Cloud-based backup after Mozy's price change
Monday, February 7, 2011 at 8:44PM 
Mozy effectively let me know that they are no longer interested in my business by raising the price for just maintaining my current backup to $600 per year, up from $50. This is the company, which I trusted with the safety of my data: telling me to pay twelve times as much or they delete my data is not an ethical business practice for me. So better run from Mozy as far away as I can.
There are alternatives out there that maintain the $50/year plan for unlimited backups. And unlimited is the only way to go for somebody who works with photos, videos or music. Carbonite, Backblaze and CrashPlan all look good - for my part I'm trying Carbonite, which works quite well.
But my trust in cloud based services is shaken. If Mozy gives their customers the boot in order to maintain a profitable business, why can the others still provide it. What if they all cap the available storage? What if they go out of business.
Time to think about an alternative for offsite backups.
oliver
In a blog post Carbonite's CEO Dave Friend renewed the commitment to unlimited backups. For me that's good enough for now, even though the resaoning is not completely comforting: it's for the sake of simplicity. I don't want the company loose money with my backup - my data is far too important to rely on a bargain deal. What is the true price for an online backup of, let's say 1 TB? I doubt it's Mozy's $1,000 or so per year. Maybe I cannot afford it, but that's ok - then I need to look for a different solution.