Now through March 23rd anyone that downloads the Box.net app and logs in gets upgraded to 50gb of free storage (normally 5gb) and the maximum file upload size gets bumped up to 100mb (normally 25mb). Plus, it is for life and never expires.
Check press release here: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/box_offers_50gb_free_cloud_storage_android_users
Works like a charm. Thanks for posting
very cool man. thanks
Wonderful, thanks
Maybe I'm a little paranoid but does anyone else ever wonder why they are giving away so much free space for you to store your stuff?
I dont use any online storage sites only because all my personal stuff stays in my control. Makes me wonder what I'm missing out on though. What does everyone keep online? MP3s, pictures, "personal" videos, work files?
mk3 said:
Maybe I'm a little paranoid but does anyone else ever wonder why they are giving away so much free space for you to store your stuff?
I dont use any online storage sites only because all my personal stuff stays in my control. Makes me wonder what I'm missing out on though. What does everyone keep online? MP3s, pictures, "personal" videos, work files?
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Because with the 200mb max single file upload limit it is incredibly hard to use up all 50gbs for the average user
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Or so they can suck you in and get you on a paid account. Once you've taken the time to up 50GB of stuff, if you need more space you're more likely to stay where you are than go somewhere else and start over.
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All of that plus they want users. They have services running alongside their storage that brings them revenue. That's why they give it out so freely, they cleared out quite a bit of the normal overhead costs and can afford to grow via promotions as an additional service of a phone. I got my 50 gigs last year when they welcomed LG users, all LG users.
Got on there with my Optimus, haven't used it since day one. I'd just been using Spider-oak, I don't like streaming content but it does offer sharing content which I do need in a service. It did exactly wha I want with a high level of security. Love them. I'm a fringe user though, dropbox, box.net, etc will be the best bet for most users.
kamsahamnida amigo!!
I love to use this App
It's very easy to share file
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As a Nexus One user, the modding community on XDA is probably the single greatest thing on the planet when it comes to my Nexus One, without you guys, the entire Android platform wouldn't be as great as it is now.
In an effort to give back to the community, and help other nexus users, I'm here to offer free, unlimited (virtually) hosting to any and all nexus one developers. Gone should be the 4shared and mediafire links, non direct downloads will hopefully be a thing of the past! I have spare space and bandwidth, and I want to use it to help people.
If you are a Nexus, or even just an Android, developer, please, send me a PM and I can give you a subdomain of my facepwn.com, as much bandwidth as you can use, and plenty of space. This isn't only file hosting, I'll happily give you MySQL databases, shell access, anything (within reason) that you need. Completely free, on my VPS, not shared hosting.
Just drop me a PM and I can set your hosting up today/tomorrow.
Wow, thanks bro. =)
Nice work thanks bro!!!
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That is way cool. Let's hope you get a lot of requests from Devs, because I can't stand rapidshare and mediafire downloads.
Way to give back, man. Cheers.
Just want to say I've got some hosting too I can spread around
Not VPS, just a standard bluehost hosting package - but I do have unlimited bandwidth/storage etc paid through the next 11 months and am not currently using for anything.
I was thinking about making a similar post but ya beat me to it
I'll be glad to help out also, even if just as a secondary mirror. Just hit me up w/ a PM or email! Wildmonks is currently using it as a mirror and it beats the hell out of rapidshare etc
same here. we'll give you ftp access at androidoverdrive.com
just drop a line and we can hook you up. we have forums too and since the staff is knowledgeable we can help provide support for your rom as well
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Not VPS, just a standard bluehost hosting package - but I do have unlimited bandwidth/storage
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They don't allow file storage/sharing like this.
Ryjabo said:
They don't allow file storage/sharing like this.
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Hm, I'll have to check my ToS again, maybe shoot them an e-mail. I was under the impression it wouldn't be an issue.
Edit: Ah, I see the "Backup Storage" clause. Seems easy enough to workaround as it's not being used explicitly for that. I do have a site in the works up on the main domain, could even put some type of placeholder up if that's all that's needed to say it's not being used "exclusively and explicitly" for backup storage.
OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
cool! good job! may God always bless you!
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OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
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OMG, how many more ingrates do we need? This isn't anything to do with being helpful so shouldn't a Mod move this to garbage?
