SpiderOak Scales Back Refer a Friend Program

SpiderOak had one of the most generous referral programs there was, offering up to 50GB of free space. Recently on the SpiderOak blog however they have announced that the SpiderOak referral program has been scaled back to only 10GB.

They give three reasons on the blog:

1. People abusing the program and creating a massive number of dummy accounts.
2. Storage prices have increased due to floods in Thailand.
3. A Black market selling of lifetime SpiderOak 50 GB storage accounts.

Effective March 8, 2012 the SpiderOak refer a friend program has a limit of 10GB, which is the same as the Dropbox referral program, although it is possible to get more space with Dropbox occasionally.

There are still other file storage and sync services that offer generous refer a friend programs like SugarSync and Mozy, both of which do not currently have a limit.

Too bad to hear about the SpiderOak changes, it was one of the best refer a friend programs available.

If you would like to know more about SpiderOak and some of its features? Be sure to read our SpiderOak review for more details of the SpiderOak online backup service.

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