— update 9/5, 1335hr —
checked my mail after lunch, and cloudHQ‘s CEO Mr. Senad Dizdar has dropped an email to offer an 1-year free trial of cloudHQ’s Premium service. time to explore the service further (:
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today, a new toy arrived:
have bought the acer chromebook 13 to explore the Google Chrome OS ecosystem. an immediate problem would be to gain access to my working files on Dropbox. while files in dropbox could be retrieved, somehow i suspect the access would not be as fast if files were to be retrieved from Google Drive instead.
so, the next thing to do is to mirror the files in-between dropbox and google drive. while i could do it manually through one of my systems’ hard disk. i was wondering if there’s something more clever — a cloud service that works on the cloud storages, in the cloud.
and after some googling, i came upon cloudHQ.
signed up for a free 14-days trial account, and in no time, my files on dropbox started syncing. when i checked back in an hour, was pleasantly surprised to see 2.9GB of files synced. but the syncing stopped, as i have used up the free 2GB bandwidth. in fact, it was exceeded by 0.9GB. posted a tweet to gain another 2GB, and the sync was restarted to continue transfer of the remaining 2GB. hope the free bandwidth is enough to complete the job.
i like cloudHQ for its easy to navigate menu options. one concern that i had was what if there were some glitch, and files were overwritten unintended. i am pleasantly surprised to find cloudHQ offering an option to back up changed files before they were overwritten. activated the option and hope to see it in action.
looks like i have used up my 4GB of free transfer as i am writing this post. hope i would be able to receive the free 1 year trial of the Premium Plan, and i’ll be able to post more about the cloudHQ experience.