You apparently don't understand. Take CM6-a1 for instance, I provided a mirror for just the N1 version on my own hosting to help out, and I served over 1Tb of bandwidth on a single file within a week. Now extrapolate that over all the Roms out there, and you're looking at 100s of terabytes of bandwidth a month. Spreading that load out over multiple servers, data centers and countries keeps speeds high, costs per person lower and allows for continual service (aka, redundancy).
So, kindly, shut it if you dont understand or appreciate why someone offering a service such as this is nice.
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Hm, I'll have to check my ToS again, maybe shoot them an e-mail. I was under the impression it wouldn't be an issue.
Edit: Ah, I see the "Backup Storage" clause. Seems easy enough to workaround as it's not being used explicitly for that. I do have a site in the works up on the main domain, could even put some type of placeholder up if that's all that's needed to say it's not being used "exclusively and explicitly" for backup storage.
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Too much traffic to a download and they wont like it.
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Does anyone ever torrent this stuff? I'd download crap and leave the torrents going 24/7 if someone had an android tracker.
If I knew anything about trackers and had time, I'd take up some of the offers for free hosting and start one, but I don't have either time or expertise...
nopenope said:
OMG how many more of these do we need? This also isn't anything to do with Development so shouldn't a Mod move this to general?
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Enough to get rid of all of the stupid mediafire, rapidshare and 4shared links. I hate using those sites, and would rather see everyone be able to give direct links I can easily download on my phone, and that are fast.
Way cool Man!!!! Thanks for this!!!!
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.box.android
Box.com
Its similar to dropbox but I've been happier with Box. Plus you get 50gb free if you sign up by March 23!!! Don't hesitate!
Ya, I signed up for Box as it seemed like a good idea at the time. Turns out there are a few caveats to their 50GB.
1. There's no desktop client for personal accounts. You have to sign up for the business or enterprise level starting at $15 a month. Without a desktop client, uploading files one at a time via the web or phone makes the 50GB superfluous.
2. There's a 10GB monthly bandwidth limit. So, even if you COULD spend the time to upload 50GB in files one at a time it would take you 5 months to get them all uploaded. This is assuming you never download any since that presumably goes against your bandwidth number too.
So, it sounded good at the beginning. Now... not so much.
In short, it's not like getting Dropbox with 50GB of space.
You can upload multiple files at a time with this app and you can easily get on the site from your computer to manage files. Of course some people aren't going to think this is anywhere near dropbox but it works well for me and could work well for others. Worth a try if you ask me.
I am now personally hosting the site but may have lost the original domain name. All Imperium services and ROMUpdater servers are now gone and the new site is very limited. I now no longer personally host any files and have found a third party service that pays me per download. The following projects are now dead:
WebTop enable devices TabletDock
WebTop enable devices CarPC
Remote Access ROM Development Service
Anything Galaxy Tab
Anything GS2
Anything G2X
Anything not Photon related
The Martian Imperium site is now closed and in the process of being purged. In all likelihood there will be no new website and unless somebody here has a copy, all the files will disappear as well. iPage was the cheapest host I could find for the bandwidth users were pulling (500GB-1TB a month and over 1000 DL's a day). In addition to my own work, I was hosting all the SBF's, some high demand older ROMs and kernels, root-unlock-relock and other Photon related files.
I looked at alternate places to host but Mediafire would cost almost ten times as much and dropbox almost three times as much just to host files. I even covered the site in ads to help cover expenses with no real success. The core factor was that my wife and I went over the receipts yesterday and I have spent something like $1000USD this year in equipment and hosting. If I had received a $0.01 donation (after paypal takes it's cut) for every unique download I actually would have made money and been able to continue development. There were many things I had planned to release this year but as it stands I am leaving development and guide writing.
To those that have donated to me in the past I'm very sorry about this and will return your donations if you would like.
Thank you for the explanation, and all you've done. The sad fact is most don't send donations. Over the years that I've been on xda, I've only done it a half dozen times. I'm sure I should have done it more. I know development won't get you rich, but it shouldn't cost you. Thanks again for all you've done. Webtop and imperium are the ****!
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What started all this was a "We need to have a talk" email from my host. They had been very forgiving about the bandwidth usage but had enough and it was upgrade to business class service or leave. Meanwhile this is what I was working....
Remote Access Development Services. It's only a proof of concept at this stage but it's free to any dev that wants it.
