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Cheap online storage revisited

October 31, 2006 in Backup, Hosting

Here’s some of articles regarding cheap online storage options for backup purposes.

  • Eirik Solheims article here made me take a closer look on offline backup solutions for the home user.
  • This article talks about using Amazon S3‘s cheap storage service for backup. Theres some hints here that the insanely cheap web hoster Dreamhost can be used for the storage bit by some of the tools.
  • This article talks about backup tools to use as backup software with Amazon S3

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WP-Websnapr

October 27, 2006 in Blogg, Wordpress

WP-Websnapr allows visitors to preview your post’s linked websites by using Websnapr’s service.

Characteristics

  • Ignore local, mailto and ftp links.
  • Ignore links that point to zip, exe, rar, swf, mp3, wav, mid, avi, mov, mpg, mpeg, wmv, pdf, doc, ppt, xls, jpeg, gif, png files.

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Cheap online storage with Amazon

October 25, 2006 in Backup, Hosting, Linux

Amason now offers cheap online storage with Amazon S3. Jeremy D. Zawodny has written an article comparing the cost of using Amazon S3 with having a PC based sollution at home.

I also notice that Dreamhost now offers 200 GB of storage for just 7,95$ per month. This makes this another atractive offering.

“In other words, switching to S3 could save me $587 over five years! “

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SIPBox and Asterisk lower phone costs for children’s agency

October 25, 2006 in Linux, VOIP

ECHO Joint Agency established a SIPBox VOIP server to lover the cost of telephony in the agency.

ECHO issued a request for proposals last year to find a new phone system that would be easier on its budget. Scaletta quickly found that recent technological advances promised to bring big savings, and big changes, to ECHO. “It wasn’t necessary for it to be [voice over IP], but that’s what everybody came in with,” Scaletta says. “The phone companies felt that we could save some money with that but still get a good product. SIPBox is the one that came back with the lowest bid.”

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