13 Oct 2008

October 12, 2008

By Scott Lowe

KeepVault, a great online backup service I recommended last month, has seriously raised their prices without informing existing users. Although their old pricing was unsustainable and needed adjusting, poor communication from the company will probably result in customer defection.

Last month, I wrote about my own Windows Home Server installation on which I rely completely for most of my work. Everything–and I mean everything–is stored on my WHS machine. Book chapters, articles, ISO images I need access to from anywhere, my entire iTunes library… it’s all there. About the only thing I don’t store on my home server are my VMware virtual machine files.

To protect my data, I use WHS’ volume duplication feature, which protects me against local hard drive failure. To protect my data from more catastrophic failure–perhaps my house burns down–I use a service from Proxure called KeepVault. In my September 14 posting, I indicated that I’m very pleased with the KeepVault service. At the time of the writing, the service was listed at $199/year for unlimited storage, but Proxure was running a special that gave people the same service for only $99/year. I now need to make a correction on some newly outdated information that I wrote in that blog posting.

Imagine my surprise tonight when I was at the KeepVault site looking for something and I stumbled across their new …

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