Cloud-y days

I don't know what "cloud computing" is, but I think I'm doing it. At least I've got a lot of storage capacity out there on the interwebs somewhere. A lot!

Dropbox gives me, free of charge, 2.5 GB.

• My storage limit increases each time someone installs Dropbox on his or her computer by following this link: http://db.tt/TTlA3ya. And no one should be without Dropbox -- not if you've got at least two computers or a computer and a smart phone.

Amazon's Cloud Drive gives me, free of charge, 5 GB. That amount was increased to 20 GB when I bought a digital album (Hilary Hahn, "Paganini & Spohr Concertos").

• Cloud Drive is hyped as a place to store music and play it from anywhere. However, when I uploaded my iTunes library, the playlists didn't transfer. I'm not inclined to recreate all those playlists so I think I'll probably use Cloud Drive to store photos. Also, when I want to transfer files that are to large to be sent via email, I may put them on Cloud Drive so they can be downloaded from there.
  

CloudApp gives me, free of charge, unlimited storage.

• The interface is almost as intuitive as DropBox. However, no more than 10 uploads a day are permitted, and each individual file must be under 25 MB. Moreover, folders stored on CloudApp are all named file(1).zip, file(2).zip, etc. They can be renamed to something meaningful, but that's a separate step. I'll probably use CloudApp mainly to transfer files that are too large to be sent via email. (CloudApp is a Mac application; to use it on Windows, you need FluffyApp.)
  

aDrive gives me, free of charge, 50 GB.

• I signed up for aDrive a long time ago and had forgotten all about it until I started writing this post.

DreamHost gives me, at no additional charge, unlimited storage, with no restrictions on number of uploads/downloads or file size. That's no additional charge over and above the $110 a year we pay for hosting services for the wonderful wife's web site.

Google Docs gives me, free of charge ?? MB. Darned if I can figure out what the limits are. Maybe you'd like to try.