After burglars stole all laptops and external hard disks from a friend, I decided I need some online backup space where to put my important photos. After quite some extensive research I settled for onlinestoragesolution.com which seems incredibly cheap for what they offer. 20$/year 30$ for 2 years with unlimited storage space and traffic!

Even more, they have a plentitude of ways to connect to:

• ftp, webdav, Windows netdrive (CIFS), rsync, SSH tunnels (apparently). WOW

Even after reading some reviews, both very positive and very negative, I decided to go for them. And things seem to work fine so far. Except for the fact that there is hardly any information as to how to setup the thing on their website. I was majorly puzzled until I found this user guide, which apparently belongs to them but is not linked from their website. So if you sign up with them, it will come in handy.

UPDATE: What sounded too good to be true, was probably too good to be my true. My access worked for one day, and then ceased working. Support has initially answered my mails but seems to now having stopped answering me.

I now signed up for http://memopal.com which also looked like a good online backup service as they offered access to the files via webdav. What they did not write in their frontpage was that this access is read-only and they are pondering to discard it completly. Which leaves the only access via some binary application that I cannot run on my ARM-based file server. Which makes memopal also useless. It seems I have to just use the amazon cloud services myself now :-(. I had hope to make my life somewhat easier though... :-(.