4632"},"modified":"2012-06-14T02:56:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T07:56:02","slug":"cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-for-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4632","title":{"rendered":"Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device. We&#8217;ve collected some details on the most popular services, including Google Drive, to compare them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2012\/04\/cloud-storage-a-pricing-and-feature-guide-for-consumers\/\">Cloud storage: a pricing and feature guide for consumers | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally post images here but this chart makes for a quick reference.\u00a0 The linked to article has much more details and worth a read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cloud_price-4f99f3c-intro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4635\" title=\"cloud_price-4f99f3c-intro\" src=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cloud_price-4f99f3c-intro.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cloud_price-4f99f3c-intro.png 640w, http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cloud_price-4f99f3c-intro-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/cloud_price-4f99f3c-intro-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What intrigued me about this is the max file size.\u00a0 This is probably set to keep people from building their own file containers (i.e. tar, zip, etc.) &#8212; which is what I hoped to do.\u00a0 Dropbox allows for a max file size of 300MB, ICloud 25MB.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 By building your own file containers gives you more local control over security of said files by allowing you to use your own encryption.\u00a0 300MB seems suitable for even rather large databases.\u00a0 Apps will have to be more frugal with a 25MB limit.\u00a0 I need to start using my Dropbox account.\u00a0 Will report more on this later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud storage services are cropping up left and right, all enticing their customers with a few gigabytes of storage that sync seemingly anywhere, with any device. We&#8217;ve collected some details on the most popular services, including Google Drive, to compare &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[67,384,365,107],"class_list":["post-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storage","tag-cloud-computing","tag-cloud-provider","tag-dropbox","tag-reference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4634,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions\/4634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}