Box.net

Basic accounts provide 1GB of online storage space and unlimited bandwidth free of charge, but the maximum file size is 10MB, so you won’t be able to back-up your email to it. The Premium service is better and you get 5GB of space for $4.99 (around £2.60) a month. The maximum file size is raised to 1GB, but there is still a 20GB a month bandwidth limit.

There isn’t any software to download and the service is accessed using a web browser from any PC, though files and folders can be private or made public.

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