Skydrive FTP access – Backup files online

Windows Live SkyDrive is part of Microsoft’s Windows Live family that allows you to store and share files online. We had mentioned Skydrive 2 years ago when it offered only 1GB of online storage. Today Skydrive gives you 25 GB of storage absolutely free of cost.

Files stored on Skydrive can be made public or shared with other Windows Live users. You can also use the service to host images or other files. The maximum file size supported is 50MB and files can be arranged into folders with description for each. The main drawback for this service is the inability to use a software to upload files. The only way to do it from their website is by using a simple uploader that can handle only a few files at a time.

Skydrive does not support FTP ! Yes, I know the title said FTP but the method below is the closest we can get to FTP. We had written about Gladinet software which creates a virtual drive on your Windows desktop. They seem to have gone the commercial way. So here is another software that can help you.

Glide Gdrive – 30GB online storage for free

Most of us knew about Microsoft’s Skydrive which offered 25GB of free online storage. Skydrive has its restrictions like 50MB max file size and a bad uploader which doesn’t function as we would like it to. The other option was to setup Skydrive FTP like connection that you could use through My Computer to transfer files.

Glide Society has come up with Gdrive which offers 30 GB of free online storage space without any of the restrictions that Skydrive has. It is an advertisment free, cloud computing solution that can be used by upto 6 different people in one account.

12GB free online storage with sync capability

The most popular free online storage service is Skydrive, which offers a whooping 25GB of space for free. Now, who is going to manually upload 25GB worth of files through a web browser ! Skydrive Explorer allowed accessing it like a network drive but even that was slow and unpredictable.

We had written about Glide Gdrive which offers 30GB of online space. Glide is a whole cloud computing package and can be quite interesting if that is what you are looking for. If you just want to store and back files online then the best service we have found till now is iDrive.