Seems like a good deal for a relatively new cloud storage provider. Reviews say it's fast and the developers are responsive. Also has API documentation available.
$10 credit for the referrer and referee.
That's because people like him have seen that exact scenario play out dozens and dozens of times before.
You win some, you lose more.
With any "lifetime" deal, my rule of thumb is that it has to be a worthwhile deal for 1-2 years of use, and if it lasts beyond that, it's a bonus.
But with cloud storage, there's the added risk of losing your data if the company goes under, so you also need to be mindful of what you store there.
such a pain in the ass when these companies inevitably go under, or renege on their supposed lifetime subscription!
Inserting the same comments about the provider being under no obligation to provide the service or continue business if the service offering becomes unfavourable for them. Zoolz and others have burnt us before.
Servers and storage cost money on a monthly basis and offering a lifetime service is more of a pyramid scheme that will eventually go bust when ongoing costs exceed the revenue from new subscribers.
Add into this the fact it’s a relatively new cloud provider, even ones that have been around a while have either stopped offering the service or gone out of business.
I’m not going to be able to convince anyone who has already made up their mind that lifetime cloud storage is a good idea but for anyone just coming across this please consider carefully how important your data or even the convenience of having access to it at the drop of a hat without requiring a backup and restore to a new provider at the worst possible moment could be.
Remember it’s the lifetime of the product offering or the company, not your lifetime.
You genuinely have no idea mate.
Storage demands exceed over time. If you reach maximum capacity, you have to spend more to expand it. That is the business model behind lifetime plans.
You left a negative rep on the Koofr deal. Koofr has been around for 11 years. Again, you have no clue.
Meanwhile you praised the recent OneDrive deal, a service that literally bans accounts if they upload client-side encrypted data.
@Commodore64 is absolutely spot on.
Like I said, I wasn’t going to convince those who have already made up their mind, but trying to warn the unsuspecting. Storage whether it’s your own servers in a data centre or on AWS etc cost money to run each hour and the data to and from it.
The company can discontinue the offering at their discretion. If you think that a company can collect a one time fee and operate a particular service indefinitely then go ahead and enjoy your bargain..
I was a zoolz customer and it did go bust. It’s not the only one either. If at the end of the day even one or two others approach this deal with more caution then the childish attitude your dismissal of differing opinions with historical evidence would be worth it.
@Commodore64: You're not going to convince anyone with a functioning brain because you refuse to listen. There is a perfectly reasonable business model behind lifetime options, it's called storage expansion.
Just because you were foolish enough to fall for the scam of an ad company doesn't inherently mean all lifetime options are bad. Koofr have been around for ages, have never renegged on a lifetime offer and are one of the most respected cloud storage providers around.
And here you are trying to blanket label them a pyramid scheme because you got conned by a different company. Hilarious.
@jasonxc: Everyone has right to have their view points. Just because you disagree does not mean that you are right.
Please dont engage in personal attacks.
In the public forum choose your words wisely. Give respect and expect respect.
@rs0123: Respect is a two way street.
Why should I afford someone respect when they refuse to read, listen ot acknowledge a very simple point that was explained? Better yet, you continue to peddle the same diatribe on every single lifetime cloud deal including Koofr, a company that has been around for 11 years and counting, and has never cancelled anyone's lifetime deal. If anything, you're being disrespectful towards services like Koofr by continually making these blanket statements.
If you're going to neg and criticize every cloud storage provider for daring to offer a lifetime subscription at a good price because you happened to pick a bad one (muh zoolz!), then you are being disingenuous, bitter and pitiful. Meanwhile the above user praises the Microsoft 365 OneDrive deal, where an even stronger argument could be made that it's unsustainable, and Microsoft will ban your account for uploading encrypted data.
@jasonxc: So much messiness in here.
I wouldn't trust some provider barely anyone has ever heard of. It's not losing access to a "lifetime" deal that bothers me. It's waking up and finding that the company has gone bust overnight and taken TBs of my data with it. If Microsoft decided OneDrive was no longer sustainable, the likelihood of them killing the service overnight and deleting my data is next to nothing, I would get plenty of notice and have ample time to migrate my data to another provider.
There's also the question of security. Encryption is a messy beast. I know Microsoft, Google, AWS, Dropbox etc employ engineers far smarter than I am who live and breathe encryption and they need to get it right for compliance reasons. Some potential fly by night startup, potentially no idea what they're doing…
I don't really care where anyone else puts their data, but seems a bit odd to attack others because they're more cautious of choosing where they stick their data.
There's also the question of security. Encryption is a messy beast. I know Microsoft, Google, AWS, Dropbox etc employ engineers far smarter than I am who live and breathe encryption and they need to get it right for compliance reasons
This is just sad to read.
Without doing any research you are just assuming Microsoft, Google and Dropbox will "encrypt" your data? We are not even talking about dedicated cloud storage providers here; Microsoft and Google are data collection companies by trade. They profit significantly from collecting and selling client data to market research and advertising firms, and you think they have your best interests at heart?
It appears you have misunderstood exactly what I was saying about OneDrive and encryption. Allow me to re-phrase: if you encrypt the files yourself using your own encryption software, then upload them to OneDrive, Microsoft will BAN your account. This is exactly what happened to me; I encryped my music folder, uploaded it to OneDrive, and Microsoft banned the account for "violating terms of service".
Why do you suppose this is? Why do these super intelligent engineers who breathe encryption take issue with a paying user uploading encrypted data? It's almost as if they are a data collection business; users uploading data that Microsoft can't decrypt isn't profitable for their business model.
Any cloud service that doesn't allow you to encrypt your own files is worthless. Relying on a big company to keep your files save is foolish.
I don't know about FileJump (as a matter of fact, even I have my reservations), but Koofr is a reputable cloud storage provider, and more importantly, they explicitly promote client-side encryption. They even publish a free and open source vault app that client-side encrypts data before uploading it to the cloud. This alone makes them exponentially more trustworthy than data collection companies like Microsoft.
I woke up one day to read on Reddit that ZOOLZ is cancelling their lifetime cloud storage without refunds unless you made a recent order.
Long story short, being an 8-month customer doesn’t qualify as a recent order!
Just think about how much I’ve paid for a subscription lasting less than a year !
About as believable as a deal for lifetime supply of petrol for your car. Not practical. Make believe things are not deals.
I'm still of the hope that I'll get the files I saved on Thunderdrive.io. Not falling for that again. Like others have said - be wary of these deals.
I got the folderfort deal and it was a load of crap ended up getting a refund after finding out they were just using some $60 app for their interface, removed the api and fudged around with other settings after signing up.
EDIT: this seems to be using the exact same app as FF
Lifetime? Lifetime of the business (not very long, likely)