Cloud Storage Buzz

Homepage DeskThere are many different threats to keeping your data safe. Hard drive failure, computer theft and disasters like fire and flood can cause you to lose all of your precious personal and work files in an instant. Backups are essential to keep your data safe and thanks to the improvement in cloud storage and backup solutions you have a number of choices to keep your data safe and sound. With so many services available to the consumer it can be difficult to sort through all of the options to find the best for you. Take a look through our reviews and our ratings to help you find the perfect cloud storage or backup solution for you.

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Our 2023 Top 10 Cloud Backup Services

These ten services are our top choices when it comes to cloud backup.

  1. Backblaze – Read our review
  2. CrashPlan – Read our review
  3. Carbonite – Read our review
  4. IDrive – Read our review
  5. SOS Online Backup – Read our review
  6. SpiderOak – Read our review
  7. Acronis – Read our review
  8. SugarSync – Read our review
  9. ElephantDrive – Read our review
  10. Zoolz – Read our review

Latest Posts from the Blog

  • Top 10 Consumer Online Backup Companies for October 2011
    OnlineBackupDeals.com started in January 2009 and in the last two and a half years we have reviewed over 30 online backup services. The industry is constantly changing and expanding in new directions. The explosion of mobile smartphone access and the ability to stream your content to any of your devices is just a few of …
  • Backblaze vs. Carbonite
    Backblaze and Carbonite are two of the easiest online backup services you can use at the moment and are two of our more popular services that we have reviewed. In many ways the services are similar but they are very different in how they perform their backups. Backblaze takes the approach to backup everything on your …
  • How to Backup Your WordPress Blog to Dropbox
    Backing up your desktop is one thing but for many of us that use WordPress we need to keep regular backups of our WordPress database and files in the unfortunate case our WordPress website is hacked, our web host crashes or we somehow delete everything. One tool that many of us use everyday is Dropbox …
  • CrashPlan Mobilize Discount
    CrashPlan recently announced the release of their new mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android and are offering new users a pretty sweet deal. You can sign up and save a nice $7.99 on a one year CrashPlan+ unlimited plan. That works out to a nice 16% discount on the regular price of $49.99. This deal …
  • Dropbox vs. GDrive
    Dropbox with 25 million plus users could soon have another serious contender in the online storage industry and what a competitor, Google. It appears that the mysterious Google GDrive could soon be a reality and it will be offering many of the same functions as Dropbox. Dropbox GDrive * Operating System Windows, Mac& Linux Windows, Mac& Linux Mobile Access Yes Yes Web Access Yes Yes Web Editing No Yes …
  • Google GDrive Coming Soon
    Browsing through my feed reader today I came across this great post on TechCrunch about Google GDrive. Google GDrive seemed to be close to appearing back in 2008/2009 when OnlineBackupDeals.com started and then it mysterously dissappeared. Things have changed considerably since then though for Google. Google Chrome was launched in 2008 and has gained browser market …
  • MyPCBackup Releases Update
    MyPCBackup sent out emails announcing a recent update to their online backup client. The new update should increase the speed of your backups. Here is a copy of the email I recieved. Hi John, I wanted to contact you personally to give you some exciting news. We have launched a major new update to our App which will dramatically …
  • CrashPlan Mobile Apps Released
    CrashPlan today announced the release of both iPhone and Android apps for easy mobile access to all of the files you have backed up to the CrashPlan Central servers. Back in July CrashPlan announced that they had acquired a mobile development company called Recursive Awesome. Not a bad turn around time for developing their mobile apps …
  • Mozy Launches the Mozy Data Shuttle
    The Internet is fast and getting faster every day, but it is still not as fast as shipping a hard drive full of data to Mozy to seed a MozyPro backup for your business. Mozy has launched what they call the “Mozy Data Shuttle”. Details about the new service from Mozy include: Available for MozyPro customers in …
  • Carbonite to Release New Features
    Looks like Carbonite is going to start taking some of the features of Backblaze and CrashPlan seriously. They do not even have these new features available yet but released a news release that they are going to be adding new features. To summarize from the press release here are the new features coming to Carbonite: Full system …