Best alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive.
Pay once and never worry about paying monthly fees again.
pCloud has been around 13 years, has 9 million users, is profitable and received $3M funding in 2015.
You also have option to pay onetime to upgrade to pCloud Crypto during signup:
https://www.pcloud.com/lifetime-crypto/
Pcloud news:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/16/dropbox-challenger-pcloud-…
Or sellout to some investment firm that rewrites the rules and tough if you don't like it.
"Lifetime Subscriptions
pCloud users can pay for a lifetime plan. A lifetime plan is in effect for the duration of the account owner or 99 years, whichever is shorter."
The business is going to take all the money, pay themselves excessive bonuses, and declare bankruptcy along with your data in 3 years.
The fact that it’s 9 years old means nothing. I can go out there and buy a decade old cloud storage company and not even announce it’s under new management.
There is no reason to trust perpetual storage offerings. Storage isn’t like a house. Storage costs money every day to maintain. Hard drives need replacements. Bandwidth costs money. Developers have salaries.
I signed up years ago and already got my moneys worth (basically 2 years of Dropbox pays for a lifetime account). I do admit that they could go belly up anytime, but that applies to any company in this day and age. pCloud Play store app alone has 25,917 votes and a portion of their userbase pay monthly/annual to keep that recurring revenue coming in.
Any bargains?
There are other places eg social stack that offer 50 bux for 2 tb lifetime every now and then.
Yup looked at all of those and tried a few. Most of those cloud providers have been around for only a few years or have super slow transfer speeds. I tried one that took HOURS to upload 1Gb. pCloud is pretty popular and I find it syncs (uploads/downloads) fast and has been this way since the beginning. It also has way more features than those cheap lifetime offerings (e.g. Google 2FA/SMS authentication, crypto locker, local LAN syncing, apps covering multiple platforms (Win/Mac/iOS/Android), etc. If you look at all the reviews online, the feature comparison between Dropbox/Pcloud is nearly the same with Pcloud winning in some (e.g phone support)
I also do not think the crowded cloud storage market has space for another lifetime competitor. PCloud achieved mass popularity before they offered lifetime accounts. All the ones on stacksocial are new cloud storage providers which I doubt will last very long.
Thanks been waiting for this, searched for this offer all over the place but all the codes were expired etc.
An extra 100USD off helps, now I just need icedrive.
I've been using the free pCloud offering for a little while (transferred when Dropbox drastically changed it's free conditions). It's OK but it's definitely not as good as Dropbox and others. The worst for me is that the (desktop) client isn't proxy aware
This is a pretty good deal, was after more storage.
Thanks overshopper!
"If you cancel your Lifetime membership and decide to renew it later on, you will no longer be able to take advantage of this promotion."
Why would any cancel anything that lifetime?
Nothing is lifetime.
"pCloud users can pay for a lifetime plan. A lifetime plan is in effect for the duration of the account owner or 99 years, whichever is shorter."
You wouldn't expect your data to be backup probably and shouldn't really store anything important on it.
Dropbox @ $ 15/mo for 99 years = $17,820. (Assuming it remains at $15/mo, highly unlikely)
Imagine if my PCloud account lasted that long ¯(°_o)/¯
Thats also assuming cloud is here to stay at all. Remember before you poo poo the available alternatives Im not inventing the future today here on OzB, just saying 'the cloud' may not stay.
I remember when CD was it, the future, this will never be bettered. Back in the 70s, the futuristic 8 track was killed off by cassettes, that CD in turn ended and thats back when tech moved slow.
Well it's $14.99/mo for 2TB using iCloud (Directed at IOS users obviously). Piece of mind that Apple won't sell your identity and will remain solvent.
If you bought the crypto locker addon for $125, files are encrypted locally/clientside before it gets uploaded so not even pCloud hold the key (Zero-knowledge privacy) but yeah, if you get 10 years out of this deal, it would of already saved you $1447 vs iCloud subscription. The mobile app also has an automatic upload feature for camera rolls/videos, see https://blog.pcloud.com/automatic-upload-explained/
Unfortunately bit too steep. I'm hoping for same deal black Friday with better aus dollar, which they normally do
Missed out regretably last time
I think it is the same deal as last time
"Lifetime" is imposible.
Why think like that?
The service will pay for itself after 2-3 years. The obvious risk is the service shutting down within that period (and you losing your money). It's part of the investment risk.
For example, I paid a "lifetime" for a VPN provider for $50. It's been 3 years ($16 per year) - the longer the service the cheaper the cost. The provider no longer offers lifetime, and now their monthly subscription starts $9 p/m.
If a VPN stops working, you don’t loose anything. If online storage stops working, you loose data.
Also $50 is a lot less to gamble with than $350.
If you loose data when a cloud provider goes belly up then you better reconsider your strategy.
Cloud is a great offsite backup with access from anywhere, it is in no way the only storage for any data.
I personally have 2 lifetime accounts with pcloud for several years (when it was cheaper than today) and it is still going strong. It depends on the provider and on their business model. I definitely got my money back.
I think there are some new features I may not have access to (not sure) but the service is exactly as I bought it years ago. And it has really fast upload and download speeds.
True but I think it's like any other subscription service (minus the high gamble). This reminds me of a saying: if you loose your data, you did not backup. If you loose your backup, it's not a backup.
I store my data both online and offline (3 separate hard drives) in encrypted vaults (using VeraCrypt and Cryptomator).
It's a hassle uploading (fast upload speeds help!). But it works for me in the end.
Lifetime and IT, LOL. It should say …just as long as we exist, and use the current format, providing things dont change including our minds and opportunities.