Their slogan is :
Host your life there!
Upload up to 200 GB and share it with your friends.
Reading their Terms & Conditions I noticed a few points that require caution:
"We reserve the right to disable direct linking on user accounts that are using excessive bandwidth or otherwise abusing the system."
"- Using a dedicated server is not allowed for download purpose."
"- Using an external tool for our Uptostream streaming service (eg Kodi) is strictly prohibited. We reserve the right to delete without notice all the files present on your account if a breach of this rule were to be observed. Only normal use of our player is authorized."
"- Storage is unlimited for our premium members. However, it is necessary to limit the cold storage (= files never downloaded) when you exceed several TB. Any abuse (example: 10TB stored and no files downloaded for weeks) caused the automatic sending of a warning e-mail inviting to justify this extreme use case. In case of no answer to this email, some not downloaded files could be deleted."
Did you mount it with rclone? If yes, can you stream of the mounted drive without problems?
Thanks!
Not a problem at all. Due to poor planning my backups are mostly just random loose files. Even if a local 12tb hdd dies, I don't need to restore it necessarily. I would just restore any files I actually needed.
Now that would be dangerous, as I'd end up violating any good sense. But the files trusted to the cloud are files I do not actually anticipate ever needing again.
I have a local storage capacity of ~85tb and a cloud consumption of ~135tb. These don't match because some files aren't worth the extra redundancy in my mind.
edit: This same poor planning is why amazon glacier might not be an ideal fit.
I got curious about this (uptobox), so I started looking into it. First thing I did was check (English) Wikipedia. It doesn't have its own page, but it does show up on one (and apparently only one) page: List of notorious markets. That didn't sound very promising with regards to legitimacy, but it definitely sounded interesting! So, I looked further.
It is listed on that page because it is listed in both the 2018 and the 2019 versions of a US government publication, "Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy". It doesn't seem to be in any of the 2020-2022 versions, at least not explicitly. Anyway, here's what they had to say about uptobox:
2018:
UPTOBOX DOT COM
As an additional example of a direct download cyberlocker, uptobox dot com also allows
streaming and embedding through its site, uptostream dot com. The site is reportedly widely used
among pirate sites in Europe to generate revenue based on advertisements on their own sites with
embedding or by linking downloads through pay networks such as adf.ly. The site reportedly
incentivizes users to upload large files, such as copyrighted television episodes and movies, and
offers a referral/reseller program to attract more users. According to right holders, uptobox dot com
is owned by a Swiss company and is hosted in France. It uses a proxy mask to allegedly curb
right holders’ ability to identify its precise host.
2019:
UPTOBOX
Nominated as uptobox dot com. Related sites include uptostream dot com. Reportedly hosted in France, but utilizes
reverse proxy services to mask the location of its hosting servers.UpToBox is a direct download cyberlocker that also allows streaming and embedding.
Pirate sites in Europe reportedly embed infringing content from UpToBox on their own websites
to generate advertising revenue or generate revenue by linking to pirated content on UpToBox
through pay networks such as adf.ly. The site claims to incentivize users to upload large files,
such as copyright-protected movies and TV shows, and offers a referral/reseller program to
attract more users.
Also does not seem many people like it...
How much data do you have stored on Uptobox?
Although you may have a different experience, I'd advise staying away from Box. For the past couple months, I have attempted to utilize Box as a cloud storage service for about ten users but as their services began to fail, it was made even more apparent how grotesquely incapable their staff is.
Along with everyone else we began to get 429 errors, upload failures, and the bandwidth limitation email. After speaking with multiple layers of support, we still don't have any answers, but have instead been advised to simply cancel our services.
But it is only $25 so might as well give it a try, I guess?
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Agreed. I can understand the fair use limits but their lack of monitoring tools combined with support being entirely unhelpful when you ask them for assistance in clarifying the limits and just telling you to straight up cancel is pretty unprofessional especially for those users on the enterprise plan.
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I have an open BOX slot if anyone is interested.
DONT USE UPTOBOX to store your files! Its a normal filesharing site if you store severral terrabyte without generating download your files will be deleted or you got kicked. This is confirmend 10000x times because this hoster is popular in german warez scene.
I think the bandwidth limits is only for uploading. Downloading shouldn't be a problem right? At least that's how I read their terms, that downloading from your own account with your own account (not links), doesn't count towards any bandwidth limits.
As per their FUP:
Download/upload Ingress/Egress Bandwidth*: Files uploaded and downloaded (applies to the user who uploads and/or downloads the file).
- 1TB per user per month for both Box Business and Individual plans
Under this one about Bandwidth it says this though:
Activities that affect bandwidth and monthly limitations include:
Downloads from a shared link . Limitations:
- Individual free account: 10 GB per month*
- Personal Pro and Box Business Accounts: 2 TB per calendar month, per person*
- Bandwidth counts against the usage of the file owner, regardless of whether the owner creates the shared link.
- All downloads from any public shared link count towards the bandwidth limit. You can reach this limit quickly, depending on several factors:
- the size of the files being shared
- the frequency of downloads,
- file format (GIF, FLV, MP3, and so on)
However, this limit does not apply to:
- Downloads from within an account by the content owner
- Downloads by collaborators while logged in to their account
It says the same..
You did not post all... but only part about shared links, you omitted part about uploads and downloads by an individual:)
Box generally measures bandwidth usage based on two primary criteria:
1. downloads from open access shared links 2. uploads and downloads by an individual
Activities that affect bandwidth and monthly limitations include:
Downloads from a shared link . Limitations:
... ... ...
Files uploaded and downloaded. Limitation:
1TB per user per month for all plans (based on the person who uploads and/or downloads the file).
It can not be more clear. For me using Box for storage is out of the question. They are collaboration service not cloud storage. So I do understand why they try to protect themselves from people misusing their services
Oh I asked specifically about this, and was sent that exact same thing I posted as the answer, albeit not a Yes or No to the question.
So answer is No... Downloads are problem too.
Well my account is locked from Uploading due to going over the FUP, but downloading right now is no problem at all.
What happens is that they eventually enact an api rate limit, which blocks both uploading and downloading causing 429 errors for both effectively rendering rclone useless.
One of the premium features mentions Deleting of Files, Never. Where as Registered and Free users are deleted after 90 or 30 days after last download. I'm intrigued if anyone has used them before, specifically UptoStream.com