This review is sponsored by one of our readers.
Before the Internet and PC age, I can remember when people earning Ph.D.’s would have to write the future footnotes of their dissertations on index cards and file them away in a shoebox. Because their future employment hinged on keeping their studies safe, they’d hide the shoebox in the refrigerator. Why was that? They believed that in the even of a fire, a refrigerator would allow their notes to survive intact!
It’s humorous to think about those days now that we have computers.
Write notes on index cards? By hand? Insane!
Keep them in a shoebox in the refrigerator? Even more insane!
But I’ll bet that it would be easier TODAY to lose data than for those Ph.D. students! Why? My wife lost a significant amount of data due to a power surge on what we thought was a “protected” computer!
And the consequences are still the same: lost data = lost time, lost information, and lost money probably more today than at any other time in human history!
Though saving data at your location is - theoretically - quite easy you probably aren’t doing it. And even if you ARE doing it, can it be stolen or destroyed? And if you DO back it up, wil the format you save it on TODAY be usable when you need it? Remember when we were backing things up on 1.4 Mg diskettes?
These problems make do it yourself back up plans problematic.
And these problems are what make DataDepositBox.com look so good!
1. You get a free 14 day trial to make sure you absolutely love the service.
2. After your 14 day free trial, you pay only $2 per GIG per month…it’s pay as you go.
3. It’s totally remote, safe, and automatic. It saves new files whenever they change and never interrupt your work!
4. It’s the same encryption *banks* use.
5. Back up as many computers as you want - you pay per total amount stored, not per computer or per user.
6. Restore lost files from your secure online file backup system in a matter of seconds.
7. Share select files or folders with whoever you want by emailing secure, password protected links!
8. Works on any PC with a web connection!
It’s sad to think that the Ph.D. student storing index cards in the fridge had a smarter, safer, and more effective data protection plan that today’s average home busines or small business person. But it’s true.
That’s why you should check out DataDepositBox.com!
karen on December 11th, 2006 at 5:20 am
If I am unable to post, then why is this form for?