And so I’m thinking about buying it. It comes to roughly CZK 2,280 (CZK 190/month) if you pay yearly, or CZK 230 if you pay monthly – that’s for the cheapest paid plan, Rain. And what do I like about it the most? Of course, the biggest plus is the unlimited number of uploads, that’s obvious to everyone.
It’s only the middle of the month and I already have just 2 uploads left out of 10. But I also really like the option of keeping uploads stored on cl.ly while their URI addresses look like they’re hosted on my site. I just don’t know yet whether to put it on the sunamo.cz domain, sunamo.cz or blog.sunamo.cz :D.
I don’t know what the single-upload limit is for people on the Mist plan (free), but on the Rain plan the limit is 500MB, and I couldn’t upload that over our internet connection even in 24 hours :D. The option to record video of your screen is great too. But I’m also thinking about something similar that would instead store the files on my own server, for example via FTP.
Sunamo.cz/net is ruled out for now, because I’m already using about 1.5GB of 5GB there, and once the photo gallery takes off, even that might be hopelessly little and I’d have to pay thousands extra for a higher web hosting plan. But on my blog blog.sunamo.cz I’m using only 135MB of 10GB, and it cost me CZK 610 for 3 years including VAT and all fees. And I already have plenty of songs, images and everything else there.
Unfortunately I can’t take advantage of this discount right now, because my web hosting is still prepaid for 2 full years, but who knows, maybe there’ll be a similar deal when it’s about to expire :-). So all that’s left is to start loving PHP, write some photo gallery in it, and then also a C# program for quickly uploading to it.
Although I’m not so sure about PHP, I’ve always given up on it – good old ASP.NET. On the other hand, learning PHP well would definitely be a plus, if only it didn’t turn my hair gray. It will be on my own domain, videos maybe sometime later, uploads will be unlimited and I’ll decide the size limit myself.
Of course, I’m also toying with the idea of slightly extending my photo gallery on sunamo.cz. From a programmer’s point of view that would be ideal – ASP.NET and just a few things to add. Do you know how long it would take me to write the login system I have on sunamo.cz in PHP? 🙂
Having written all this, I’ve decided to uninstall CloudApp and go try to extend that photo gallery and, above all, write that C# screenshot program – extending the photo gallery will be a piece of cake, the problem will be the C# program.
And I’ll keep the blog on endora.cz for another 2 years, and by then I hope to have my own blogging system written in ASP.NET. 🙂