I actually might be able to help you out if you think you can keep it below a TB a month.
Let me know and Ill go back and check my usage to see how much bandwidth I have left over. I think I get 2 TB a month and I dont believe Im quite using one.
I can help you out in the hosting department. My hosting is unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth per month. I use IX web hosting. If you would like, I'll throw your files up on my site so that anyone that needs them and get them... I can upload them and you can hotlink to them...
Let me know... I'm not able to donate $$$ (due to the fact that i don't have much myself) but I can donate space and bandwidth. The Photon 4G needs good developers, and I'd hate to see you go...
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I can help you out in the hosting department. My hosting is unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth per month. I use IX web hosting. If you would like, I'll throw your files up on my site so that anyone that needs them and get them... I can upload them and you can hotlink to them...
Let me know... I'm not able to donate $$$ (due to the fact that i don't have much myself) but I can donate space and bandwidth. The Photon 4G needs good developers, and I'd hate to see you go...
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Most unlimited hosting plans. Will freak out after a tb a month.
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Just trying to help out...
But, you might want to check out there policies. There unlimited is truly unlimited... according to their TOS. That's why I went with them. Currently I have 5.91GB of used space and 518GB of bandwidth used this month... about average for me...
That's some BS right there. I've never used any of your work, but I've seen you around. (I have an Electrify, I can't use a lot of Photon stuff. Plus it's locked... 2.3.5.)
Seems like there should be a way, in this day and age, to croudsource the files somehow. Multiple dropboxes/sugar syncs/box.nets, or a torrent with a bunch of us hosting all the files. In fact if you can get just a few people with fast Internet at home to leave their BitTorrent client running, seeding your torrent, people could get that just as fast as they could from direct download. Linux uses BitTorrent, couldn't you do something like that? Hell, I only have 1.5MBit DSL, which lets me upload about 30kB/s before web browsing starts to lag, but I'd help seed. I don't have a Photon, but Electrify development kind of depends on Photon development.
Best of luck to you.
To All,
I appreciate the offers for file hosting but as the number of projects increase so would the bandwidth. The main source for the, to be honest, leeching is from locations outside xda. For example, China is responsible for a very large portion of it and have found hotlinking of my files in a couple of sites.
I was able to sell of some things today and have buyers lined up for others. I may be able to continue but at a much slower rate and will have to kill a number of pending projects.
I have found a possible solution but have had to kill a number of services. It also involves a very limited access website and file hosting has been moved to a service suggest to me by one of my users in Russia. I don't know how well this will work out as I will have to remove the update service from all future releases.
Please try the new site and let me know if it works. For now it's just a copy of the old site with a bunch of broken stuff. Unlike the old site, live site updates are now impossible and can only handle a limited number of connections.
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That's some BS right there. I've never used any of your work, but I've seen you around. (I have an Electrify, I can't use a lot of Photon stuff. Plus it's locked... 2.3.5.)
Seems like there should be a way, in this day and age, to croudsource the files somehow. Multiple dropboxes/sugar syncs/box.nets, or a torrent with a bunch of us hosting all the files. In fact if you can get just a few people with fast Internet at home to leave their BitTorrent client running, seeding your torrent, people could get that just as fast as they could from direct download. Linux uses BitTorrent, couldn't you do something like that? Hell, I only have 1.5MBit DSL, which lets me upload about 30kB/s before web browsing starts to lag, but I'd help seed. I don't have a Photon, but Electrify development kind of depends on Photon development.
Best of luck to you.
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You can say it's BS but there were a lot of things on the site the most free services do not allow. In addition to the site itself it had live support chat, a forum, an update server (think ROM Manager) as well as the entire Photon file archive and my own projects.
Multiple file hosting accounts makes file management a job unto itself. Torrents have been tried before with very little success.
Like I mentioned above, I have found a possible solution that may or may not work out but have had to kill a number of services.
I will be more than happy to do something as simple as setting you up a ftp server. You would have full access to your personal "ftp folder" on my hosting server... If interested, PM me and ill set it up...
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Lokifish Marz said:
To those that have donated to me in the past I'm very sorry about this and will return your donations if you would like.
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I appreciate the offer but would consider it boorish to take you up on it.
