Hundreds of Unused Gigs

That's right. In the past, whenever I needed a webhost to host yet another one of my domains, I'd research carefully all the various options and features provided by the webhosts, including storage, monthly bandwidth, number of virtual hosts, email addresses, aliases, ftp accounts, file managing features, databases, etc., trying to have as much as possible for the lowest price.

That's probably a reasonable approach, especially because in reality none of the webhosts have actually provided me with what I always needed.

Until now, that is. One of my friends happened to discover Servage.net, which may not be the least expensive of the thousands of options, but they provide an unparallelled storage. Starting at 360 GBytes, most people could upload their entire harddisk and, well, if they were like me, they'd probably replace the contents with Linux and hope someone at Servage was a jerk and accidentally installed the entire thing onto his own computer. Okay, I didn't actually go that far; besides, I had already ditched Windows and installed Ubuntu two years ago.

I did sign up for Servage.net, though, and Servage.net provides all of the features, I'm used to looking for. This time, however, I'm using virtually none of them. I don't need an infinite number of email or FTP accounts, virtual hosts, and what not, which ironically Servage.net does provide. I'd like to have unlimited bandwidth, and while 3,600 GBytes of bandwidth per month is infinite for all practical purposes, I'd actually have preferred more. It's the huge amount of web storage, and it's all mine, just mine.

In fact, it's so much mine that I won't even share it with anyone. I could put thousands of images, movie clips, and audio files up there and have them accessible from anywhere and--within reason--for anyone.

Instead, I'm using the web storage for backups. With that much storage, backup is a mere problem of upload bandwidth, and at about 1024 Kbps, most backups can be completed within an acceptable time frame.

That's right. I'm be uploading until my network cable catches fire and my Internet service provider sends his goons out to persuade me to put a lid on my network usage, and no one will ever see the files I'm uploading. Including me, hopefully.


Oh, and while you're signing up, remember to use coupon code CUST39765. That's mine, of course, and if you use that one, both you and I will have another 25 GBytes added to our accounts. And once you've signed up, watch your storage limit grow, because Servage.net adds several megabytes of storage to your account each day.