DrivePop Gone?

[indiggio 0]

Logged into my WHS console and up popped a dialog asking me to log into DrivePop.

 

After several attempts, no joy.

 

Took to twitter and see many are also in the same boat.

Those of us that bought a lifetime service got ripped off.

 

Contacted LiveDrive who just forwards me back to DrivePop.

 

Live & learn, crash & burn...

 

[jmwills 284]

It sure is.  I've been getting emails from them for about a month saying that access was being pulled.  In other words, so is your content.  I got one last message from them on Saturday saying there was about 12 hours left.

[indiggio 0]

Guess the business model didn't hold water...

[jmwills 284]

Yea, free or nearly free usually doesn't pay much.

[ikon 438]

Yeah, unfortunately, I was suspicious that this wouldn't be viable. Fortunately, data caps from my ISP made it easy for me to avoid trying DrivePop.

[indiggio 0]

What are others using as a resonable alternative for cloud backup?

[jmwills 284]

How much data?

[indiggio 0]

Less than a TB.

[jmwills 284]

"Critical" data?

[indiggio 0]

Not so critical that it couldn't be replaced with another copy that I have elsewhere (personal images, videos).

Other stuff can be recovered (music), but wouldn't be fun.