Frankly, I think it's unnecessary for you to even consider making the offer, but not surprising given the nature of your efforts to help and support this community.
Let's just say that this is taking the concept of giving back to others a little too far.
I start my new job this Monday and once my money flows, I'll start donating to those who deserve it, i feel bad but yea glad to see your still around.
i have most of the same files (old ones at least) hosted on holylivingfuck.com in my sig, i do however have a new host (seperate from hlf) which ill be uploaidng all my copies onto as well. if you could be so kind as to update the guide with the links ill be sending you that would be awesome
trying to make sure that we dont have any lost files due to domains etc
Lokifish Marz said:
I am now personally hosting the site but may have lost the original domain name. All Imperium services and ROMUpdater servers are now gone and the new site is very limited. I now no longer personally host any files and have found a third party service that pays me per download. The following projects are now dead:
WebTop enable devices TabletDock
WebTop enable devices CarPC
Remote Access ROM Development Service
Anything Galaxy Tab
Anything GS2
Anything G2X
Anything not Photon related
The Martian Imperium site is now closed and in the process of being purged. In all likelihood there will be no new website and unless somebody here has a copy, all the files will disappear as well. iPage was the cheapest host I could find for the bandwidth users were pulling (500GB-1TB a month and over 1000 DL's a day). In addition to my own work, I was hosting all the SBF's, some high demand older ROMs and kernels, root-unlock-relock and other Photon related files.
I looked at alternate places to host but Mediafire would cost almost ten times as much and dropbox almost three times as much just to host files. I even covered the site in ads to help cover expenses with no real success. The core factor was that my wife and I went over the receipts yesterday and I have spent something like $1000USD this year in equipment and hosting. If I had received a $0.01 donation (after paypal takes it's cut) for every unique download I actually would have made money and been able to continue development. There were many things I had planned to release this year but as it stands I am leaving development and guide writing.
To those that have donated to me in the past I'm very sorry about this and will return your donations if you would like.
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Damn unfortunate for the Photon community if we lose you. Definitely one of the very helpful devs out there. I do understand what you mean...lots of people like to use the work...not many understand what it costs you in time and energy, not to mention cash money. Best of luck to ya!
there is a promotion for G2 users.
get box com from play store, sign up from G2. earn 50gb free storage.
thanks reviews are not to great: file size upload limit and no linux client.
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Have had a couple of free 50gb accounts from other devices, simple enough to use. File limits are 250mb per file aren't they? I would presume the very vast majority of users don't have a lot of files over that size on their phone to backup.
mgolder said:
Have had a couple of free 50gb accounts from other devices, simple enough to use. File limits are 250mb per file aren't they? I would presume the very vast majority of users don't have a lot of files over that size on their phone to backup.
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It works out perfectly for backing up via Titanium.
250mb,thats allright. I guess the feedback is positive.
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A year or so ago they gave this promotion to all new users so I signed up. The service is alright. I don't use it for much, but DL speeds are solid, and the only issues are the obvious "Free account" restrictions. Which, honestly, I can't really complain about because it's free and I knew going in.
It's not a bad service. Client works fine. I've used it w/ both OSX and Windows apps. No problems.
I rarely use it, though. Ever since Google upgraded my Drive / email account to 25GB I tend to use that.
I got multiple 50GB box accounts with 1GB single file upload limit. Yeah, Box is definitely good.
Just signed up and got my 50gb. You can never have too much free storage.
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Currently using dropbox which i love but as of Jan 11th i have to start paying and i find it a bit pricey at 120 a yr... can anyone recommend another cloud? Something i can use on my phone...mainly pics and music
Depending on how much space you need. I use Box, which gave me 50gig
Google Drive. 1.99 a month for 100 gigs.
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Depending on how much space you need. I use Box, which gave me 50gig
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I have more than 50..but thanks
MurdockBaracus said:
Google Drive. 1.99 a month for 100 gigs.
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Cool..that should be enough and good price too..thanks
I use, drop box (sorta I quit using them as much since they like to suspend my account due to traffic), copy is my personal favorite and racked up a ton of free space with invites back when they first started and drive.
Or you can say screw all services and have your own cloud with one of these, which is what I've been thinking about grabbing
http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-WDBCTL0020HWT-2TB-Personal-Storage/dp/B00EVVGAFI
I just read that Mega gives you 50Gb for free bro.