Want To Lose All Your Data?

What would you do if you had a major hard drive crash on your computer?

Do you have another copy of all those treasured family photographs, music and important work documents?

It actually happened to myself once. One day, my computer decided that it didn't want to power up. I had everything backed-up on one external hard drive. The unimaginable happened and that hard drive failed at the same time!
Both hard drives went to the doctors, but it was too late to save them.

Since that day, I have always had everything backed up 'offsite'.
All the family data is on a NAS (Network Attached Storage), which copies itself to a second drive.
But what if the unimaginable happened again and both drives failed at the same time - which can and will happen at some point.
Or what if the NAS gets stolen or just simply damaged from being moved or by a power surge?

I've tried many different companies for offsite backup, and it's a case of paying for what you get. My advice is don't go for the cheapest as they aren't always the best.

I am now with a company called SpiderOak. You can sign up for free to get a fantastic 2gb lifetime storage. However, enter the promotional code 'worldbackupday' or 'reddit' and your free storage will be more than doubled to a whopping 5gb which is plenty of space for most people to keep all those photos and documents safe.

If you want more space, than there is a very easy pricing structure. For up to 100gb, you pay just $10 per month (£6.42 at time of writing) and then $10 for every other 100gb, but if you enter promo code 'reddit' you will pay just $8 per month (£5.14) for every 100gb.

Alternatively, you can pay $100 per year (£64.26).
But, they also have promotional codes for this too. Enter the code 'Spring' to recieve 25% off their annual service, paying just $75 for 100gb of space.

So, how does it work?
You download the SpiderOak client onto as many computers as you wish, choose which files you want backed-up, and leave it to work for itself. The company is also one of a handful that also offer NAS/Mapped Drive/External Hard Drive backup which is rather surprising considering how many people now have a NAS/Mapped Drives and/or External Hard Drives on their computers.

You can find all the features, including how to share your data with others, on the SpiderOak website.

Can you put a price on all your important and irreplaceable data?

It was too late for me, don't let it be too late for you.