Comments on: Extending Free Accounts http://blog.backupify.com/2010/02/02/extending-free-accounts/ The blog for Backupify Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:35:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lone0001's Blog » Backing up http://blog.backupify.com/2010/02/02/extending-free-accounts/comment-page-1/#comment-1156 Lone0001's Blog » Backing up Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:07:48 +0000 http://blog.backupify.com/?p=603#comment-1156 [...] plus many more! If you should read this article before February the 15th you can get an account for free! Should you have any concerns you can read their FAQ found [...] [...] plus many more! If you should read this article before February the 15th you can get an account for free! Should you have any concerns you can read their FAQ found [...]

]]> By: Mistygirlph http://blog.backupify.com/2010/02/02/extending-free-accounts/comment-page-1/#comment-1154 Mistygirlph Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:45:25 +0000 http://blog.backupify.com/?p=603#comment-1154 Hi guys, maybe you can check out my article on your service, people are interested and have been trying to contact your office. But seems no one is answering. Maybe you can look into it. Thanks :) here is a link to the article and some feedbacks from readers. <a href="http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/how-to-secure-your-online-info/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/how-to-secure-you...</a> Hi guys, maybe you can check out my article on your service, people are interested and have been trying to contact your office. But seems no one is answering. Maybe you can look into it. Thanks :) here is a link to the article and some feedbacks from readers. http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/how-to-secure-you...

]]> By: Thomas Powell http://blog.backupify.com/2010/02/02/extending-free-accounts/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 Thomas Powell Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:48:12 +0000 http://blog.backupify.com/?p=603#comment-1126 I would imagine the value of the tiers really depends on what services are offered. I've personally been looking for some nice canned extraction/translation out of the backup. Beyond backup alone, there is the need for portability whenever a service becomes unreliable. If I could seamlessly move from one online to-do list to another without noticing much difference, or export my data to a clean Google Doc or Office doc format, that could be huge. I would imagine the value of the tiers really depends on what services are offered. I’ve personally been looking for some nice canned extraction/translation out of the backup. Beyond backup alone, there is the need for portability whenever a service becomes unreliable. If I could seamlessly move from one online to-do list to another without noticing much difference, or export my data to a clean Google Doc or Office doc format, that could be huge.

]]> By: Alexander Gieg http://blog.backupify.com/2010/02/02/extending-free-accounts/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 Alexander Gieg Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:59:33 +0000 http://blog.backupify.com/?p=603#comment-1022 I'm an early adopter who purchased your backup service linked to my own S3 account for $9.95, which I felt was a fair price, specially given I were to pay for storage myself. When I saw on the "choose a plan" page a few weeks ago that it was scheduled to renew on 2010-06-26 for $19.95, twice as much, that already gave me pause. I've been thinking since then whether it's worth to keep or not. Now you decide to more than double the price again, to $49? Five times more than my original subscription? Sorry, but that's too much. If this happens I'll cancel any paid subscription and will go with the free service, if that much. Having backups of social sites is, for me at least, a convenience, not a need. Besides, the most demanding services I have backed up is Gmail, whose storage, 4GB, let me say again, I pay myself, as it goes all into my own S3 account (4GB x $0.15/GB/month x 12 months = $7.20/year). This is quite easy to do locally, with Thunderbird downloading Gmail directly plus some of the many, many S3-based backup solutions available, both free and (cheaply) paid. Revise these new prices. Have the first premium tier at <i>most</i> on the $20 price point ($10 with self-owned storage), a second premium tier at <i>most</i> on the $30 price point ($20 with self-owned storage), and the whole deal makes sense. Anything beyond that is, simply put, nonsensical. I’m an early adopter who purchased your backup service linked to my own S3 account for $9.95, which I felt was a fair price, specially given I were to pay for storage myself.

When I saw on the “choose a plan” page a few weeks ago that it was scheduled to renew on 2010-06-26 for $19.95, twice as much, that already gave me pause. I’ve been thinking since then whether it’s worth to keep or not.

Now you decide to more than double the price again, to $49? Five times more than my original subscription? Sorry, but that’s too much. If this happens I’ll cancel any paid subscription and will go with the free service, if that much. Having backups of social sites is, for me at least, a convenience, not a need.

Besides, the most demanding services I have backed up is Gmail, whose storage, 4GB, let me say again, I pay myself, as it goes all into my own S3 account (4GB x $0.15/GB/month x 12 months = $7.20/year). This is quite easy to do locally, with Thunderbird downloading Gmail directly plus some of the many, many S3-based backup solutions available, both free and (cheaply) paid.

Revise these new prices. Have the first premium tier at most on the $20 price point ($10 with self-owned storage), a second premium tier at most on the $30 price point ($20 with self-owned storage), and the whole deal makes sense.

Anything beyond that is, simply put, nonsensical.

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