Web–based services I pay for
Inspired by Josh’s post, I’ve decided to list (and give a shout out to) the services on the web that I pay for.
- MobileMe (£59/year) for computer, address book, and calendar synchronisation. I pay for MobileMe because I have 2 Macs (work, home) and an iPhone, and it’s by far the easiest way to keep them all synchronised. It’s a shame it costs so much, as I don’t use the email or website publishing aspects of it at all.
- Tuffmail (about £5/month) for IMAP email. I was put onto Tuffmail by Drew. It’s a great service with fantastic spam protection, and since it’s a well–behaved IMAP service it functions much better with desktop apps than Gmail. I’m currently on the fence as to whether I’m going to go back to Google Apps for your domain for email and calendar. For the moment Tuffmail is great, though.
- PRGMR ($48/year) for VPS hosting. I moved away from Slicehost a few months back because I wanted to downscale my hosting costs. PRGMR have been great so far, really solid, and the price is certainly right.
- Amazon Web Services (about £0.03/month) for S3 and CloudFront. I host static assets and some other backup type things there. It’s clearly the cheapest thing on my expenses list.
- Flickr ($25/year) for photo hosting. I’m sure everyone knows what Flickr is by now.
- Last.fm ($36/year). I like Last.fm and what they do, as well as using their service a lot, so I think it’s worth paying for.
Things I used to pay for
- GitHub. I stopped this because I now host my own private Git repos.
- Slicehost for VPS hosting. See above.
Finally, I’d like to mention Dropbox. As a service I think Dropbox is absolutely best of breed—it’s hands down the smoothest, slickest, and most tightly integrated web/desktop hybrid I’ve ever used. I don’t actually pay for it as I don’t have a requirement for their lowest plan yet, but if I did I’d pay it without thinking. Fantastic service (I have a referral link, too), cannot recommend it highly enough. I wish MobileMe was as slick as Dropbox.
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